Popular Portland Cart Sure Shot Burgers Is Opening a Restaurant | Eater Portland

"After establishing itself as one of Portland’s top smash burger spots as a popular cart, this place is expanding into a brick-and-mortar just about 50 feet from its current location. The forthcoming restaurant is described as a family-friendly, all-ages establishment built around a model of cheeseburgers and highballs, with an expanded menu that includes a drive-in salad, crispy Brussels sprouts, milkshakes, slushies, frozen gin and tonics for adults, and orange freezes for kids that are described as “vintage McDonald’s orangeade meets a frozen Orange Julius.” It will also keg its own root beer, served in frosty mugs for classic floats, and the move indoors lets the team extend hours to roughly noon to 9 p.m., six days a week, while allowing for more ambitious cocktails and careful to-go cup design. A defining part of the experience is the deliberate focus on in-person dining and counter service, with no third-party delivery apps, no AI, no ordering kiosks, and an insistence on old-school human interaction. Inside, the design takes cues from old-school Portland fast food, with Formica surfaces, an open ordering counter free of screens and kiosks, bright booths salvaged from a former mini-golf course, visible slushy machines, and stainless steel milkshake mixers, with orders called out over a loudspeaker to keep everything simple and transparent. Outside, it shares a beer garden with neighboring Sorbu Paninoteca and the Cully Farmers Market, helping to create a neighborhood hangout suited to repeat visits. For now, it still operates as a cart at Oakshire Brewing while the new space, taking over the Christmas-colored building that currently houses Taqueria Los Pepitos Locos, prepares for a soft opening in April." - Ron Scott