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Bike to the Green Festival Expo for Free Admission!

LA CrowdThe Green Festival Expo is just around the corner! It’s a great place to pick up some free goodies and maybe a holiday gift or two. Taking place Dec 11th -13th at the Oregon Convention Center, it’s the first time it’s been here in the festival’s 14 year history.

Green Festival Expo is the largest and longest-running sustainability event in the United States with a mission to bring together the world’s most trusted companies, innovative speakers, national and local innovative businesses, conscious consumers and pioneering thinkers to promote the best in sustainability and green living.

GF Logo stackedDuring the 3-day expo there will be free yoga classes, B2B mentoring sessions for green business owners, an interactive family fun area for kids to learn all about reducing their carbon footprint and over 50 inspirational speakers. Green Festival Expo is now featuring a Portland Local Market Place on the floor where attendees will be able to shop locally, taste vegan and vegetarian food and enjoy organic products close to home.

Bike to the expo, park at the Green Festival Bike Valet and receive FREE admission! Youth 16 and under are granted free admission as well. Booth space is available for local and national businesses. Book today by calling (828) 333-9403 x300 or e-mail [email protected]. Visit www.greenfestivals.org for more information. Hours open to the public are: Friday 12pm – 6pm, Saturday 10am – 6pm & Sunday 10am – 5pm. Find your tickets here: http://bit.ly/195cS0D.


Our Catering Kitchen is Growing!

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Boise Fry offers a variety of potatoes and cut fries, from shoestring to po’boys.

Part of being your favorite delivery concierge and catering option means providing customized breakfast, lunch, and dinner from the best restaurants in Portland. We’ve made all of Portland our catering kitchen, always adding new vendors, products, and restaurants to our online ordering options. Add some new flavors to your workday and try out these new options:

Tamale Boy: Tamales here are either Oaxacan or Norteño style, filled with chicken mole negro, chile verde pork, passilla pepper and queso fresco, or slow roasted pork. The menu at Tamale Boy also features burritos, enchiladas, and a number of creative seasonal options. There are quite a few vegan and gluten free options as well. Spice up your workday and order up!

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Wolf and Bear’s: the cutest little food cart that ever was.

Boise Fry Company: The standout here is fresh cut local potatoes (pick a potato: Kennebec, gold, sweet potato, yam, purple, or Okinawa; pick a cut: shoestring, homestyle, curly, po’balls), fried to perfection with a long list of signature sauces and seasonings. Order a beef, bison, or vegan burger on the side. Boise Fry is committed to using organic, local, an enviro-friendly products wherever possible.

Sake Japanese and Thai: A fusion of flavors intersect at Sake, from fresh sushi to a variety of noodle dishes and soups: ramen, udon, pad thai. Offer your group a variety of flavors and options by ordering direct from Sake!

Wolf and Bear’s: Get fresh with Middle Eastern inspired vegetarian salads and pita made from fresh quality ingredients, as organic and local as possible. Pita wraps are packed with creative combinations and delicious fillings: grilled eggplant, caramelized onions, roasted red peppers, hummus, homemade kalamata tapenade, creamy Mediterranean cheeses, and tahini.


Cha Cha Cha! Fulfilling your craving for Mexican food the right way!

Do you love Mexican food?  I don’t mean a late night munchy run to Taco Bell either. I mean real Mexican food!  The way that it’s supposed to be with salsa made from fresh tomatoes, tacos with naturally raised meats, and hand made whole flour or corn tortillas.  We at Portland Pedal Power certainly love good, healthy Mexican food.  As a matter of fact, we love it so much, we wanted to be able to bring great healthy Mexican food to you!  So we went out and teamed up with one of Portland’s best Southern Mexican Cuisine restaurants, Cha Cha Cha!  Cha Cha Cha uses natural and healthy ingredients to serve you wholesome delicious Portland approved cuisine from south of the border!  From using local ingredients, to their commitment to sustainability, to Javier’s mole’s commitment to bringing you great Mexican food, Cha Cha Cha is certainly Portland’s premier choice when it comes to fulfilling your Mexican food cravings!

Cha Cha Cha was created in an ongoing journey to bring the healthiest and most sustainable ingredients to your table, while keeping with the traditional cooking values that owner/chef Javier Hurtado was taught when he was a young boy in Cuernavaca, Mexico.  Cha serves authentic Mexican cuisine with an emphasis on organic and local ingredients striving to be modern yet traditional with an eclectic mix of dishes.

Javier Hurtado was born in Cuernavaca, Mexico (aka “Land of Eternal Spring”) located in the valley region just south of Mexico City. Both his mother and father came from a heritage both rich in agriculture, as well as food preparation. His family raised cattle and pigs, selling local meats and cheese when farming was a way to sustain life and livelihood.

From an early age, Javier learned the importance of raising meats organically and humanely, and shared his time between his father’s butcher shop and his mother’s restaurant, cultivating the craft of cooking and selling indigenous Mexican food. He has shared his gift of blending traditional Mexican food with culinary incite by creating the Cha! Cha! Cha! Mexican taquerias who offer traditional Mexican fare for busy Portlanders, who want healthy, timely, quality food.