Crab Fest!

Deschutes Brewery‘s annual Crab Fest is taking place tomorrow and Saturday! This is their all-you-can-eat crab extravaganza: Crab Fest is back! Get your fill of crab and damn tasty Deschutes brews at our annual Crab Feed Beer Dinner. Since this event sells out every year, we’ve added a second date … Continue reading

Papa Murphy’s pizza is expanding

The Papa Murphy’s take-and-bake pizza place on the north end of town (on the corner of 3rd and Revere) is expanding, and will be closed for the first part of next week it sounds like. Word is, they will be closed Monday through Wednesday and then re-open on Thursday with … Continue reading

Free Potato Day out at Rainshadow Organics

Today from 10am until 3pm, Rainshadow Organics out in Terrebonne is hosting a Free Potato Day to give away some 18 tons of potatoes to the community: We grew 100 tons of organic potatoes this year in 14 different varieties. You’ve seen them in Whole Foods around the Pacific Northwest. … Continue reading

Beer and tacos

Crux Fermentation Project tonight is hosting an unusual beer-themed event: We’re hosting a multi-brewery, multi-taqueria beer/taco pairing extravaganza. 10 Barrel + El Sancho Good Life + Burrito Deportivo Boneyard + Spork Crux + Crux This is taking place from 4 to 9pm today down at Crux; I don’t know specifically … Continue reading

Thanksgiving dining around town (if you don’t have plans)

If you don’t have plans for dining at home or with family or friends fors Thanksgiving (they fell through, you don’t want to cook, whatever), there are of course a variety of options in town to check out. (Updated, see below.) McMenamins Old St. Francis School is holding a Thanksgiving … Continue reading

Saturday’s best bets: McMenamins, Locavore, more

Some cool stuff going on today that you might want to check out. McMenamins Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day: Technically this should be on the 17th but that’s a Tuesday so the 14th works for McMenamins annual Irish-in-September fun. All day long today you’ll be infused with the Irish with Irish … Continue reading

Lunch Bites: Taco Tuesdays at Timbers East

This is pretty much an eastside restaurant mini-review feature that I’ll be running periodically. You can view my “lunch bite” criteria at this first post. Yes, it’s been a little while since the last “Lunch Bites” post, and this one might have you scratching your head: Timbers East Bar & … Continue reading

The 2013 Deschutes County Fair starts today

Today is the first day of the Deschutes County Fair & Rodeo that runs through Sunday, August 4th, taking place at the Fair & Expo Center over in Redmond. This is always a family favorite event (one we don’t get to often enough, unfortunately) with tons of stuff going on, including … Continue reading

Munch and Music starts tonight!

Tonight down at Drake Park in downtown Bend is the first of this summer’s Munch and Music events, featuring free music from The Motet and food available from a wide variety of vendors as well as a beer garden with beer from Deschutes Brewery. This is definitely one of the … Continue reading

The Bite of Bend Bite Week

The annual Bite of Bend is coming up next weekend (Saturday and Sunday the 29th and 30th) but this year there’s even more: Bite Week, starting tomorrow (Sunday the 23rd) offering up a week’s worth of food and culinary events to lead up to the Bite. The Bite of Bend … Continue reading