(Photos by WAVEjourney.com) If you haven’t tried Chops, you’re missing out. For starters, the Sisters restaurant, which features live entertainment Friday, Saturdayand Sunday evenings, is downright beautiful, with its high ceiling, rustic beamsand posts,and wood-burning, floor-to-ceiling brick fireplace. Even better, the food lives up to its surroundings in a monster way. Every dish we tried…
(Picture above: clam chowder, photo courtesy of WAVEJourney.com) Dining at Black Butte would be a treat simply based on the view alone. But then there’s the food. My friends and I had been wanting to return ever since seeing the Lodge’s new menu. As usual, the meal didn’t disappoint. Our only struggle was agreeing on…
Going out to breakfast is a Central Oregon pastime. For that matter, so is going out to lunch. So as sad as I was to hear that Sisters’ wonderful fine dining establishment, Jen’s Garden, had closed, I was darn happy to hear that it had morphed into the Cottonwood Café. I was even happier to…
If you’re looking for a local brewpub where the food is as much of a draw as the craft beer, I have four words for you: Welcome to Immersion Brewing. One look at the menu of this upscale, downhome gastropub, which opened just a year ago, tells the tale. Braised short ribs. Duck. Pork shank….
by linden gross, One Stop Writing Shop What do you do when you’re a chef of Korean-Irish descent, co-owner of a celebrated restaurant and a James Beard Award semifinalist? If you’re Chef Joe Kim, you open an Asian noodle house, of course, so you can cook the kind of casual fare that doesn’t fit in…
What kind of food do you think of when you hear wine bar? A charcuterie board and hot artichoke dip? The Open Door Wine Bar has both of those (done brilliantly, I might add), but this rustic Sisters joint has so much more. For starters, it’s also an art gallery with live music on Monday…
Clams. Photos courtesy of wavejourney.com. Tired of snow, ice and, yes, comfort food, my three friends and I took a trip to Northern Thailand in downtown Bend for a complete change of pace. At Wild Rose, a casual, friendly restaurant on NW Oregon Avenue, we started with some of the best cocktails I’ve had in…
BY LINDEN GROSS Chef Kayo Oakley’s restaurants have been Bend institutions for decades. Still, his current establishment—Kayo’s Dinner House and Lounge, which he opened in 2010—was not on my radar until my dad and brother started going there for Happy Hour a couple of years ago. Their accounts of oysters on the half shell and…
Photo and Story by LINDEN GROSS, One Stop Writing Shop & Oregon Local Getaways Most breakfast and lunch joints don’t offer monthly wine dinners. But Birdies Café isn’t exactly typical. Before November’s wine dinner highlighting Spain’s Rioja region, a friend and I popped in for a mid-week breakfast. After ordering an orange juice/pomegranate mimosa to…
by LINDEN GROSS, One Stop Writing Shop & Oregon Local Getaways If you haven’t been to Black Butte Ranch recently, you’re in for a surprise. A new, spectacular building that’s so modern it doesn’t have a single right angle has been constructed on the edge of Phalarope Lake, offering in-your-face views of the Cascades. My…
