If brewpubs are Bend’s bread and butter, then Washington is Bend’s jambalaya. Like the Southern dish that pairs rice with a panoply of meats, Washington in Bend’s NorthWest Crossing offers a culinary assortment that’s hard to pin down, but not hard to put down. While...
I love exploring for great places to eat and relax almost as much as random strangers now suddenly enjoy searching for Pokémon in my backyard. Needless to say, the irony wasn’t lost on me this week when one of my favorite online review sites began...
Some of my fondest summer memories are of Grandma making homemade ice cream: soupy bowls dotted with black vanilla beans, intricate drips of chocolate syrup in the style of Jackson Pollock, and the occasional chunk of rock salt in my mouth to offset the milky...
Bend's teaching restaurant Elevation delivers terrific meals For some, the idea of an evening’s fine dining meal being prepared by fledgling culinary students isn’t going to sound ideal, but not so fast. Dining at the Cascade Culinary Institute’s Elevation restaurant in Bend is sure to deliver...