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Blues City Biscuits

Memphis Soul, Portland Style.

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  • Location:Portland, Oregon, United States

  • Category:Food

Our Story

Blues City Biscuits is a food cart in Portland, Oregon, serving Memphis food with Portland style.  From a tiny 1954 travel trailer, we've been serving up fresh-baked buttermilk biscuits (made from scratch right there in the trailer and baked fresh to order, so you always get them soft and hot) and other classic favorites - like our legendarily rich sausage gravy, double-smoked chunky bacon, thick-cut glazed ham, hand-milled hominy grits, spiced fried apples, and smoky (vegetarian!) collard greens.  All our ingredients are local and organic whenever possible, and we never use any GMO's or artificial ingredients.  


Most of what we serve is great big biscuit sandwiches, like these:

Jerry Lee - Ham steak, fried egg, Tillamook cheddar & sausage gravy

Isaac - Fried egg, Tillamook cheddar, smoky collard greens & gravy

Otis - Fried egg, Tillamook cheddar, spiced fried apples, pecans & honey butter

Elvis - Peanut butter, Nutella, fresh organic banana & chunky bacon


It's been a big hit so far, and our customers love us.  We've gotten love from the Willamette Week and other critics, as well as Yelpers and other fans.  We've been doing so well, in fact, that our customers want more than our little trailer can handle.


We've got a terrific opportunity to upgrade and it would be a shame to miss it!  The new one is a self-contained RV, so we'd be able to drive out to cater events, parties, and farmers' markets.  It's also a heckuva lot bigger and with the increased space and equipment, we could offer so much more.  Fried chicken to go with the biscuits, our own special house-cured bacon (it's WAY better than storebought), and more of our incredible herb jelly (the lavender jelly is a personal favorite).  We could even sell trays of biscuits and herb jelly by the jar for you to take home and enjoy whenever you want!


The Impact

Obviously it would be nice to have more space, bigger equipment, and increased mobility.  But we wouldn't go to lengths like this if it weren't a bigger issue than that.  Demand for our biscuits is already going to outstrip our little tabletop oven's ability to keep up, and when summer comes we hope to be much busier.  Increased offerings would also help us be much busier!


What We Need & What You Get

This incredible RV is going for $10,000 - which is a bargain for what it is, a gorgeous and well-equipped completely mobile commercial kitchen.  So we're hustling to raise that $10,000.  It doesn't include the percentages taken by Indie GoGo and Paypal, but we can meet the difference when we sell the current trailer.

If we don't meet our $10,000 goal, we'll put the money we do raise toward another trailer or upgrading the one we have.  But an opportunity like this one doesn't come along every day, so we'd love to take it!

In exchange, you get the superawesome perks you see to the right.  There's a perk to fit every budget, and every bit helps, so you'll get our sincerest gratitude along with whichever of the perks you choose.


Other Ways You Can Help

Share this campaign on Facebook, Twitter, wherever you go!  You can also click the link below to vote for us in the Eat St. Video Contest; it just takes a few seconds and you can vote once a day to help us appear on the hit TV show "Eat St."  And best of all, come on out and try our food - we guarantee you'll want more of it!

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