Aspect Boards & Brews How can you beat a beer and a taco for $5 while sitting in the sunshine watching the world go by Bend’s westside? You can’t. Aspect Boards & Brews, the skate and snowboarding shop that expanded a couple years ago to include 12 taps as well as sangria and a variety […]
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Happy Hour Review: The Backyard Brick Oven Pizza & Sports Bar
Those living and working on Bend’s northside have a new place to enjoy happy hour while waiting out the rush hour line of traffic that builds up on Empire Ave. The Backyard Brick Oven Pizza & Sports Bar opened earlier this year and provides diners a casual spot for happy hour cocktails and appetizers. Whether […]
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Happy Hour Review: Kayo’s Dinner House and Lounge
Happy hour fine dining without the high price tag
If you’re looking for a taste of luxury — the kind in which oysters, Kobe beef and Ahi tuna reign supreme — then you’re in luck: Kayos is just the ticket, and comes without a steep price tag. Unassumingly tucked off third street, next to an Econo Lodge, you wouldn’t believe Kayo’s has fireside lounges […]
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Happy Hour Guide—Summer 2016
The advent of summer is a time for joy. The sun returns with heat and calls on everyone to drop everything and run into the great outdoors. But there is the rub. How many of us can heed the sun’s call and unchain ourselves from the work a day world that keeps us indoors? When […]
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Happy Hour Guide—Winter 2016
Happy Hour is a time to leave the cares of the day behind and that’s easy with the Source Weekly’s Happy Hour Guide, because we’ve put the leg work in for you. We’ve traversed the land from Bend to Sunriver to Redmond and Sisters uncovering the Happy Hours of an aficionado’s dream. As the sun […]
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Drink Guide—Summer 2015
Yes, it is good to have routines, like James Bond always ordering the same drink, shaken, not stirred. But, we also think that it is a wide world of beverage choices out there and not worth limiting the horizons completely. For this edition of the Drink Guide, we have shuffled the order a bit—and beefed […]
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Drink Guide—Summer 2015
Yes, it is good to have routines, like James Bond always ordering the same drink, shaken, not stirred. But, we also think that it is a wide world of beverage choices out there and not worth limiting the horizons completely. For this edition of the Drink Guide, we have shuffled the order a bit—and beefed up the content. […]
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Cocktail Compass—Winter 2015
In our current edition of the Cocktail Compass, we have added a Beer Booklet; starting on page 19. In past issues, these guides have been more about a list of venues and happy hours. But we recognize your hunger (thirst?) for more—and we’re here to give you a double shot of information this time around. […]
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Primary Ingredient
Don’t forget, beer is 95 percent water
Boy, do we love water. Especially water with a dash of malt, yeast and hops. Springtime in Bend means a fresh round of seasonal releases from breweries around town. Here’s a short list of what will be available soon, and the beers that their brewers are looking forward to drinking this spring. 10 Barrel Brewing […]
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Classy or Trashy via Velvet
Looking for a chill, lodge-style lounge with a touch of swank? Enter 805 NW Wall and Velvet, where 40oz PBRs are chilled in a champagne
Looking for a chill, lodge-style lounge with a touch of swank? Enter 805 NW Wall and Velvet, where 40oz PBRs are chilled in a champagne bucket or served trashy in a brown bag, and an array of homemade infused drinks left me rather whoozy. A cozy duplex setup featuring “somewhat healthy” (quoting the staff) Tapas foodstuffs – flatbread pizzas, quesadillas, caprese salad, soup and sliders – Velvet fills a void downtown, with a friendly staff (tell Jill and Nolan I said, “Howdy!), a nouveau yet rustic air, and a Happy Hour running from 5-9pm Tuesday-Saturday.
Word-of-mouth has already made Velvet a hot spot after hardly a month in biz, and the attention to detail – flat screens bordered by rough timber, velvet couches where George Costanza would be proud to place his derriere – is what makes Velvet truly unique. Consider the Beer Baller: An invention to rival the pacemaker, which Velvet partner Sky Pinnick discovered while shooting for his Rage Films in France – ice-chilled drafts with a self-serve tap, brought to your table in a quantity to satisfy a Rugby team. Drink up, eat well, and don’t miss DJ Moksha every Thursday night.
