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Source Weekly Food Editor Donna Britt chats with Kita Café Founder James Gage about his Japanese comfort food offerings.

Hear how he landed on the name Kita and why he chose Japanese food and where you can find his delicious sandwiches, noodles, rice bowls, etc. in Bend.

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This article appears in Source Weekly October 12, 2023.

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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: James Gage, Founder of Kita Café 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 12, 2023

<h1>LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: James Gage, Founder of Kita Café 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 12, 2023</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">S</span>ource Weekly Food Editor Donna Britt chats with Kita Café Founder James Gage about his Japanese comfort food offerings. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_source_-_bend_don_t_break_101223.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_source_-_bend_don_t_break_101223.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-51650" /></a></figure> </p> <p>Hear how he landed on the name Kita and why he chose Japanese food and where you can find his delicious sandwiches, noodles, rice bowls, etc. in Bend.</p> <p><b>Listen now</b>:</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/bend-dont-break-kita-cafe-founder-james-gage" title="Bend Don&#x27;t Break: Kita Café Founder James Gage" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Bend Don&#x27;t Break: Kita Café Founder James Gage</a></div> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-bend-dont-break-james-gage-founder-kita-cafe-19984330/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=51645&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-bend-dont-break-james-gage-founder-kita-cafe-19984330/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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