Jeff Hunt, Spork’s executive chef and co-owner, has a love for all things pickled. “We love pickles of all types at the restaurant,” affirms Hunt—and with a primary focus on fermented pickles, quick pickles, and vinegar pickles, that love is evident throughout the flavorful dishes on Spork’s menu. Korean-style fermented pickles, known as kimchi, commonly […]
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Jeff Hunt, Spork
Chef Profile
Jeff Hunt likes pork. So much so, that Spork, a food cart turned proper restaurant, purposefully includes a reference to the swine. “It’s a delicious animal and super versatile,” says Hunt. “There’s a lot you can do with it.” Bend already has an impressive and diverse food scene—a successful diversity bolstered both by supportive and […]
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What in the World? Today’s News!
House Party! Since the late ’70s, American homeowners have enjoyed positive equity (the value of their home was greater than their mortgage debt). That all changed in late 2007, when the economy began its nosedive (it also coincided with Ben Bernanke taking over as fed. chairman). For the first time in almost six years and […]
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Best Evolutionary Step
Spork
From airstream to mainstream, last year’s winner for Best Food Cart has moved out of its shiny silver kitchen on wheels and into the former Fox’s location on Newport Avenue. We commend Spork for moving on up in the restaurant world and continuing to provide a consistent and eclectic menu with everything from crispy gluten-free […]
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Corn, Four Ways
Few foods say summer like corn
Grilled Sweet Corn Corn is one of the cheapest and easiest vegetables to prepare, which is why it makes an appearance at darn near every summer barbecue. The problem is, most backyard chefs botch it by under or overcooking, neglecting to use salt and butter, or grilling after shucking; no, no and NO! The ancient […]
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Welcome to the Hood
Why Spork is the new Cheers
Remember when Brother Jon’s first opened on Galveston Avenue? It was awesome (and remains so). Nearby residents finally had a comfortable neighborhood spot that serves everything from mac and cheese, to RPM IPA, Rainier and Bulleit Rye on the rocks. Now, Newport Avenue neighbors have something similar in what is the second food cart-turned-brick-and-mortar success […]
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Smells Like Southern Spirit
Dixie dishes in the Great Northwest
Catfish and crawdads may not dominate every menu around town, but peppered throughout Bend are a representative number of Southern food dishes—certainly enough to make us as happy as pigs in slop! (In a good way. Seriously! That was meant as a compliment.) Fried Chicken Even that guy who orders the veggie quinoa bowl, deep […]
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Spork: Now Open on Newport Ave.
Good news—more delicious food now available on Bend’s westside. After a soft opening on Saturday (following a friends-of-the-restaurant party on Friday), Spork, the godfather of Bend’s food cart scene, is now open full time inside a permanent location on Newport Avenue (in what was Fox’s, the short-lived pool hall). We ate there on Saturday and […]
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Outta the Airstream and Into a Building: Spork to open in May
And Cuppa Yo is right next door. Good news, Spork fans: The owners of the popular global-street-food-serving Airstream trailer are moving their operation inside a vacant storefront on Newport Avenue, next door to Cuppa Yo. Co-owner Erica Reilly hopes to be up and running by late May. Reilly, along with co-owner and chef Jeff Hunt, […]
