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Best Of 2015
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Best Dinner in Sunriver
Sunriver Brewing Company
Whether Sunriver is your destination or you’re just passing through, chances are good you’re making a stop at Sunriver Brewing. How do we know? This year, the budding brewery claims the lunch, dinner, and bar categories. Though it only started production in January 2014, the brewery is already expanding, doubling its capacity to 5,000 barrels […]
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Best Band
Corner Gospel Explosion
The sound is familiar, yet entirely new: For the past three years, Wilderness has been at the forefront of Bend’s local music scene with an alt-country noise-pop that wildly merges slamming drumbeats and soaring guitar riffs. But in January, drummer Bradley David Parsons stepped forward, along with Wilderness bass player Nick Graham and his brother […]
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Best Missed Opportunity
Troy Field
To be fair, the City tried to “save” the not-quite-an-acre of grass enclosed in chain link across from City Hall. It made an offer on the parcel but Bend-La Pine Schools wanted more. While no one would disclosed what the City offered, it was clearly less than the $1.9 million price tag on the property’s […]
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Best Yoga Studio
Namaspa
Welcoming students to its 90-degree heated power yoga room, a small sign in the waiting area of Namaspa states “come as you are, not as you should be.” “There are no mirrors here,” says co-owner and founder Suzie Newcome, who encourages people to let go of any ideas of needing to be good at yoga […]
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Best Breakfast
McKay Cottage
McKay Cottage has been open in Bend for nine years, but truly, the restaurant, set in a cozy 1916 bungalow, feels like it has been part of Bend’s lifestyle since time immemorial. Winning Best Breakfast six years in a row in a town that loves its breakfast is no easy feat, and McKay Cottage takes […]
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Best Brewer
Paul Arney—Ale Apothecary
This year, the vote for Best Brewer gives particular insight to Bend’s brewing scene because it so accurately reflects the two directions the industry is going right now. The runner-up: Tony Lawrence, brewmaster and co-founder of Boneyard Beer, a man whose IPAs flow in seemingly every bar in Oregon and Washington. And, the winner, by […]
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Best Change of Heart
Crow’s Feet Commons
Last year, the Source’s most-read story was our coverage of the City’s decision not to renew Crow’s Feet Commons’ lease on the Mirror Pond Plaza, that City-owned courtyard between the ski/beer/coffee shop and Drake Park. Fans of the popular shop were outraged. Owner David Marchi was upset and confused. But it was about more than […]
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Best Kombucha
Humm Kombucha
Kombucha has come a long way from its roots as a funky homemade brew peddled by hippies and New Age types. The fermented tea drink has taken off in the last few years, with a number of breweries popping up in Central Oregon. But Humm Kombucha, originally known as Kombucha Mama, is a local trailblazer. […]
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Best Chef
Joe Kim—5 Fusion & Sushi Bar
Joe Kim, lead chef at 5 Fusion and two-time James Beard nominated chef, is a fusion himself. Much of his childhood was spent between San Francisco—where he was born and his dad lived—and La Pine, where his mother moved when he was 6 years old to raise him and his sisters. Kim’s dad is Korean, […]
