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Who’s hungry?

With more than 350 restaurants, cafes and carts included in this guide, you’ll have no shortage of spots with which to satisfy your craving for Northwest cuisine—or Asian, American, Indian, Italian, Mexican, seafood, steak—or just about any other type of world food you can imagine. (OK, Central Oregon still doesn’t have a dedicated Korean food spot, but we’ll keep hoping…

Not only does this guide include hundreds of listings for Central Oregon lunch and dinner spots, but it’s also the space we reserve each year to highlight the area’s  Restaurant of the Year, Food Cart of the Year and Rookie of the Year. Who gets the honors? You’ll have to read on to find out.

In addition, keep your foodie game on point by reading about the Food Trends for 2018, and then get up on the history of this region (here’s lookin’ at you, newcomer) with our story about eating in vintage Bend.

Are you hungry yet?

Because we’ve been famished ever since we started making this guide…

• Restaurant of the Year: Bos Taurus

• Food Cart of the Year: Scoutpost

• 5 Food Trends for 2018
• Rookie of the Year: Wild Oregon Foods

• Go Old School

Click here to search our online Restaurant Listings >>>

5 Food Trends for 2018

This article appears in Apr 11-18, 2018 and Restaurant Guide 2018.

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Restaurant Guide 2018

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
April 11, 2018

<h1>Restaurant Guide 2018</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />April 11, 2018</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full aligncenter aligncenter"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/landing.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/landing.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-35291" /></a></figure> <h2 class="content_h2">Who's hungry?</h2> <p> <b>With more than 350 restaurants, cafes and carts included in this guide, you'll have no shortage of spots with which to satisfy your craving for Northwest cuisine—or Asian, American, Indian, Italian, Mexican, seafood, steak—or just about any other type of world food you can imagine. (OK, Central Oregon still doesn't have a dedicated Korean food spot, but we'll keep hoping...</p> <p></b>Not only does this guide include hundreds of listings for Central Oregon lunch and dinner spots, but it's also the space we reserve each year to highlight the area's&nbsp; Restaurant of the Year, Food Cart of the Year and Rookie of the Year. Who gets the honors? You'll have to read on to find out.</p> <p>In addition, keep your foodie game on point by reading about the Food Trends for 2018, and then get up on the history of this region (here's lookin' at you, newcomer) with our story about eating in vintage Bend.</p> <p>Are you hungry yet?</p> <p>Because we've been famished ever since we started making this guide...</p> <ul> <li><a href="/bend/Content?editor=true&amp;oid=5643174" target="_blank">Restaurant of the Year: Bos Taurus</p> <p></a></li> <li><a href="/bend/Content?editor=true&amp;oid=5643117" target="_blank">Food Cart of the Year: Scoutpost</p> <p></a></li> <li><a href="/bend/5-food-trends/Slideshow/5649714/5649780" target="_blank"></a><a href="/bend/5-food-trends/Slideshow/5649714" target="_blank">5 Food Trends for 2018 </a></p> </li> <li><a href="/bend/Content?editor=true&amp;oid=5643182" target="_blank">Rookie of the Year: Wild Oregon Foods</p> <p></a></li> <li><a href="/bend/Content?editor=true&amp;oid=5643126" target="_blank">Go Old School</a></li> </ul> <h2 class="content_h2"><a href="/bend/LocationSearch?locationSection=2125065&amp;sortType=name" target="_blank">Click here to search our online Restaurant Listings &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></h2> <p> </p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/special-issues-and-guides/restaurant-guide-2018-5648999/&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=35283&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/special-issues-and-guides/restaurant-guide-2018-5648999/&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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