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A new venture is warming up bellies from Bend’s east side — and helping neighbors in need while they’re at it. Paul Hegg opened Central Oregon Soup Company at the beginning of November, featuring hot soups, “little dippers” — something of a combo of breadsticks and a sandwich, for dipping into soup — along with pasta […]

Real Taste of India, the Indian restaurant located along OB Riley Road in Bend, now has more to offer. The business announced this week that it’s now offering Indian grocery items, adding more flavor variety to a city that until recently didn’t have its own market dedicated to Asian foods. (With the opening of Tomi […]

The Box Factory in Bend is already a big draw for those looking to sip some of the spirits made in the region — and now it’s adding yet another location to the list. Portland’s woman-owned distillery, Freeland Spirits, announced this month that it’s opening a tasting room in the Box Factory, in the location […]

The Hideaway Tavern, a Bend and Redmond staple for great pub food and game-day-ready vibes, has added a new location on Bend’s north side. Hideaway Empire opened last week, on the corner of Boyd Acres Road and Empire Boulevard, in the former location for Backyard Pizza. Like the other locations for the Hideaway, comfy couches, […]

A couple weeks ago, I focused my quarterly doughnut roundup on fall favorites, specifically apple cider doughnuts. The only places that make them at this moment are Too Sweet Cakes and Sisters Bakery. Or so I thought, until a reader mercifully informed me that Big Ed’s Artisan Breads makes this autumnal delicacy (available only late September […]

Breweries get a lot of attention around these parts — but out of a basic Bend love for beer also comes a bevy of home brewers, eager to see whether their goods are as good as the pros. That’s where the Central Oregon Pro-Am Brewing Challenge — a relatively new event — comes in. The […]

I feel like I’m always sleeping on Monkless. From the panoramic view to the consistently fantastic beer and the deep bench of flavors on a food menu filled with dishes that are rare to find in Bend, Monkless has always followed its own muse, still innovating at a time when a lot of breweries are content […]

If a famous chef hands you a caviar’d cracker, it doesn’t prove anything. Like, of course it tastes good. It’s freakin’ caviar. True culinary brilliance is revealed by the creation of extraordinary food from the most humble of building blocks. For example, the butternut squash ravioli that stole the show at the Whitefish Food and […]

Chomp Chomp, the Japan-inspired downtown Bend bar and restaurant that opened at the start of the pandemic, is now closed. Chomp Chomp made a splash in 2020 with its opening, when it brought Larry Thomas, the so-called “Soup Nazi” chef from “Seinfeld” fame, to its opening event. “It is with a heavy heart that we […]