After living in the South of France in a small farming community for 10 years, Philip and Judy Lipton returned to the States to settle in Central Oregon. Realizing no one was doing French cuisine in Bend, they wanted to create the kind of neighborhood bistro they frequented when they lived in France. Southern French […]
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Get Sauced
Arthouse cinema serves spaghetti and gunslingers
If you like cheese with your spaghetti—and by cheese, I mean a campy cowboy movie— then Spaghetti Western Wednesday at Tin Pan Theater may be for you. The concept is an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner, including Caesar salad and garlic bread, paired with a Spaghetti Western movie for $10. Adding to the thrills: You don’t know […]
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Chai It, You’ll Like It
Local company develops a dreamy spicy tea
Sugar and spice and everything nice. That’s not referring to little girls, but instead refers to chai, the sweet, warm, spicy tea you find in many coffee houses. The word itself means “tea,” so calling it chai tea is a little redundant. If you were trying to be accurate, you’d call it the proper Indian […]
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Little-Known Cafe Has New Owners
97 Café serves county employees and visitors
Walk into the Deschutes County building and you’ll see 97 Café. It has an ephemeral vibe with two free standing counters, but the coffee shop, previously named 5J Café, has been there for six or seven years and has had several owners. Most recently 97 Café was purchased by Kristal Jaquith, a previous employee. Jaquith […]
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Building Community, One Meal at a Time
The secret to making friends in Bend: Food. Lots of food.
When Jesica and Rich Carleton moved to Bend from Alaska three years ago, they only knew one person in town. Carleton was on Facebook one day, where she found an article about a couple who started an open-invitation, casual dinner every week to connect with friends and family. They called it Friday Night Meatballs. Jesica […]
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This Side’s Blowin’ Up
As Bend expands north and east, here are some pizzas, pastries and pubs to try right now
Time to break out of your downtown dining cycle and explore new options on the north and east sides, where you’ll find some familiar faces, and a new one. 10 Barrel opens second local pub You may have noticed 10 Barrel’s gorgeous, new 60,000-square-foot building on the east side. The majority of that space will […]
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Little Bites: Tidbits from the world of food and drink
Two distilleries bring home awards and a local favorite changes hands
Cascade Alchemy wins multiple craft spirit awards Cascade Alchemy received a gold medal for its Classic Vodka and a Silver and Best of Category medal for its Chai Tea Vodka from The American Distillers Institute’s 11th annual judging of Craft Spirits. The competition is considered the largest and most-respected judging devoted to craft spirits from […]
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“Demorelizing” Adventures in Mushroom Hunting
The rain promises mushrooms, but can you find them?
Have you heard the morel buzz lately? Maybe you’ve seen photos of a fresh bounty in a fabric-lined basket posted on Facebook by a happy friend? It brings out FOMO (fear of missing out) in some of us—especially me. That’s how my adventures in mushroom hunting began. The first time I looked for mushrooms was […]
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Little Bites: Celebrate Local Food, a Pop-Up Farmers Market and Dine Out for Good
Local Food & Farm Discovery Day Celebrate local food by tasting it and meeting Central Oregon merchants and producers at Savory Spice Shop on May 19. The Central Oregon Seed Exchange will be there to tell you which local seeds do well in our climate. Visitors can also plant seeds to get their own gardens […]
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For New Beer, Head Northeast
Monkless joins a new corner of Bend’s beer scene
It wasn’t terribly long ago that residents of Bend’s northeastern quadrant didn’t have much in the way of local beer. Folks nearby downtown or in the Old Mill are spoiled for choice, with 10 or so craft brewers and many more fine pubs within walking distance. Around the northeast, though, Bridge 99 Brewery and the […]