Breakfast and Lunch Guide 2023

Editor: Nicole Vulcan

Our annual Breakfast and Lunch Guide puts a spotlight on the sunnier parts of the day, offering ideas for breakfast sandos before the work day, an alternative to the Sunday-brunch ritual of the Bloody Mary, some ideas for lunch on a budget, a musing on the perfect pastry from a local expert and so much more. Read on for ideas about how to fully enjoy some of the tastiest parts of the day!

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Reporters: Julianna LaFollette, Armando Borrego

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Publisher: Aaron Switzer

On the cover:

Illustration and design by Jennifer Galler. This deconstructed sandwich is zany, punny and a fun lighthearted approach to our 2023 Breakfast and Lunch Guide! Please enjoy!

When it comes to dining out, don’t let dinner have all the fun!

My Kingdom

for a Sandwich

By Armando Borrego

There’s a brilliant song from the ‘60s called, “Well-Respected Man.” In the song, Dave and Ray Davies, brothers and founders of English rock band The Kinks, harmonize about the delicate pretensions and self-satisfaction of the man who wakes up early. It’s the kind of satirical-social-commentary tune that British super groups were all about, but I will gladly disagree on one front; early in the morning, there are few delicacies more satisfying than a delicious breakfast sandwich. If you’re at all like me, and you’re out the door with a little extra time on your hands before clock-in, then you’ll understand the need for bacon, egg and cheese. So, join me, on my hunt for an amazing breakfast sandwich.

A search for the tastiest breakfast bites around

Photoby Jennifer Galler

Bend Burger Co – Redmond Burger Co

Bend Burger

1939 NE 3rd St

Bend, Oregon 97701

541-382-1914

Redmond Burger

249 NW 6th Street

Redmond, Oregon 97756 541-316-5262

Bendburger.com

The Burger Company started in 2008 as a small family owned business. We serve up 100% fresh chuck roast patties from NW Natural Beef, hand formed and served to order. Our burger buns are made fresh every day along with our homemade sauces and hand cut french fries. Our vegetables are also hand cut here at the restaurant. We cook all of our steaks over a wood fire.

Our goal is to make fresh high-quality products for you to enjoy.

We know you have a lot of choices to make when choosing where to dine and we thank you for choosing us today and for choosing to buy local!

Blissful Spoon

65 NW Newport Ave, Bend, OR 541-241-8181

blissfulspoon.com

@blissfulspoon

Fabulous food with no guilt. What you eat is so important to your overall health! That’s why we make everything in-house, including all of our desserts and breads. Our focus is on fresh, local, quality ingredients and it makes a difference you can taste!

Come and visit us in our location in Downtown Bend, grab some gluten-free pastries and a coffee, or join us for breakfast, lunch or Sunday brunch. Specialty cocktails available.

Our kitchen is open from 9am until 2pm, and you can come and grab a drink and/or pastries until 2:30pm.

Brand 44 North

8060 11th St, Terrebonne, OR (541) 316-3280

Come in & enjoy our at home family-friendly atmosphere. Whether you’re looking at our local brands on the walls or trying to win a stuffed animal out of our elk themed claw machine. You’re bound to enjoy our.... home-baked fresh pastries, specialty French Toast, classic breakfast options, full espresso bar, amazing Bloody Mary’s & Mimosas, grab & go bakery case. Vegan, gluten free & dairy free options available. Locally owned & operated. Women owned business. We support our local farmers & ranchers. Lunch & breakfast served all day. Thursday-Monday. 6am-2pm.

Big-O-Bagels

If flashes of highlighter-orange construction crew sweaters coming in and out of a front door was any sign of a business’ success, then Big-O-Bagels is doing more than fine. This bagel spot is putting out a great breakfast sandwich called The Eye-Opener, and I wouldn’t be doing a breakfast roundup right if I didn’t include it. While you wait for your sandwich, savor the aroma of freshly toasted bagels permeating the cozy ambiance. With melted cheese cascading over a cooked egg, resting atop a generous serving of crisp bacon, and all enclosed within a bagel of your choice, it’s a wholesome breakfast sandwich that fuels your day’s endeavors.

