When Ben & Jerry’s started making ice cream, flavors came in about three choices—vanilla, chocolate and, for the bold, strawberry. Oh sure, there was the more expansive Baskin Robbins dishing out 32 flavors, but even those were fairly traditional, with variations on chocolate like Rocky Road. But in 1978, two Vermont hippies had a completely […]
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Opening for business!
Some springtime cleaning leads to summertime changes
Wild Ride Brewing 332 SW 5th St., Redmond With 10 in-house taps and 2 guest taps serving local ciders, the transformed Redmond Parr Lumber building serves as the newest addition to the craft brewing community in Central Oregon. The locale also features various menus from the rotating food trailers outside the brewery. Redmond’s new version […]
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The Earl of Sandwich
Hot Box is more than a hot box (although it’s that, too)
An enticing red picnic table has appeared on the lush green patch of lawn outside of Pine Mountain Sports at the corner of SW Century Dr. and SW Colorado Ave. Nestled along the wall of the business is an innocuous-looking white cube, housing Bend’s newest food cart. Hot Box offers a short, but specific menu […]
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Dazed and Opinionated
Four beer geeks take on some of Bend’s most expensive beer
Tasting four of Bend’s most expensive beers is great fun, and it is best done with four of Bend’s most active beer geeks. These were not all the expensive beers available in town, nor all the beer geeks, but it proved the perfect balance of strong beer and strong opinion. Joining me for this tasting […]
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Something Tasty This Way Comes
New restaurant developments in the Bend dining scene
Dogwood Cocktail Cabin The long-vacant, former Astro Lounge location next door to Barrio on Minnesota Ave. has undergone some major renovations. New front windows, as well as a bohemian log cabin vibe, are additions that owners Doug and Phoebe Pedersen built into the Dogwood Cocktail Cabin. The focus of the new bar will be handcrafted […]
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Gimmie Some Dim Sum
Sweet Saigon starts new small plate menu
Sweet Saigon is the only restaurant on the downtown strip with a cooked animal hanging in the front widow. The newly added peking ducks and sides of pork dangling from hooks on Wall Street are taunting meat piñatas saying, “Eat me,” and also are the centerpiece of the Vietnamese restaurant’s new dim sum menu, served […]
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Little Bites: Easter Brunches
Where and what to eat when the bunny comes
Easter Brunches 10 Below 10 NW Minnesota Ave. | 541-382-1010 10 am.-2 pm. $30 adults, $15 kids, free 5 and younger Often overlooked (well, it is downstairs after all), this sleek subterranean setting offers a traditional variety from tasty crepes to prime rib. Awbrey Glen 2500 Awbrey Glen Drive | 541-385-6011 9.30 am – 1 […]
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Straight From The Farm
A holistic attitude toward farming, maintaining land and eating
Bette Frasier is more than just the owner of the Well Traveled Fork, and more than just a tour guide to High Desert area farms. She is greeted with hugs and toothy smiles from farmers, and she knows the names of family members, their pets and what everyone’s been working on. “We’re several generations removed […]
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Bubbling Up
Kombucha Mama steps into the spotlight with rebranding
As Bend continues to grow its reputation as a beer town, two local women are putting the city on the map for a different kind of brewed beverage: kombucha. When Jamie Danek and Michelle Plantenberg started Kombucha Mama in 2009—just a few years after the 2,000-year-old effervescent fermented tea started to be produced commercially—they brewed […]
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Tempeh it Forward
Young co-owner of Cafe Yumm, Karli Foster means business
When Karli Foster walks into Townshend’s Tea House for her interview with the Source, she is dressed in the uniform of one of the front counter employees of Cafe Yumm. Since she is the co-owner of the Bend Yumm, one would think she would be in civilian clothes, but Foster doesn’t work that way. “I […]