People in Portland love to eat good, local, and in-season food (some of it grown in rooftop gardens of the restaurants themselves). Today Portland is considered one of the most exciting foodie towns in the country; when it comes to food carts alone you can find more than 600 of them spread throughout the city. Portland is considered a midsize city by US standards but when it comes to the amount of restaurants it has more per capita than all but nine other cities in the United States.