“We have water dishes, shade, etc., and we love having dogs,” says Crux manager Aaron Childers. In fact, originally, Crux had planned to be an off-leash dog park and bar; however, they could not find an insurance company to underwrite the idea (insert boos and growling here). Even so, the concept remains, as evidenced by the wide-open […]
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Kickstart Your Beer
Rat Hole crowdfunds for a new brewery
Rat Hole Brew Pub, the small taproom and Southwestern restaurant tucked into an unassuming corner of the Old Mill District, is expanding. And they’d like your help. Earlier this week, Rat Hole—named after the storage barn on the outskirts of Bend where brewers Al and Susan Toepfer built their 2.5-barrel brewery—put up a page on […]
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Logsdon Brings the Funk
New beer and new taproom for Hood River’s farmhouse brewery
It’s hard to tell the story of beer in Oregon without mentioning Dave Logsdon multiple times. He’s authentically oldschool, co-founding Full Sail Brewing Co. back in 1987, and serving as its first full-time brewer. Before that, he founded Wyeast Laboratories, eminent makers of yeast cultures for the industry, and a name every homebrewer in North […]
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As In Vegan Heaven . . .
So at Earth Below’s plant-based food cart
Sierrah Umhauer is all smiles when she steps out of her food cart. Wood paneled and with a small stained glass window embedded in the door, the small cart looks like something from the Enchanted Forest. Youthful, Umhauer begins talking immediately, introducing her dog that stands a few feet away, out of the sun in […]
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Chi Restaurant is Here To Stay
An old space gets a beautiful overhaul — and fresh sushi
The corner of Newport Avenue and the Deschutes River has come a long way since the days of Boondocks, the long gone but not entirely forgotten nightclub. After several attempts as a bar and music venue, the space next to the river has finally come into its own—as a classy restaurant, Chi Chinese and Sushi […]
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The Great Oregon Summer Beerfest Crawl
Road tripping? Some boozy destinations.
Summer is flying by, but the beer festival season is, if anything, just kicking off. Next month is gonna be hopping locally, of course, with the big annual Bend Brewfest unfolding across the Old Mill August 13-16 and the Little Woody barrel-aged beer-and-whiskey festival pouring closer to downtown just two weeks later. (Pro tip: Volunteers […]
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It’s Hot, Let’s Drink
Summer beers to keep you alive ’til September
July may be Oregon Craft Beer Month, but given the painfully hot weather around the region lately, Bendites can be forgiven for wishing this month passes as quickly as possible. But, like it does for many of life’s other annoyances, beer provides a solution. Summer seasonals are all over the bars and shelves right now, […]
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Noodle Reboot
Popular Soba noodles returns to downtown
About two years ago, the popular downtown noodle shop Soba closed its doors. There were rumors that the place would reopen again, sometime. And then, with little fanfare, that “sometime” arrived earlier this summer as Soba re-opened in a downtown storefront a few doors down and across the street from its previous location, the space […]
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The Same, But Different
Global Fusion’s brick-and-mortar is built around the same curiosity but with new dishes
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 […]
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Downtown Bend’s True Taproom
White Water Taphouse devoted fully to the craft
Nick Griffin has lived full-time in Bend for only about four months, but the taproom he’s just opened up downtown seems destined to have a major impact on the beer scene here. White Water Taphouse, which officially opened last weekend while Deschutes Brewery held its 27th anniversary party across the street, is the result of […]
