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Tacos 2025

June 2 - June 8 2025

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VEGAN VEGETARIAN GF

Available Tacos for 2025

Taco Pedaler

Carne asada taco, house made marinade, topped with pico, cilantro, and a side of radish and lime.

Dietary Options:
meat
Fabos Tacos Cart

A tasty alpastoro taco & campechano taco

Dietary Options:
meat
Tacos Fita

Asada taco: char grilled asada meat grilled to perfection topped off with shredded cabbage zesty pickled onion and cilantro

Dietary Options:
meat
Tacovore Portland

Super-cauli-fragilisticexpialidocious: A crispy fried cauliflower taco, with cabbage slaw, escabeche, and lemon-herby cashew crema. Practically perfect pescado: A blackened rockfish taco, with local mixed greens, cucumber-avocado pico, poblano crema, and lemon. All gluten free.

Dietary Options:
gf, vegetarian
The Rambler

Two corn tortilla adobo braised brisket, pickled red onion, watermelon radish, fried shallot, crema & cilantro.

Dietary Options:
meat
Toasted S'mores Bar

A tasty sweet taco made out of graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows

Dietary Options:
vegetarian
Speed-O-Cappuccino

Fried "fish" taco with mango salsa, zesty slaw, and cilantro lime crema served on a corn tortilla.

Dietary Options:
vegetarian
Betos Taqueria

Gringa taco, with chicharron prensado in a cheese tortilla. Has fresh pineapple, avocado and pico.

Dietary Options:
meat
Bar Cala

Taco de camarón (shrimp taco) Oaxacan-style sautéed shrimp on a handmade tortilla, finished with melted cheese, onion, and fresh cilantro. Simple, bold, and full of flavor.

Dietary Options:
meat
Saint Burrito

A carne asada pineapple taco.

Dietary Options:
meat
Garcia's Taqueria at MLK Street Food

A corn tortilla with asada (steak), cactus, pico de gallo salsa, and limes.

Dietary Options:
meat
Afterlife

Surfer tacos: A vegan plant-based meat & bean filling with a special blend of spices, topped with lettuce for the perfect crunchy taco. Served with a tomatillo sauce.

Dietary Options:
vegan
Radio Room

A beef birria tacos with consommé.

Dietary Options:
meat
Sabor Autentico

Carne asada street taco, with grilled onions, fresh onion, cilantro and avocado salsa.

Dietary Options:
meat
The Smokin' Oak Barbeque

Slow smoked chopped brisket, with a chimichurri sauce, on a roasted tortilla.

Dietary Options:
meat
Mis Tacones

Shiitake mushroom chicharrón fried shiitake mushrooms, marinated in a savory and smoky sauce, with fresh guacamole and cilantro.

Dietary Options:
vegan
Makulit

Choco taco: Pork dinuguan topped with sour cream, cilantro, cotija, and pickled red onion.

Dietary Options:
meat
Triple Lindy

Carne asada tacos w/ Veracruz style salsa macha. (The salsa also has peanuts in it.)

Dietary Options:
meat
Smash & Grab

Smash burger taco | Crispy smash burger beef patty, American cheese, special sauce, onion, tomato, and shredded lettuce. Served with a side of ranch.

Dietary Options:
meat
La Patroncita

A carne asada taco.

Dietary Options:
meat
Birdies PDX

A 6" corn tortilla with an egg scrambled with peppers & onion, sausage, shaved red onion, cilantro and a side of pico de gallo

Dietary Options:
meat
The Shawarma Truck

A chicken shawarma taco, with lettuce, tomatoes, garlic sauce

Dietary Options:
meat
Tacos El Trompo

Quesabirria taco: It's a shredded beef with melted cheese inside a corn tortilla topped with cilantro, onions and pickled purple onions with a side of consommé that is the soup the beef was slow cooked in.

Dietary Options:
meat
EL JARRITO TAQUERIA

Carnitas tacos, two per $5 served with red onions, cilantro, limes and a special salsa. Michoacan style carnitas. (Pork cooked in lard with beer, coke, orange and bay leaves) using pork leg, ribs and skin.

Dietary Options:
meat
Migration Brewing - Glisan

"Papas y panza" (potatoes and belly). Two tacos, one with crispy pork belly marinaded in mo-haze-ic, and another stuffed with potato mixed with tomato, cilantro, radish, onion, and jalapeño. Both are melted with mozzarella cheese.

Dietary Options:
meat
Migration Brewing x Papas Frita - Williams

La taco taqueria bell doble loco taco. Their homage to the original double decker taco from San Francisco's La Taqueria and its imitator from Taco Bell. Soft tortilla layered with queso, hard taco shell, red beans, sour cream, ground beef, and Nicaraguan ensalada.

Dietary Options:
meat
Nom Nom Wings

Laos petite tender barbacoa taco with Pendleton beef petite tender, onion, cilantro, corn tortilla, Laos salsa

Dietary Options:
meat
Street Heat

The search for the perfect carne asada taco is over - no gristle, bursts of flavor, just pure steak perfection. Carne asada one for $5. Carnitas, al pastor, chicken, jackfruit (vegan) 2 for $5.

Dietary Options:
meat, vegan
Wow Cow

Wow cow taco "Waco taco" 100-yr-old recipe bulgogi beef, mozzarella cheese, kimchi, sweet grilled corn, your choice of house verde or roja

Dietary Options:
meat
NorthPort

A tingate un taco (chicken tinga, crisp romaine, crema, salsa verde, queso fresco) on a crispy tortilla.

Dietary Options:
meat
Papi Chulos

The el taco rey: Comes with carnitas, cactus salad, guacamole, and salsa martajada.

Dietary Options:
meat
Marky D's

A hot cheeto taco supreme/ burger meat madness street taco.

Dietary Options:
meat
CoKiea's Kitchen

There are several taco options: 1.) Jackfruit tacos with pineapple salsa. 2.) Jackfruit birria tacos. 3.) Mushroom tacos. 4.) BBQ jackfruit tacos. 5.) Jackfruit tacos with onions and cilantro and 6.) Tofu tacos

Dietary Options:
vegan
Mosaic Taphouse (Chem Gio)

Vietnamese style tacos using a bánh xèo (savory crepe shell) with pork and shrimp, with blanched bean sprouts mung beans and lettuce with Vietnamese perilla mix. Will also have a vegan version which is with seasoned impossible meat and braised coconut shavings. They also have a bò kho birria tacos special on Tuesday, which is a combination of a Vietnamese beef stew and birria recipe combined. Which will be a smaller taco with the same shell w/ cheese or slow cooked beef topped with onions and cilantro.

Dietary Options:
meat, vegan
The Minibar PDX

The bright array achiote taco - achiote chicken, tomatillo lime slaw, with fresh guacamole.

Dietary Options:
meat
La Chingada

Taco gobernador - A coastal masterpiece, a luxurious fusion of land and sea. Plump, juicy shrimp are sautéed with poblano pepper, onions, and a touch of garlic, then folded into a golden, slightly crispy tortilla layered with melted cheese that pulls with every bite. The shrimp are kissed with smoky chipotle or a splash of lime. Finished with fresh cilantro and a drizzle of creamy salsa and pickled onions

Dietary Options:
meat
Los Plebles Tacos

More info coming soon!

Dietary Options:
meat