1st Place: Five – Modern Japanese Bar & Retaurant 821 NW Wall St., Bend 541-323-2328 2nd Place: Kanpai 990 NW Newport Ave., Bend 541-388-4636
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Best Sushi
Kanpai Sushi
1st Place: Kanpai 990 NW Newport Ave., Bend 541-388-4636 2nd Place: Five – Modern Japanese Bar & Retaurant 821 NW Wall St., Bend 541-323-2328
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Poke Row Opening Soon in NWX
The team from 5 Fusion & Sushi Bar will open Poke Row, a counter-service poke bar in Northwest Crossing this spring. Poke is a popular raw fish salad that commonly uses ingredients including soy sauce, green onions and sesame oil. The dish originated when fishermen seasoned the cut-offs from their catch as a snack. Customers […]
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Where do people rideshare #inBend?
Just in time for V-Day, Lyft’s new top 10 reveals the top restaurant destinations
Use it to get home from the bars. Use it to shuttle your errant relatives to and fro while you’re at work—or on the mountain. Or, use a ridesharing service to take you and your bae out to dinner. Since ridesharing apps began to be allowed in Central Oregon in 2017, plenty of people have […]
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Top Ramen: Ajii gives you some very good reasons to stop eating grocery store ramen noodles
When I asked my parents if they wanted to eat at Ajii Asian Kitchen with me, they asked me what kind of food they served. I explained it was a Japanese rice and noodle place that specializes in ramen from Chef Joe Kim, the brains behind the delectable 5 Fusion & Sushi Bar. They looked […]
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The Tyranny of Good Taste
5 Fusion spoils diners, supports students with James Beard dinner
If you still haven’t gone to a food tasting, don’t believe the skeptics. Vanity Fair called food tastings “tyrannical,” and the New York Times likened the pre-scripted dining experiences to being “a cog in an invisible machine.” Critic Peter Wells wrote, “The night is exhausting, the food is cold, the interruptions are frequent. The courses […]
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2015 Best Of Central Oregon
As voted by Source Weekly readers
Central Oregon has a particular manner of evolving: It likes its classics—like, Phil’s Trail and breakfast at McKay Cottage (this year’s winner of Best Breakfast, for the sixth year in a row). But it also accepts newcomers, and quickly embraces and absorbs them. Like, consider that Phil’s Trail is only about a decade old and […]
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Top Local Dishes from 5 Fusion Head Chef Joe Kim
It is hard to deny the good luck of numerology when considering that this year the popular downtown sushi bar 5 Fusion celebrated its fifth year—and, coincidentally, its head chef, Joe Kim, was nominated for a prestigious James Beard Award. Considered the Oscars of the food world, a nomination is an extremely impressive honor. Kim, […]
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Joe Kim, 5 Fusion
Chef Profile
In February, when executive chef and part owner of 5 Fusion, Joe Kim, read the James Beard Foundation’s 20 nominees for the Best Chef in the Northwest, he did a quadruple take at his own name. “It’s a big deal, because you don’t do anything for it. You don’t ask for it. They find you,” […]