Le Bistro Montage Ala Cart
Restaurant · Buckman ·
Iconic Cajun food cart serving creamy mac and cheese, po'boys
Iconic Cajun food cart serving creamy mac and cheese, po'boys
"The raucous dining room of Bistro Montage may be no more, but the menu lives on at this Southeast Portland food cart, with the same selection of mac and cheese, jambalaya, and po’boys. The mac and cheese is the real draw, particularly the Cajun-spiced “Spold” with optional additions like bacon, andouille, and alligator." - Eater Staff
"Once a late-night, Cajun-Creole-adjacent spot tucked below the Morrison Bridge, Le Bistro Montage had been open for more than a decade by the time Doug Fir opened and I remember it as a popular post-show hangout where teens and twenty-somethings would sit at long communal tables to order tricked-out mac and cheese or jambalaya. It shut down at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and its team later announced it would not reopen in its original location; months later Montage reopened as a food cart while the original space sat vacant, and it’s unclear how the Doug Fir team plans to transform that restaurant space into a music venue." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"Before Montage moved, it was the go-to late-night spot for mac and cheese — the last time I was in Portland I went to the Montage cart three times in five days and I miss it so much; plus, they don't yell at you, and it's not the same if they don't yell at you." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"As a sentimental late-night destination, I loved taking out-of-town friends here after a night out — it was one of the few Portland restaurants open late for dine-in service (complete with oyster shooters), and its waiters and tinfoil takeout sculptures were always a hoot." - Eater Staff
"I have seen Portland staples like Bistro Montage close permanently during the pandemic, another example of the restaurants and bars that have suffered and disappeared from the city's dining landscape." - Micah Anderson
