The Source Eating Team, Author at The Source

Restaurant Guide 2020

The Source Eating Team makes its picks for Restaurant, Rookie Food Carts of the Year

The Source Eating TeamJuly 22, 2020July 26, 2025

In other years, we’ve put out our annual Restaurant Guide earlier in the season, giving locals and tourists alike a guide to what’s good to eat in Central Oregon. This year, everything is different. Restaurants and bars continue to grapple with new and changing regulations, with customers who might not be ready to comply, and […]

Special Issues & Guides

Breakfast & Lunch Guide 2019

The Source Eating TeamSeptember 27, 2019March 8, 2024

Breakfast & Lunch Guide 2019 Coffee and crumpets? Omelet with toast? Just tea and cream? Whatever your idea of an ideal breakfast, let the following pages give you some ideas of where to get what you’re looking for. This year’s Breakfast and Lunch Guide is packed with listings from places offering breakfast and/or lunch in […]

Food & Drink

Foodie Feats: A Pictorial Peek

The Source eating (and drinking) team works its way through a host of food spots to arrive at this year’s Restaurant Guide winners

The Source Eating TeamApril 10, 2019July 6, 2025

Week after week, year after year, the Source eating (and drinking) team has a tough job: Eat (and drink). And then tell readers what we thought about it. It’s a challenging gastronomical feat under any conditions, but once a year, the stakes get higher. Every spring, the Source eating (and drinking) team sets its sights […]

Food & Drink

The Same, But Different

Global Fusion’s brick-and-mortar is built around the same curiosity but with new dishes

The Source Eating TeamJuly 1, 2015August 29, 2024

Bethlyn Rider has earned a reputation as one of the most friendly and experimental chefs in town. But along with curiosity and creativity sometimes comes relentlessness. Rider established her reputation (and following) as the executive chef for Broken Top Bottle Shop, which won the Source’s Best of Central Oregon for Vegetarian Food in 2014 under […]

Food & Drink

Fire it Up

How can you go wrong with pizza? You can’t.

The Source Eating TeamSeptember 3, 2014March 14, 2025

To demonstrate our infinite love for our favorite food, we would like to start this restaurant review with a haiku: Cheese, sauce, bread, toppings The combination can’t fail Pizza forever According to the National Association of Pizza Operators there are 3 billion pizzas sold in the United States each year; with good reason. Pizza is […]

Food & Drink

May You Never Have Scurvy Again

Laughing Planet opens in Bend

The Source Eating TeamJuly 30, 2014August 16, 2023

It’s about time Bend got a Laughing Planet. The Portland-based healthful food chain, beloved by Portlanders and Eugenians (is that right? Eugeners, Ducks?), for its long list of nutritious nourishing options, affordable price point and goofy vibe. All those merits seem like perfect additions to our active, creative, food-loving culture. For the uninitiated, Laughing Planet […]

Food & Drink

22 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

Cabin 22 reopens a familiar space

The Source Eating TeamJune 19, 2014July 11, 2025

In three years, as many restaurants have occupied the familiar space along the back stretch of SW Century. Two years, Players, a longtime dark and dingy bar, closed its doors. A year, Blue Pine cleaned the space up, let some sunlight in and optimistically opened a gastropub, with an impressive menu and specials like a […]

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