Melanie from Cog Wild sends this along: You are invited to bring your ID and come to Phil’s Trailhead this Thursday & Friday from 3pm to dusk and demo a Marin hardtail, full suspension and free ride bike. Cog Wild will be doing shuttles up Skyliner so you can have a fun ride back to the trailhead and Trinity Bikes is shuttling to the Lair. If you are not familiar with Marin Bikes (pronounced Ma-rin), … Continue reading →
In May, the Blacksmith‘s Wednesday tastings were all Martinis. For June, they’re doing beer: Prepare to achieve beervana. During June, the Blacksmith Restaurant + Bar + Lounge gives brews their due at Wednesday tastings featuring beers from near and far. Join the Blacksmith’s own beer connoisseur’s study group in the Anvil Room every Hump Day. Here’s the line-up for June: June 4 = International Beers June 11 = East Coast Beers June 18 = West … Continue reading →
This is huge: Deschutes County is now posting restaurant inspection scores online and publicly available. Go here to see them. Every restaurant in the County—even places that are not nominally restaurants, like hotels, or small food counters in other types of establishments—is online, it looks like. You can search by name, city, score, and address, and you can click through to the details for each restaurant, which include: The comments and details of each violation; … Continue reading →
Each year at the Bite of Bend, a local "Iron Chef" contest is held, featuring—obviously—local chefs from some of the fine dining establishments in the area. I get a big kick out of this (though I’ve never actually watched an entire match), so naturally I got excited when I saw this year’s Iron Chef contestants show up on the ad HOC blog. 1st round Saturday 12:00pm Jeremy Baumgartner (Fireside Red) vs. David Berger (Pleidies at … Continue reading →
In today’s paper, there is a photo and caption indicating that the new Sonic Drive-In up on the north end (the old Tom Tom Diner location) is open already. Cool, but puzzling as I drove by there as recently as Friday, and it sure didn’t look like it was anywhere near ready to open, construction-wise. But since I keep hearing from a bunch of people how they can’t wait for Sonic to open, this’ll be … Continue reading →
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