With winter arriving this month, or maybe this week, but ski season still a few weeks away, you finally have an excuse not to do anything outside on your Sunday mornings. Rather, you have all the reason in the world to spend the day watching football. But we all know that football at home is about one-eighth as exciting as viewing games in the company of other fans, some of whom wear jerseys from far off locales and cheer loudly for teams like the Detroit Lions. Several bars and restaurants around town open up early on Sundays, offering you special menus and discounted drinks as they screen every NFL game on the schedule. Here's a sampling of some that are little off the beaten pigskin path where you can get flapjacks and bacon with your first downs.
Food & Drink
Want Some Karma with that Burger?: Common Table is serving fresh, local food with a purpose
The first thing you notice when walking into Common Table is the 20-foot-long black walnut table, which runs the length of the new non-profit café on Oregon Avenue. The restaurant, which occupies the former Cork location, has been open for just over a month. Yet, with minimal promotion, save a few articles (we wrote about the enterprise back in August) and some Facebook activity, the café has been packed for both lunch and dinner nearly every day of the week.
Down, Set, Grub: Surveying the Sunday morning football breakfast scene
With winter arriving this month, or maybe this week, but ski season still a few weeks away, you finally have an excuse not to do anything outside on your Sunday mornings. Rather, you have all the reason in the world to spend the day watching football. But we all know that football at home is about one-eighth as exciting as viewing games in the company of other fans, some of whom wear jerseys from far off locales and cheer loudly for teams like the Detroit Lions. Several bars and restaurants around town open up early on Sundays, offering you special menus and discounted drinks as they screen every NFL game on the schedule. Here's a sampling of some that are little off the beaten pigskin path where you can get flapjacks and bacon with your first downs.
Little Bites: In Case You Missed It: A recap of some of our recent restaurant reviews
Common Table
If you've heard about Common Table, you know that it's much more than a restaurant. Run by Zack Hancock, a young, charismatic former schoolteacher and ordained Presbyterian minister and Bob Pearson, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, CT is structured slightly differently than your run-of-the-mill café. Proceeds benefit those who can't afford to eat at Common Table by funding $10 coupons that are donated to folks in need throughout the community. In addition, Mondays are pay-as-you-go, with a selection of soups available for a suggested donation.
Do You Vegan? Check out Veg Net Bend’s Upcoming Events
As much as I try to have my finger on the pulse of the food scene here in Bend, I have to admit I haven’t been that aware of vegan offerings. Honestly, it wasn’t until I talked to the folks from VegNet (vegnetbend.
Former Chef Writes Cookbook about Not Cooking
I just talked to Tom Rice, a local former chef and author of a new book (only available online for now at eatefficiently.com) called The I'd-Rather-Not Cook Book: Bachelor(ette) Culinary Science.
Pho Sho! Pho is at Marz Bistro
Marz Bistro, which was bought by the Blacksmith’s chef Gavin McMichael a couple of months ago, has been open for a few weeks now. I went in for lunch today and was stoked to see, among other lunch menu items, the elusive, beautiful creation known as Pho.
Want Some Karma with that Burger?: Common Table is serving fresh, local food with a purpose
The first thing you notice when walking into Common Table is the 20-foot-long black walnut table, which runs the length of the new non-profit café on Oregon Avenue. The restaurant, which occupies the former Cork location, has been open for just over a month. Yet, with minimal promotion, save a few articles (we wrote about the enterprise back in August) and some Facebook activity, the café has been packed for both lunch and dinner nearly every day of the week.
Brick Oven Pizza now at Brown Bag
We've just heard that Brown Bag at 129 NE 2ndStreet, which re-opened under new ownership after closing its doors last March, has added a mobile pizza cart to the fare offered on Fridays. We talked to Chris Richer, who took over the establishment.
Drinking in Halloween
Halloween is no doubt the best American holiday. It is impossible to explain to foreigners our passion for wearing panties in public with little ears and platform high-heeled shoes. Children love it because they get to wear costumes, go to parties, and of course, get plenty of free candy. Adults love it because it means getting to escape who they really are, drink until they are silly and hide behind a sexier, more tawdry version of themselves. Nothing is sacred on Halloween night, even Big Bird has been turned into a trampy female transvestite for the sake of having the snarkiest outfit of the evening.
