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Roam On Over to Minnesota Avenue for Inspired Seasonal Eats & Drinks

A new executive chef, menu tweaks, and revamped patio make Roam at The Oxford even more enticing

by Donna Britt September 1, 2022May 27, 2025

While Labor Day signals a change of seasons with long, hot days giving way to longer, cooler nights, dining on the patio is a wonderful way to ease into autumn. That’s why one of Bend’s favorite downtown restaurants has renovated and revamped its outdoor patio seating this year so their guests, locals and visitors alike, […]

Food & Drink

Garden Delight: Basil Carbonara

With tomatoes beginning to ripen, now’s the time for a dose of garden-fresh pasta

by Ari Levaux August 31, 2022July 29, 2024

My children have an arrangement with an area farmer. After the weekly farmers market, he supplies them with surplus produce, which they sell at a roadside stand in front of our house. They split the proceeds 50/50, with the farmer getting half, and the boys dividing the other. What’s in it for me, you ask? […]

Food & Drink

New Restaurant at The Oxford

Roam offers a variety of urban-organic dishes made from locally sourced foods

by Nicole Vulcan October 6, 2021February 23, 2025

A new ground-floor restaurant is now open in the Oxford Hotel, where the Mother’s Downtown Kitchen was recently located. The new restaurant, called Roam, had its soft opening the last weekend of September. Roam offers “a variety of urban-organic dishes made from locally sourced foods,” as described by the restaurant’s listing on the reservations site Open […]

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