Zesti Carts & Bar — Restaurant in Forest Grove

The upside of "food carts" is that you can select from a wide range of cuisines without have to drive to multiple locations. The downside is that in most food cart pods, you get your food in a box with a bottle of beer or a can of soda and you eat standing up or maybe in your car or at a long table if there is space.

Zesti carts has succeeded in upleveling the food cart experience to be more comfortable and enjoyable. The food cart will ask if you are eating at Zesti or taking the food to go. If the former, they will put your food on a real plate and hand it to you on a tray. Then, you can choose from outdoor couch/umbrella seating, or open air indoor seating at a big or medium or small table depending on your group size. Along with your food, Zesti has a wide range of beers, a full bar and non-alcoholic beverages too.

With the recent opening of the brand new outdoor comfy couches and umbrellas, we've found that Zesti is such a nice place to enjoy an afternoon with a glass or beer or wine or soda even if a meal is not desired. ...

This is a review of Zesti… not the carts who are stuck there without alternatives to host elsewhere.

Theres really only a few carts we come here for... and we are HUGE fans of those places... but it's really difficult to keep supporting this place... even if it means missing out on some of our favorites. Parking is still terribly inconvenient... and thats driven a number of good carts out to other locations. So now, your experience is something along the lines of:

find a spot to park in that "parking lot" go inside at 12:30 on a Friday only to discover 70% of the places are still closed leave and goto the Hillsboro carts

p.s. who are all these people taking the street parking?! if the carts are all closed and theres nobody there to eat.... HOW is the primary street parking full 100% of the time? Are the cart employees taking the convenient parking and forcing the customers back into that lawsuit waiting to happen that the owner...

The facilities here are really great. Been improving every year. Unfortunately it's becoming a food cart ghost town the last couple months. Only a handful of carts have stuck around. Very disappointing for a promising site. All my favorite carts are now gone. So I walked away without purchasing anything.

Update on 4/21/2022 - Stopped by again. Adding some photos. First pic shows the pod from the main gate. The larger building is where beer/cider is served and building to the right has more indoor seating. You can see one of those cool new plastic bubble covers that a few of the table have.

Total of 12 carts were present on this date. 2 don't look like they've been setup yet and only 6 were actually open. At least 5 carts have gone missing in recent months. This is why I said ghost town. A nice big area with great improvements, but hopefully more carts will...