PDX Food Cart Review: Garden State

Meatball hero, 'nuff said. Garden State was the latest in our food cart tour of the Portland metro area. Let me preface this by saying that I am not a sandwich person. I mean, yeah, I pretty much lived on peanut butter and sandwiches growing up but anything other than that, excluding grilled cheese, was not on the menu of acceptable foods I would eat. Many years later we found ourselves at Garden State. Take a nice crusty piece of buttery bread, fill it with Highland Oak beef, mozzarella, and marinara, and you've got the sandwich of the century. While Henry did not partake of the food this trip, he previously enjoyed the hero and the arancine (risotto rice balls seasoned with saffron and stuffed with cheese dipped in breadcrumbs and fried). Pros include the great tasting food. That we couldn't easily walk with the food to a park would have been a con if there hadn't been plenty of available seating. The only real downer is that the cart doesn't open until 11:30 a.m., which meant Henry was rapidly approaching the near nap meltdown by the time we got our food. There isn't footage of Henry not eating but there is a little video of the kids playing at the park before we hit the cart for lunch. Henry "Danger" Gilroy can be seen not once but twice(!) nearly falling off the big red slide at the Sellwood Park. A slide that he has been hesitant to attempt on his own until he saw his lil' friend, Tevia, shoot down it like a professional slide rider.

Garden State from Christie Glynn on Vimeo.