Restaurant Guide 2019
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…
Restaurant of the Year
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…
Rookie Food Cart of the Year
Stellar sandwiches that our team craves over and over prompt a new category in our Restaurant Guide awards There are a lot of great food carts in Bend, making a lot of great food. But in the case of Hogan’s Hoagie Stop, we felt their sandwiches warranted creating an entire new category: Rookie Food Cart…
Rookie of the Year
An internationally focused menu and a central location spell success for Lemon Tree Co-owner and co-chef Betsy McDonald is outside The Lemon Tree when I arrive, arranging chairs and adjusting the delicate flowers that adorn each table. It’s been raining off and on in Bend this week, but McDonald is sure people will dine outside…
Food Cart of the Year
Fresh, wild-caught sushi—with a made-to-order option—make this cart stand out Ronin won the Food Cart of the Year in our last Best of Central Oregon readers’ poll—and for good reason—so it was not a big surprise that our staff also wanted to give it a nod during our Restaurant Guide staff awards. For sushi lovers,…
5 Food Trends for 2019
Coffee reinvented Can coffee still be a trend? We’ve seen nitro, cold brew and a desire to know where our beans come from—but there’s still room for the unexpected. Starbucks has opened Reserve Roasteries in top global cities; playgrounds for master roasters, mixologists and baristas to play with rare, single-origin coffees in an immersive space.…
