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Is Ali Baba's Turkish Kebabs @ Food Cart Pods (parking lot) Still Open?

Food Paradise, Season 2 Portland, Oregon

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Ali Baba's Turkish Kebabs @ Food Cart Pods (parking lot) is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The business's Square ordering site, checked 2026-09-08, returned HTTP 200 with a same-day last-modified timestamp and an active ordering widget, and Google Places lists it as operational. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Ali Baba's Turkish Kebabs was featured in "Food Truck Paradise" (S2E2), which highlighted Turkish kebabs served from a food cart parked in one of Portland's cart pods. Ali Baba's had operated from a parking-lot cart pod setup, a common format for Portland's mobile food vendors. The cart's current storefront operates under the name Alibaba Takeaway, taking orders through a Square-hosted ordering site. Checked 2026-09-08, that site returned a live page with a same-day last-modified timestamp and a working online-ordering widget, though the page's title and visible text did not load fully during the check.

Google Places lists the business as operational at 431 SW Harvey Milk St, Portland. No dated announcement of a closure, move, or ownership change was found, and the cart continues to take orders for Turkish kebab-style food under the Alibaba Takeaway name.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 2

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: Food Truck Paradise · What was featured: Turkish kebabs from a food cart pod
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  1. alibabatakeaway.square.site http://alibabatakeaway.square.site/
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Record fp-0128 · checked by Cal Marchetti.