Restaurant Guide 2018
Who’s hungry? With more than 350 restaurants, cafes and carts included in this guide, you’ll have no shortage of spots with which to satisfy your craving for Northwest cuisine—or Asian, American, Indian, Italian, Mexican, seafood, steak—or just about any other type of world food you can imagine. (OK, Central Oregon still doesn’t have a dedicated…
Food Cart of the Year
Before we go any further, here’s some important advice: save room for dessert at Scoutpost. If you’ve eaten at the cart, located in the Spoken Moto food pod, chances are you’re already drooling at the mention of its name. The food is so craveable, it had to be the Source’s 2018 food cart of the…
Go Old School
The Pine Tavern established 1936 Named after the Ponderosa pine tree that still grows in one of the dining rooms, The Pine Tavern serves traditional American cuisine. Locals and visitors rave about the complimentary, delicious, hot sourdough scones served with honey butter. The Pine Tavern was started as an English tavern by two women, Maren…
Restaurant of the Year: Bos Taurus
Modern American steakhouse Bos Taurus earns the Restaurant of the Year status for the service and cuisine—both impeccable. The intention Chef George Morris and his staff have put into the Bos Taurus experience is reminiscent of a carefully curated museum exhibition—but one you can sink your teeth into. Before opening a year ago, the Bos…
Rookie of the Year
“It kind of started off in a delicatessen, local-sourced view,” James Fink recounts, as he presses a bison burger into the flat-top grill in the kitchen of Wild Oregon Foods. Seven months later, he says, “it’s kind of more steered towards a diner—nostalgic, classic-style foods.” When you’re a rookie restaurant, shifting with the tastes of…
