Pan y Pueblo
Pan y Pueblo, formerly known as Lil' America, is a food pod in Portland, Oregon's Buckman neighborhood, in the United States.
Description and history
The pod opened as Lil' America at Stark Street and 10th Avenue in southeast Portland's Buckman neighborhood in April 2023, in the space previously occupied by MidCity SmashedBurger. Initial businesses in the pod were LGBTQ- and/or BIPOC-owned. The project has been a collaboration between ChefStable and the restaurant group Win Win. KOIN has described Win Win as an "organization that creates equitable and sustainable opportunities in the food industry for the queer and trans community".On August 29, 2025, owner ChefStable asked three vendors to leave by the end of October: Hawker Station, Makulít, and Speed-O Cappuccino. The decrease in the number of vendors is a result of the expansion of neighboring Dos Hermanos Bakery. Frybaby also announced plans to relocate by then.
The pod was renovated and became known as Pan y Pueblo. In December 2025, the pod had six carts. Two carts are expected to join in January 2026: a Yucatan cart operated by the father of the brothers who own Dos Hermanos Bakery, and another serving hamburgers and French fries.
Tenants
Tenants, which pay a monthly flat fee to operate in the pod, have included:- Bake on the Run
- Câche Câche
- Drip'n Crab
- Flame Pizza
- Frybaby
- Hawker Station
- Los Plebes
- Makulit, the first to sign on to the project
- Noah Halal
- Speed-O Cappuccino