Destination food cart clusters from downtown to Southeast Portland are closing to make way for new development. But in North Portland, one already popular food cart pod is doubling down.

And this one has beer.

Three new carts are set to join the already formidable roster wrapped around German beer bar Prost!, with newcomers including sandwich and cocktail carts from bar owner Dan Hart and a new outpost of the Vancouver taco destination Little Conejo.

Let's start with Little Conejo. The Vancouver taqueria, from bartender Mychal Dynes (Noble Rot) and chef Mark Wooten (Nodoguro), has been packing in fans of its excellent tacos and mezcal selection since opening last year.

Though they're still working out the details, look for the restaurant's new cart to serve its carnitas, suadero and fish tacos on the same transcendent tortillas made fresh each day at the Vancouver restaurant. Other ideas being tossed around? Beans and rice, fresh juices and horchata, tortas and huaraches and, permits permitting, al pastor carved off the spit.

"The timing, everything just felt right about it," Dynes said. "We're not sure if we're all the way ready to do something like this again, but we also felt like if we didn't get in there, we'd look back and regret it."

"There" is the recently renamed Prost! Marketplace, the once pioneering food cart pod that has had something of a renaissance since Hart bought in last year. Since last summer, the pod has brought on heavy-hitting carts such as Pastrami Zombie, Desi PDX and Caspian Kabob. This spring, Hart landed his biggest fish yet after Matt's BBQ, makers of Portland's best Texas-style barbecue, had to relocate from its original Northeast Portland home. The lines have barely died down since.

Now Hart is ready to throw his own hat in the ring. Next week, the bar owner will open a pair of linked carts just opposite Matt's. Bloodbuzz, named for The National song, will focus on drinks, with coffee, cold brew cocktails, Bloody Marys and other morning drinks starting at 8 a.m. By lunch, the cart will be serve "crushable backyard barbecue cocktails" including boozy slushies, an Aperol spritz and a paloma variation made with Stiegl grapefruit radler instead of soda. Bloodbuzz will also be home to a lineup of domestic craft beers strictly verboten on Prost!'s German-only taps.

To accompany those drinks -- and satisfy the OLCC's food requirements -- Bloodbuzz will be paired with Breadbox, a food cart with sandwiches designed by Stammtisch chef Graham Chaney. At lunch, the sandwich roster will include a steak and egg, a meatball Parm and a salt-and-pepper squid, as well as a smash burger and a pair of vegetarian options. And for longtime Prost!-goers, the a.m. menu holds an egg muffin, a "fishy" bagel with salt cod cream cheese and lox and a bit of nostalgia: The breakfast burrito, with its chipotle lime crema, was inspired in part by the sorely missed former Marketplace tenant The Big Egg.

Bloodbuzz and Breadbox are expected to open in time for Prost!'s annual Kölsch Fest from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 9. Expect Little Conejo to open its new cart sometime this summer. Look for all three at 4233 N. Mississippi Ave.

-- Michael Russell