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What Happened to À La Carts Food Pavilion After Mystery Diners?

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As of September 2026, À La Carts Food Pavilion has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.

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What the source shows: A Yelp listing for the food cart pavilion, last updated April 2026, marks it permanently closed, at an address (SE 50th & Division) that does not match the 10175 SE Stark St record supplied in this batch.

  • Season / episode Season 8, Episode 7
  • Original air date
  • Address 10175 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97216

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What happened after Mystery Diners?

On the Season 8 episode "Food Cart Catastrophe" (Mystery Diners, aired 2014-11-17), Rod and Linda, owners of À La Carts Food Pavilion in Portland, heard complaints from their cart-tenant vendors about a newly hired onsite manager and asked investigator Charles Stiles to look into it. Mystery diners Amber and Joshua went undercover posing as customers and vendors to observe how the manager treated tenants day to day. According to Wikipedia's article on the program, citing its sources, the show's own end-credits disclaimer allows that certain events may have been staged or re-enacted for dramatic effect, and a television critic quoted in the article described the show's setups as unconvincing. A Yelp listing for the pavilion, last updated in April 2026, marked the business as permanently closed and showed no current hours or menu; it placed the pavilion at SE 50th and Division, not the SE Stark Street address supplied for this batch, so the mapping record used to locate this entry may point to a different, similarly named business instead of the actual pod. No dated source found in this review gave an exact closure date, and no successor tenant or replacement food-cart pod at either address was identified. No current social media account for the pavilion was found showing activity dated after the episode's original run.

Featured on Mystery Diners

Season / episode
Season 8, Episode 7
Original air date
Episode title
Food Cart Catastrophe
What was featured
cart-tenant complaints about a newly hired onsite pavilion manager
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
À La Carts Food Pavilion

Frequently asked questions

Is À La Carts Food Pavilion still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, À La Carts Food Pavilion has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.

What happened to À La Carts Food Pavilion after Mystery Diners?

On the Season 8 episode "Food Cart Catastrophe" (Mystery Diners, aired 2014-11-17), Rod and Linda, owners of À La Carts Food Pavilion in Portland, heard complaints from their cart-tenant vendors about a newly hired onsite manager and asked investigator Charles Stiles to look into it. As of September 2026, À La Carts Food Pavilion has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.

Is À La Carts Food Pavilion permanently closed?

As of September 2026, À La Carts Food Pavilion has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is À La Carts Food Pavilion located?

10175 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97216. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Mystery Diners featured À La Carts Food Pavilion?

Season 8, Episode 7 of Mystery Diners, first aired November 17, 2014. The episode is titled “Food Cart Catastrophe”.

What do reviews say since Mystery Diners?

No dated source found in this review gave an exact closure date, and no successor tenant or replacement food-cart pod at either address was identified. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

Is À La Carts Food Pavilion still using the Mystery Diners menu or branding?

A Yelp listing for the pavilion, last updated in April 2026, marked the business as permanently closed and showed no current hours or menu; it placed the pavilion at SE 50th and Division, not the SE Stark Street address supplied for this batch, so the mapping record used to locate this entry may point to a different, similarly named business instead of the actual pod. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Visit info

Address
10175 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97216
Venue type
truck
Official website
None found

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Sources

  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/a-la-carts-food-pavillion-portland

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