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Whether Serving Out of a Cart Window or Cardboard Boxes, Gumba Is One of Portland’s Finest Pasta Parlors No meal in 2020 provided more of a “this feels like we are in a restaurant” frisson than Gumba’s beet, cabbage and endive salad, pappardelle with braised beef sugo, pan-roasted steelhead trout, and eggplant olive oil cake. Gumba (Chris Nesseth) Updated January 13 As a food cart, Gumba punched above its weight, serving fresh pastas, handmade burrata and ambitious snacks that made you want to linger at an outdoor table. Now it s a brick-and-mortar in a time of takeout only but you ll still want to break out the candles, placemats and cloth napkins once you get the food home: No meal in 2020 provided more of a this feels like we are in a restaurant frisson than Gumba s beet, cabbage and endive sal