Great Harvest Baking Co.

First up, an amazing bacon, egg and cheese on toasted white bread. It’s a no-nonsense sandwich, with the same approach applied to the delicious bread and desserts this bakery provides daily. Something worth noting: fans of scrambled eggs, I have found the sandwich for you. Under this roof, in the heart of downtown, they’re serving up this sandwich with what I can only describe as a scrambled egg patty. It’s a daring choice in a world of fried-egg sandwiches, and it’s one that makes you crave another bite, as every mouthful is a fusion of savory bacon, fluffy egg and a garlic herb spread that I’ve been dreaming of since.

Photos by Armando Borrego

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Nancy P’s Café

and Bakery

Hidden between the overhanging branches of apple and aspen trees lies a charming building painted in an arresting saffron hue with dark trim. At first glance, it might be mistaken for a residence, but fortunately for us, it’s Nancy P’s Café and Bakery. This establishment boasts an extraordinary breakfast and lunch menu while continuing to produce delectable bread, pies and even treats for our four-legged companions. After a bit of silent deliberation, I went with the savory pocket, a meal of all of my breakfast favorites wrapped in a delicious baked dough heated in a panini-press to order. The collection of local art that happily decorates the walls and the breakfast pocket’s herbs and salt that dance on my tongue are reasons enough to have a seat and a coffee to savor this one with.

Sparrow Bakery

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Sandwich,

Imagine a serene Sunday morning with the sun’s first rays illuminating the landscape, casting a reddish hue in the sky that’s tinted with a hint of smoke. The desert morning’s lingering chill finds a pair of deer huddling in your yard. I can assure you, it’s mornings like these that are the perfect time to hop in the car and beat the 8am line at Sparrow Bakery. The Bacon-Breakfast Sandwich, seemingly tailored with me in mind, features bacon, avocado, arugula aioli and a perfectly poached egg. After a night of celebration for a friend’s birthday, this sandwich forms a harmonious union with a Bloody Mary, capable of settling even the most stubborn of wine headaches. The true revelation though, no cheese is needed, as the handrolled croissant foundation is delicious decadence enough.

Photos by Armando Borrego

Chicken Shanty

63455 N Hwy 97 #72, Bend, OR 541-797-6980

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Bend is an amazing town with an ever so growing food scene, one of the newest additions being The Chicken Shanty! Located in the Cascade Village Shopping Center. The Chicken Shanty specializes in fried chicken, delicious homemade sauces, crispy fries, and seasonally rotating menus! Locally owned by 26-year-old Entrepeneur, Joey DeMello. The Chicken Shanty only serves cage free, natural chicken with no hormones or steroids ever! We love what we do, and we love serving our community some truly fresh, fried chicken. Come support your new friendly, favorite chicken shop down at 63455 N Hwy 97 #72. Open 7 days per week from 11am-8pm daily.

Cross-Eyed Cricket

20565 NE Brinson BLVD

@crosseyed.cricket

The Cross-Eyed Cricket: Bends Best Country Bar! A “The Cricket” we’re here for a good time. We’ve got live music, Thursday Line and Swing dance lessons, pool tables and great food! If you love to dance we have an open dance floor Friday and Saturday nights. For the sports fan we have NFL Sunday Ticket with big screens and our projector dedicated to the best represented fan base.

Deschutes Brewery

1044 NW Bond St, Bend OR 541-382-9242

deschutesbrewery.com

@deschutesbrewery

Bend’s first brewery is still one of its best spots for food and drinks. Patrons can grab burgers made from local meat served on buns made in house, a rotating seasonal salad or choose from a host of diverse appetizers and entrees for every taste. And don’t forget to check out the beer list full of old favorites and new, continuously rotating experimental brews that you won’t find anywhere else. Our choice? An elk burger with a Bachelor Bitter (and, of course, a pretzel to start!).

