For the last 12 years, Chef Travis Taylor has been working at Sunriver Resort cooking up creative, flavorful dishes utilizing seasonal ingredients. While the resort’s restaurants may not be the most high profile or recognized in Central Oregon, that changed when Taylor was invited to be a contestant in the Bite of Bend Top Chef […]
Tara Redfield identifies herself as a food pervert. It might sound strange, but she means it in the most innocent of contexts. She’s obsessed with food, in every way. And, this fall, the former Sisters resident will appear on the new reality television competition, TNT’s “On the Menu” featuring hosts Chef Emeril Lagasse and Ty […]
Tortilleria Reyes is not just great Mexican food “for Bend,” but great Mexican food for anywhere in the country. While Bend has a few pretty tasty Mexican eateries, most of them are Americanized with fish bowl-sized margaritas and cheese on everything. Reyes keeps it authentic. And that authenticity can be tasted in every bite. Tortilleria […]
Galveston isn’t the sleepy, small-town thoroughfare it used to be. Now one of Bend’s most populated Westside streets, the avenue is a people-watching haven—read, stumbling traffic from 10 Barrel and sun-soaked floaters from Drake Park—and, with the Lot and a few notable restaurants, also a foodie’s paradise. With 10 Barrel’s brew-pub and tons of taps […]
Riverbend Brewing Remodeled a year ago, gone is the stuffy Rivals, with its poker tables and dank carpets. Replaced by a much brighter interior, fire pits outside and revamped menus with made-in-house sauces and local ingredients (like the beef for the burger). Also, brewmaster Dan Olsen has started a modest-sized facility across the parking lot, […]
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 […]
Barclay Losse has a sweet tooth. He also has diabetes. About a year and a half ago, Losse started experimenting with desserts that he could enjoy without jeopardizing his health. “I wanted to create something tasty that wouldn’t mess with my blood sugar as much as other tasty things,” he explains. “Also, I had jaw […]
Without seeing the menu or drink list, it is apparent from first glance that Stihl—the newest addition to downtown’s drinking smorgasbord in Franklin’s Crossing—is a whiskey bar. The decor is a warm blend of earth tones and copper, bathed in soft yellow light. The stern-faced mustachioed fellow on the sign looks like he might ride […]
On the heels of a successful career as executive chef at Broken Top Bottle Shop (note: winner of 2014’s Best Of Central Oregon for Vegetarian Food), Bethlyn Rider is branching out on her own with Bethlyn’s Global Fusion Farm to Street Food Truck. Drawing inspiration from the film The Chef, Rider says she felt constrained […]
The art of the drunk snack is a trickier science than it would seem at first blush, even in a town like Bend where brewery food is at the base of the food pyramid. It’s got to be salty for sure, and while a bag of BBQ Ridges or a basket of chicken wings does […]
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