Loyal voters have chosen EsthetixMD the “Best” in the realm of medical and cosmetic enhancement services for 10 years running. The Practice Manager Emily Talbot attributes that longtime win to loyalty and experience among the staff. “We have a great, tenured, experienced team that — from our patient care coordinators up to our providers — […]
Best Medical/Cosmetic Enhancement Services
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Best Tattoo Artist
Chase Tafoya lived all over California before making Bend his home in 2012. He’d visited his parents, who’d just moved here, loved it and relocated three weeks later. “Bend is such an artist town,” Tafoya says. “From the arts and entertainment, the entrepreneurial spirit, to the recreational sports; the people who live here are all […]
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Best Local Farm
While the “Best Local Farm” category may be new, David and Megan Kellner-Rode’s Boundless Farmstead is going strong in its eighth season of growing food. After about a half-decade of learning the ropes on their 20-acre mixed vegetable farm just north of the Badlands, the Kellner-Rodes seem to be hitting their stride. With more than […]
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Best Beauty Boutique
The owner of Wren & Wild Clean Beauty on Minnesota Avenue. is very clear about the intent of her business. With more than 88 brands, Mandy Butera frequently adds new ones, but only if they meet strict criteria. “Clean ingredients,” she says. “We look for specific things that they don’t carry like parabens or phthalates […]
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Best Vintage Clothing
Stepping into Revival Vintage feels like entering a cocktail party attended by disembodied — if gloriously outfitted — party guests, transported from any number of the 20th Century’s fashion eras. Hovering near the entrance, black leather bombers and blazers rub elbows with ‘60s denim chore coats and nylon athletic team jackets. Western pearl-snap shirts cluster […]
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Best Furniture Consignment
Just like Bend’s famous roundabouts keep traffic moving smoothly through the city, Roundabouts Home Consignments keeps quality furniture flowing through the community — and thankfully, out of our landfills. Its combination of quality, community focus and environmental consciousness makes Roundabouts Home Consignments a well-deserved winner of Best Furniture Consignment 2025. Husband and wife team Gavin […]
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Best Boba
Good grades, graduations and winning home games are reasons Loana Perez, owner of Teacupfuls, has received an abundance of business from the Bend community. Restless after Perez sold her cleaning business in 2017 and inspired by her kids’ love for boba, the wild Teacupfuls was born. Perez opened the boba business with the intention to […]
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Best Brewer
It’s not hyperbole that winning the “Best Brewer” category — in beer-crazed Bend — might be one of the most illustrious “Best Of” categories there is. But tell that to now-five-time-winner Nate Doss, the co-owner and head brewer at Bevel Craft Brewing, and, humble guy he is, he’ll turn the conversation right back to the […]
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Best Mocktail & Best Happy Hour
Hawkeye & Huckleberry Lounge is self-described as a modern cowboy steakhouse. The “modern” part just might be the Cool Hand mocktail — if you can imagine a cowboy under the stars next to a campfire sipping a cucumber-mint beverage. Chef Carlos Anthony Ochoa says the drink, chosen by the public as the Best Mocktail in […]
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Horoscope Week of August 21, 2025
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In traditional Chinese medicine, the heart is the seat of joy. It’s also the sovereign that listens to the wisdom of the other organs before acting. Dear Leo, as you cross the threshold from attracting novelty to building stability, I encourage you to cultivate extra heart-centered leadership, both for yourself and […]