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You Have Zero Proof

More bars are offering not just NA drinks, but full mocktail menus. Here are a few highlights from local places.

by Nicole Vulcan January 24, 2023March 19, 2025

Whether it’s in honor of Dry January, or for any other reason, plenty of people are looking for fancy drinks that don’t contain booze. Fortunately, plenty of bars are picking up on that fact and are offering not just the usual sodas or kombucha for the non-drinkers, but full-on mocktail menus featuring well-crafted ingredients. We […]

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Best of Drinks

Source Weekly readers know what’s up. These are the drinks, bars and bartenders voted “Best”

by The Source Staff January 24, 2023August 28, 2024

E very year, the Source Weekly’s Best of Central Oregon issue highlights the local places and people that Central Oregonians love most. We launch the contest, and then readers nominate the people, places and businesses they want to win in each of over 100 categories. Mark your calendars for July 5, 2023, the next “Ballot […]

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Generations: A Cocktail Tour

A Boomer, Gen Xer, Millennial and Gen Zer walk into a bar (or four) and sample the goods

by Jack Harvel Allie Noland Richard Sitts and Nicole Vulca January 24, 2023August 30, 2024

What makes a drink —or a bar— extra special? Is the experience different if you’re an experienced Boomer versus a fresh, young Gen Zer? For this Cocktails guide, a generational team of Source staffers hits four local haunts to find out, sipping the same drinks and sitting at the same tables… and sometimes, having very […]

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Breakfast & Lunch Guide Fall 2022

Breakfast burrito reviews, fall coffee recommendations & listings for all the breakfast & lunch spots in town!

by The Source Staff October 4, 2022August 2, 2024

When it comes to good eats, dinner shouldn’t always be the main attraction. Central Oregon is filled with stellar places offering up a tasty fall coffee beverage, an outstanding breakfast burrito or any number of other great options worth taking time out of your day to try. This year’s Breakfast and Lunch Guide aims to […]

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Fall Drinks: Cardamom Latte at The Commons

A splash of flavor at The Commons

by Allie Noland October 4, 2022May 19, 2025

Holding a hot, spicy, sweet drink in hand while walking in the chilly weather is a feeling that’s hard to beat when rounding up fall activities. It’s a simple pleasure that we forget about in the spring and summer months. This autumn season is all about drinks with a splash of fall flavor—and not the […]

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Fall Drinks: PSL

The drink so popular it has its own acronym

by Nicole Vulcan October 4, 2022October 4, 2024

Superfans of the Source Weekly may remember one issue in the fall of 2016, when we poked a bit of fun at the Pumpkin Spice Latte by superimposing a #PSL “tattoo” on the arm of designer Annelie Kahn for that week’s cover. Since then, it seems that the PSL phenomenon has only gotten more intense. […]

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Fall Drinks: Basic Black Coffee is Still a Thing

The simple black coffee is sometimes just the ticket

by Jack Harvel October 4, 2022November 10, 2024

Fall brings a whole slew of seasonal coffees. It’s not just pumpkin spice; coffee nerds have a bunch of fall flavors they bring out for spooky season infusing cinnamon, pecan, caramel apple and more. I, however, am not a coffee nerd — I drink Red Bull most mornings, for Christ’s sake. I’ve never drunk anything […]

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Breakfast Burrito Roundup: Los Jalapeños

Low Key and Delicious

by Nicole Vulcan October 4, 2022May 18, 2025

Not too long ago, I found myself waiting for a breakfast burrito outside a makeshift window, wind whipping around me while I dreamed of bacon, eggs, grilled peppers and salsa. I’d biked there, so there was no choice but to wait out in the wind. These were the lengths I would go to in order […]

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Breakfast Burrito Roundup: Bend Breakfast Burrito

The burrito joint’s meteoric rise

by Jack Harvel October 4, 2022November 10, 2024

Bend Breakfast Burrito started in 2021 and quickly became a town favorite, snagging the win for Best Breakfast Burrito in the Source Weekly’s annual Best Of poll. Starting as a catering and delivery service, the business would eventually find its current home at Boss Rambler on Galveston in Bend. Bend Breakfast Burrito quickly became a […]

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Breakfast Burrito Roundup: Strictly the Yummiest at Strictly Organic

After the first bite, you’ll fall for the simplicity and mastery of the Strictly Organic breakfast burrito.

by Allie Noland October 4, 2022July 4, 2025

It may not be the first place you think of when you think of burritos, but it’s a go-to spot to satisfy the big breakfast burrito craving that everyone experiences. Anytime I walk by, drive by or go into Strictly Organic, I almost always see people leaving the shop with a smile on their face […]

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