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Three Ingredient Cocktails

Approachable cocktails for the home mixologist – with a booze-free option, too!

Three. The perfect combination of brevity and rhythm. Often used to represent the concept of โ€œcompleteness.โ€ Beginning, middle, end. Third timeโ€™s a charm. Eat, drink and be merry. And… three-ingredient cocktails โ€” the most lasting and constant of cocktail constructions. Three truly is a magic number! Not only are three-ingredient cocktails some of the most […]

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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.

Whether itโ€™s in honor of Dry January, or for any other reason, plenty of people are looking for fancy drinks that donโ€™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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Generations: A Cocktail Tour

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

What makes a drink โ€”or a barโ€” extra special? Is the experience different if youโ€™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 tablesโ€ฆ and sometimes, having very […]

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Breakfast Burrito Roundup: Bend Breakfast Burrito

The burrito joint’s meteoric rise

Bend Breakfast Burrito started in 2021 and quickly became a town favorite, snagging the win for Best Breakfast Burrito in the Source Weeklyโ€™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, youโ€™ll fall for the simplicity and mastery of the Strictly Organic breakfast burrito.

It may not be the first place you think of when you think of burritos, but itโ€™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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Breakfast Burrito Roundup: Burrito Sunrise

The burrito here is a lifeboat meal

Being a work hard-play hard type of crew here at the Source Weekly, we fairly regularly find ourselves, after one of Bendโ€™s many awesome concerts happening on a โ€œschool night,โ€ needing the heavy sustenance that a breakfast burrito provides. With that, it didnโ€™t take this crew long to discover the bright yellow truck on Greenwood […]

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Breakfast & Lunch Guide Fall 2022

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

When it comes to good eats, dinner shouldnโ€™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 yearโ€™s Breakfast and Lunch Guide aims to […]

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Fall Drinks: PSL

The drink so popular it has its own acronym

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 โ€œtattooโ€ on the arm of designer Annelie Kahn for that weekโ€™s cover. Since then, it seems that the PSL phenomenon has only gotten more intense. […]

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