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Fill Your Pantry Helps Locals Stock Up, Provide Food to Others

With 70,000 fewer Oregonians on SNAP benefits this year, annual event sets a big goal to provide more fresh local food
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A local event that helps people stock their pantries with locally grown food for the cold season is right around the corner. The Central Oregon Fill Your Pantry event takes place Nov. 7, with the window to pre-order goods set for Oct. 18-28. For the second year in a row, the event also helps locals […]

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A Sweet New Reason to Rise and Shine at Dear Mom Cafe

The popular Thai restaurant on Century Drive now brings breakfast to the table
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Some mornings, breakfast needs to be an event. You want the eggs, the coffee, the crispy potatoes and perhaps a cocktail, and you’re willing to wait for them. Other mornings what you really want is a good cup of tea, a delicious bite and a comfortable place to sit and catch up with a friend […]

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‘SURVing’ Up Better Hydration

Bendite crafts a new electrolyte beverage — without sugar or stevia
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A young Bend resident is launching a new sparkling electrolyte beverage, developed and made in Central Oregon. Tanner Bowen, an outdoors enthusiast who spent his youth skiing, running, bike racing and playing soccer, has just launched SURV, featuring real fruit flavors and electrolytes. A few years ago, at age 19, Bowen opened a pizza food […]

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Fire Evacuation Sparks an Idea: Giving Back to Firefighters

Sisters seasoning company was born out of one family’s experience with evacuation, and gratitude for those who saved their home
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When they’re not running out to battle blazes like this year’s Akawa Butte fire or last year’s Flat Fire, firefighters cook a lot. That’s one fun fact that Sisters resident Leslie Pade picked up in 2025, when she and her family were forced to evacuate their home. While the Flat Fire picked up speed and […]

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Bistro Colette = French Comfort 

From steak frites to a standout buckwheat crepe, the former Flights Wine Bar has a menu filled with satisfying classics and delicious surprises
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Sometimes a restaurant does not need to reinvent the room to reinvent the experience. At Bistro Colette, Chef Jeremy Buck has transformed the former Flights Wine Bar on College Way into a warm and welcoming neighborhood French bistro, while keeping much of the comfortable, upscale casual atmosphere that made the space inviting in the first […]

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A Little Bit of Italy

Mundrelli’s brings old-country flavor to a new location
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Here is a hill I am prepared to die on: Over the last decade, Central Oregon has quietly stepped into the spotlight as a burgeoning destination for foodies across the country. We’ve long been a mecca for tourists from around the world looking for jaw-dropping outdoor recreation, but our food scene will have just as […]

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Boneyard Closing Its Pub, Going Back to ‘Where It All Started’

Boneyard to focus on its original location on Lake Place
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In 2010, Tony Lawrence amassed the detritus of other breweries’ equipment, collecting enough beer-gear to launch what would be known as Boneyard Beer. The name was a nod to the stitched-together equipment — the “boneyard” of other beer-makers’ stuff. The brewery operated in that punk-rock style for over a decade and a half, pouring beers […]

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Flush with Fresh Hops Festivals

Three breweries, three hopportunities to celebrate peak freshness
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There are those who’ve equated Oregon’s fresh hops beers with Beaujolais Nouveau wines in Beaujolais, France, where Gamay grapes are grown. But whereas Beaujolais Nouveau is a wine celebration that honors the harvest by eschewing the mantra, “no wine before its time,” fresh hop beers represent the apex of tasting this year’s hop harvest at […]

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General Duffy’s is Up for Sale

Food cart lot and music venue will stay open while the founders seek out a new owner
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Downtown Redmond food cart lot, sports bar and live music venue General Duffy’s is up for sale, its owners announced Sept. 9. The sale includes the business and its 1.4-acre, four-parcel commercial property. Co-owners Dick Robertson, wife Susan Robertson and son Tanner Robertson are, “seeking a buyer with the resources and vision to build on […]

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