El Rincón Boliviano — Restaurant in Portland

So happy to see a Bolivian food cart in Portland after living in Bolivia for several years. They offer a number of excellent traditional dishes as well as plates more typical of countries across South America. Do yourself a favor on a cold rainy day and try something new.

Highly recommend the sopa de maní (peanut soup). It’s a very comforting creamy soup made by simmering raw unroasted peanuts in chicken stock, then blending until smooth and simmering chicken and vegetables, then topped with crispy fried potato slivers. Excellent on a rainy winter Portland day. But be warned that they only make it Wednesdays and weekends and when it sells out it’s gone.

The cheese and ground beef empanadas as well as the tucumanas (an Argentine style empanada filled with veggies, ground beef, and hard boiled egg) are excellent - fried until...

An incredible array of Bolivian/South American dishes from freshly fried empanadas (Tucumanas) to Ceviche to vegetarian quinoa soup. I went with a group and we tried many dishes and loved them all! The service was great - so friendly and welcoming and quickly prepared...

Just ate here for the first time and it did not disappoint…. All of the best, traditional Bolivian foods done right! We brought my mom here, who is Bolivian, and she also gave El Rincon Boliviano two thumbs up. Highly recommend the salteñas, silpancho, and...