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Where to Get Food in Portland This Week Hot Plates, coming through! Gumba (Chris Nesseth)
1733 NE Alberta St., 503-975-5951, gumba-pdx.com. 4:30-8 pm Wednesday, 4:30-8:30 pm Thursday-Monday. 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 provides 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.