Astoria, home to overcast skies, pretty old houses and cheap Goonies memorabilia, is getting as beer-mad as Bend. The similarities in the two scenes are striking. Bend has Deschutes; Astoria has Fort George, the big kid in town, distributing amazing IPAs and stouts in cans statewide. We have a McMenamins; they have a Rogue location. […]
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 […]
The history of Deschutes Brewery’s Jubelale, the “festive winter ale” that hits shops and bars every September, is as long as that of the company making it. It is Deschutes’ oldest seasonal beer, launched just a few months after the brewery’s opening in 1988, and it was also the first beer Deschutes ever bottled, with […]
When Brian and Todd McMenamin opened their first brewpub in southwest Portland 29 years ago, the beer scene was still pretty sleepy in Oregon. “There was no such thing as plants inside a tavern,” Brian recently recalled. “It was dark; it was smoky. We carried every beer brewed in state on tap, and that was […]
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, […]
Just as Halloween gear now lines supermarket shelves beginning early September and novelty antlers for your dog will likely be available at PetSmart before Columbus Day, beer fans have seen pumpkin beers hit stores earlier and earlier every year. Why the “holiday” creep? Because, much like with good Oktoberfest beer, ales with lots of fall […]
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 […]
By the time you read this, the first fresh-hop beers of the season will start to arrive in the bars and tasting rooms of Bend. But there’s something new this year—not only is the beer brewed locally, but some of it features hops grown from a suddenly bustling scene of nearby farms, none more than […]
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