Tite Knot Craft Coffee

Location: 706 SW 10th St., Redmond

Website: www.titeknot.com

Hours: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday

Owner: Lauri Dahl

Opened: January 2021

Type of food: Coffee and baked goods

About the cart: Tite Knot operates out of a former Portland Public Schools maintenance truck that Dahl found on Craigslist. The property includes homey indoor seating and outdoor seating, with tables spread across the back lawn. The cart is also renovating its bakery, which will allow Dahl and her employees to make baked goods on site. Dahl estimated that the bakery will open in about a month.

Your first order should be: Dahl recommended the shaken vanilla espresso for summer — a mix of espresso, vanilla and heavy whipping cream — and a homemade scone for earlier risers who makes it to the cart before they’re sold out.

Fun fact: Before opening Tite Knot, Dahl ran Gimme! Coffee in Ithaca, New York. She wanted to start a coffee shop in Portland when she moved back to the west coast in 2008, but the recession stopped her. “But then when the pandemic hit, it was like, ‘I gotta do it now or never,’” she said.