As usual, Angela Moore and Jared Rasic were hungry. Thankfully, the Bite of Bend rolled deep with meat-laden food carts, cheeses, and brief smatterings of vegetables. Moore’s history writing the Source’s CHOW section and Rasic’s love of all things edible laid the basic foundation for a surgical strike against anything served in a dish, on […]
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Little Bites – Top Chef
Judging Central Oregon’s Top Chef competition is a tough job, but someone’s got to do it. Fortunately, I was one of those someones last weekend at the Bite of Bend. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Top Chef pits two culinary masterminds against each other in a head-to-head cooking competition that features a […]
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Bite Week
Taste meets hands-on learning
Synonymous with fine dining and craft spirits, it’s no surprise that Bend is home to Central Oregon’s largest food festival, the Bite of Bend, which runs June 17-19. This well-attended community event attracts foodies for three days of feasting and playing, featuring 40 food vendors, a bartender brawl, a beer run for the grown-ups, and […]
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Small Outdoor Concerts in Big Demand
Bend is known to be heavily into the music scene. International, national and local groups alike unpack and set up on varying stages around town. This summer all over Central Oregon there will be concerts both large and small in venues across the desert. Although the seemingly famous groups can draw an enormity of screaming […]
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Food Like Never Before
Bite Week offers extraordinary dining
As part of Bite of Bend’s Bite Week, three different chefs will present special dinners. But really, these are more than simply a dinner; each meal is a mini-seminar on exotic and local foods, a journey (for one of the dinners, literally, out past Smith Rock!) and a you-had-to-be-there meal. Wild Rose‘s executive chef and […]
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Our Picks 6/18-6/24
thursday 18 Fermentation Celebration BEER—The Fermentation Celebration features unique, experimental, and limited release beers all in one place—many of which can only be tasted at the event. Not big on beer? Wine, cider, and kombucha will be flowing as well, plus live music all day long. 4-10 pm. Old Mill District, 520 SW Powderhouse Dr. […]
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The Lighter Side of The Thermals
Hutch Harris finds new light for The Thermals through stand-up comedy and children’s television
Hutch Harris was scared. The charismatic frontman of Portland’s post-punk power trio The Thermals had been thinking about trying his hand at stand-up comedy for years, but kept talking himself out of it before ever actually making it up on stage. Thoroughly comfortable thrashing around on stage every night directing the high-intensity rock shows that […]
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Taking a Bite Out of Summer
A bushel full of food-related events
June 19 – 21 Bite of Bend While Bend not uncommonly finds itself on Top 10-style lists for outdoor recreation and craft brewing, the local food scene has also been profiled in national publications. (Remember when the New York Times discovered The Lot?) And that attention is well-deserved. Bend’s food scene deftly bridges fine dining […]
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The Charge of the Bite Brigade
A Bite of Bend postmortem
What is wonderful about Bite of Bend, which came and went like a circus train this past weekend, is that it is a preview to an entire summer worth of eating. This is not some strange festival that pops up, teases you with an idea that life could be all about Ferris wheels and whirly-jigs, […]
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What in the World: Chefs, Contraception, Immigration, ‘Nice’ Guys and Beyoncé
CHEFS: Sunriver Resort‘s Chef Travis Taylor walked away from last weekend’s Bite of Bend Top Chef competition with the highest award—and a 10″ knife forged from layered copper and brass by local blacksmith Kellen Bateham. Travis is now qualified to compete at Bite of Oregon for the title of Iron Chef Oregon. COURT: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor […]