Chicken and Guns
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Wood-smoked chicken & crispy potatoes with flavorful sauces
Wood-smoked chicken & crispy potatoes with flavorful sauces
"With wood-fired whole birds and dips like chimichurri and habanero carrot sauce, this Hawthorne food cart doesn’t exactly do traditional chicken and jojos. But the “guns” in question — crispy potatoes, seasoned with lemon and sea salt, and served with pickled onions and creamy Peruvian aji sauce — are a welcome alternative to the usual." - Rebecca Roland
"For food carts that satisfy on a budget, I stop at Chicken and Guns in Hawthorne." - Vicki Denig
"I get extra green sauce at Chicken and Guns — like seven extra ones — and it's life; it is so perfect." - Thom Hilton
"Portland’s own pollo a la brasa cart at the longstanding pod Cartopia, Chicken and Guns has opened its second cart on SE 82nd, with one notable twist: The Chicken & Guns at CORE only serves wings as opposed to quarter-birds, with add-ons like fried eggs, pork belly, and tacu-tacu. The cart’s roster of sauces is at the new cart, too." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"I learned that the Chicken & Guns food cart became the center of a controversy after co-owner Dustin Knox allegedly called the police on a Black customer, Kevin Raysor, who says he was waiting for the cart to open at the Cartopia pod; police notes from a 10:16 a.m. 911 call show Knox reported a Black male in a khaki shirt and blue jeans “yelling racial slurs” and threatening a landscaper, and an earlier 9:10 a.m. report described a possibly related incident with different clothing at SE Milwaukie Avenue and Ogden Street—locations 2.8 miles apart—and police did not locate or contact either suspect. Raysor says Knox approached him, asked what he was doing, told him to leave after he took a photo because he felt uncomfortable, and that he did not use racial slurs other than calling Knox a “white guy” and a “hick”; he also noted he had money to buy food and was not homeless. Title Bout, a consulting firm affiliated with Chicken & Guns, confirmed the incident in an internal investigation, said Knox has been placed on leave, and reported an apology from Knox; Eater Portland has reached out for further comment and Willamette Week obtained the 911 transcript." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
