Ballers & Brews Opens Sept. 21

Ballers & Brews is opening next month in northeast Bend. It’s a mash-up of pickleball courts, cocktails and cravings. Owner Leslie Koegler is offering more than another food truck lot. There will be two covered pickleball courts that can be used year-round. In the winter, a vinyl wrap will enclose the heated courts. Court rentals will be $40 for an hour or $75 for two hours. Players will be able to reserve them two weeks in advance, but there will also be community hours for a more casual experience.

The lot will have six food trucks: 5^th Street Bagels, Bread and Bunny (sandwiches/salads), Chonie’s Pizza (Detroit style), Indodaddy (Asian food), Manzanita Barbecue and The Mighty Greek. Eventually Koegler plans to add an outdoor movie screen so families can spread a blanket on the astroturf and watch a film. There will also be two fire pits.

Two covered pickleball courts will be heated and wrapped with vinyl curtains in the winter. *Courtesy Nic Moye*

Inside will have a full bar, with mocktails, cocktails and an elevated wine list. “While I celebrate our pacific northwest beer, I don’t drink it at all, so having this great wine list was really important to me. It’s a very underserved part of our community. Cocktails as well,” Koegler says.

There will be five big screen TVs and five unisex bathrooms. There is also a 750-square-foot rooftop deck that seats 72 and will have an 85” TV, which can be rented for private events.

The venue will be dog friendly with a barking water bar for pooches. Koegler is also hiring Bend artist Janessa Bork to paint a mural at the barking bar and inside the taphouse.

The taphouse will have a full bar, five big screen TVs and five unisex bathrooms. *Courtesy Nic Moye*

The location is next to her business, KDEDirect on Redside Court, which makes brushless motors and carbon propeller blades for drones. She’s owned the land for several years before finally deciding on her concept of Ballers & Brews. Building the taphouse and courts from the ground up has allowed her to control every design detail from décor to providing direct gas hookups for food trucks, eliminating the need for giant propane tanks. The pickleball courts will open at 7am, Sunday, Sept. 21.

Ballers & Brews

Opens Sept. 21

Sun.-Thu. 11:30am-9pm, Fri.-Sat. 11:30am-10pm

Pickleball hours: Sun.-Thu. 7am-9pm, Fri.-Sat. 7am-10pm

20869 Redside Court, Bend

ballersandbrews.com/

This article appears in the Source August 28, 2025.