Restaurant Guide
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Restaurant of the Year

Wild Rose continues its popularity through the pandemic—and sets it sights on a new endeavor
Avatar photo by Nicole Vulcan

Around seven and a half years ago the Itti family moved from Port Townsend, Washington, to Bend, and our food scene has not been the same since. At that point, they’d been operating a Thai restaurant in Port Townsend for over two decades, and, seeing that Bend already had a handful of Thai restaurants, the […]

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Food Cart of the Year

At The Tin Pig, the chicken is the star of the show
Avatar photo by Nicole Vulcan

It is impossible for someone to mention The Tin Pig or even The Podski without me instantly craving a chicken sandwich. Whether it’s the spicy Nashville Chicken, or the Sweet T that comes with pimento cheese and honey, foodies around Bend know The Tin Pig is the place to go for a chicken sando cooked […]

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Baking the Magic: The making of the Source Weekly’s 2021 Restaurant Guide cover ▶ [with video]

The creative force behind our cookie cover shows us how it got done
by The Source Staff

The Source Weekly’s 2021 Restaurant Guide is graced with a super-cool cover made from real-life cookies crafted by Just Around the Bend Cookies, a Bend-based small business. In this video, Kathie Reid-Bevington talks about how she made the magic happen. Thanks to Just Around the Bend Cookies for this fun and creative collaboration! WATCH: The […]

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Restaurant of the Year – Zydeco Kitchen & Cocktails ▶ [with video]

Donating meals, saving jobs and serving the community: Zydeco delivers the fine dining experience to people who need it most
Laurel Brauns

Our Restaurant of the Year for 2020 is a vibrant downtown gem and a cornerstone of the small-business community in Bend. Our readers voted Zydeco Kitchen & Cocktails both Best Dinner and Best Food Service in our Best of Central Oregon readers’ poll in 2019. For our staff-selected Restaurant of the Year award in this […]

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Restaurant Guide 2020

The Source Eating Team makes its picks for Restaurant, Rookie Food Carts of the Year
The Source Eating Team

In other years, we’ve put out our annual Restaurant Guide earlier in the season, giving locals and tourists alike a guide to what’s good to eat in Central Oregon. This year, everything is different. Restaurants and bars continue to grapple with new and changing regulations, with customers who might not be ready to comply, and […]

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Rookie Food Cart of the Year – Sunny’s Carrello ▶ [with video]

Bend’s answer to hearty, made-from scratch Italian fare
Avatar photo Cayla Clark

Where does one go for good Italian in Bend?  This year, the new player on the food cart scene is Sunny’s Carrello, which earns the tie for our 2020 Rookie Food Cart of the Year. Owned by Amy Wright and her wife Courtney, Sunny’s is Bend’s answer to hearty, homemade Italian food—the kind that any […]

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Restaurant Guide 2019

The Source Staff

Warning: Craving-inducing photos, stories and listings ahead. It’s time for the Source Weekly’s annual Restaurant Guide—a labor of love that has us getting hungrier with every page. Inside, you’ll find listings for every restaurant on our radar offering table service in Bend, La Pine, Redmond, Sisters, Sunriver, Terrebonne and Tumalo (in a change from previous […]

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Restaurant of the Year

El Sancho: Rise from the cart
Lisa Sipe

Multiple food carts and a brick-and-mortar—plus delightful tacos—paint the picture of Sancho’s success It’s not fine dining like some of our past Restaurant of the Year choices, but we’re guessing just the mention of El Sancho is making you descend into daydreams about barbacoa, Oaxacan cheese and pineapple serrano margaritas. Our restaurant of the year […]

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