Ten restaurants in Bend are participating in this year’s foodie crawl. The event on Sunday, April 27 raises money for NeighborImpact. It’s described as a pub crawl meets a progressive dinner event. Starting at 2pm, guests can sample bite-sized hors d’oeuvres at each location along with a drink, then head to the next location at their own pace. Menus are pre-set. “After sampling the creations of one culinary partner, it’s on to the next, no guesswork needed,” Garth Brown, NeighborImpact’s development specialist, wrote in an email to the Source. All of the restaurants are either located in downtown Bend or on Galveston and Newport avenues.
Participating restaurants include J-Dub, Roam, Wonderland Chicken, El Sancho, Dump City Dumplings, Blissful Spoon, Zydeco, The Commons and Drake. The event ends with an after-party at McMenamins from 4-6pm. That includes a complimentary drink, a selection of desserts, live music and a raffle.
Tickets for the foodie crawl are $75. The money goes to the local food bank. In previous years, it’s raised around $30,000, Brown told the Source. NeighborImpact recently announced a historic demand, serving 83,000 individuals per month, which shattered its last record. Federal funding cuts have reduced the food bank’s supply by 17%, according to a news release. NeighborImpact stores and distributes more than four million pounds of food each year in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties, as well as the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
This article appears in Source Weekly April 24, 2025.
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