Burrito Sunrise

Parked right next to the Midtown Ballroom/ Domino Room, lies a whimsical food truck reminiscent of a Wes Anderson film, but there’s nothing quaint about the flavors this yellow burrito truck is serving from 7am-1pm. Fresh from a bike ride and wanting to reward myself I ordered a burrito lovingly named, “The Hog.” The ingredients are a cornucopia of powerful flavor, featuring egg, hash brown, cheddar cheese, grilled bell peppers and onion, salsa verde, ham and bacon all swaddled safely in a warm flour tortilla. This massive feast is well-made and a breakfast choice that’ll help you switch up the classic sandwich offerings. Note, this culinary gem is only open Tues.-Sat.,

but hey, gold is a valuable thing, right?

Looney Bean

This eclectic coffee shop, just behind the High Desert Chamber Music office, reminds us that the English muffin has a rightful claim to the throne of breakfast sandwiches. Its bacon, egg, cheese and pesto aioli production, courtesy of Sparrow Bakery, delivers simplicity and reliability that makes me think of the work trucks I see puttering through the city streets these early mornings. Working downtown, trust me when I say, it is getting harder and harder not to grab one of these sandwiches every morning.

Photos by Armando Borrego

The Art of the Pastry

A conversation with Cari Brown of Café des Chutes

By Nicole Vulcan

It’s hard to understate the creativity and care that Cari Brown and her husband, the fine artist Christian Brown, put into everything they touch. Between owning and operating the artists’ space, The Workhouse, and now operating the hip, delectable, European-inspired Café des Chutes next door, the Browns infuse artistry into everything they touch.

Cari Brown started out baking bread at age 17, eventually making her way, in 2009, to the “bread location” of the much-heralded Sparrow Bakery, a company she worked for off and on, eventually managing Sparrow’s Old Ironworks location up until 2018. When Sparrow opted to move out of the 100-year-old Old Ironworks building, the Browns took over the space, opening up Café des Chutes in late 2021.

Initially offering a lineup of Sparrow’s baked goods, Café des Chutes eventually moved into baking its own goods, and now, in 2023, bakes all of its own sweet and savory offerings — besides a couple gluten-free items on offer from Bend’s Blissful Spoon.

Eating some of Café des Chutes’ baked goods have me dreaming for days about getting more. With that in mind, I sat down with Cari Brown to talk about “the art of the pastry.”

Top: B.A.T croissant breakfast sandwich.

Middle: Smoked trout sandwich.

Bottom: Pistachio croissants.

Photos courtesy Cafe Deschutes

Source Weekly: Tell me about some of the top sellers at Café des Chutes.

Cari Brown: We’ve gotten a little bit of notoriety for our Oregon Roll — which I didn’t name it name it the Oregon Roll, a regular customer did — but it’s a croissant dough rolled with the house-made marionberry jam topped with a hazelnut butter-like doughnut glaze; it’s really good. But I think the sleeper, the one that I love the best, is the Pistachio Croissant. It’s a riff on a traditional French-style almond croissant. We use an apricot jam that we make, and we make the pastry cream in house. We roast pistachios and do all that. Those are twice baked, so they’re really excellent way to use leftover croissant. It’s very standard practice.

The pastry cream has a little bit of orange zest, and butter and confectioners’ sugar, ground pistachio. And then you got a pretty healthy topping of whole pistachios on top and a little bit of powdered sugar. I worked on the recipe for that for a while. The day where finally I was like, OK, I got it, I took a bite and I was like, I’m not going to eat the whole thing — I’m just gonna take a bite and I’m gonna throw the rest away. But I literally just stood over the garbage can and ate the whole thing.

SW: What is the “art of the pastry?” What makes them so good?

CB: In all transparency, because of the limitation of our facility, we don’t do our own do lamination here. We buy laminated dough

from a really lovely bakery. Really though, the thing about pastry that makes it so good is the butter. We use as high a quality butter as we possibly can with a really high fat content, and the pastry dough that we get is lovely. There’s this real art to laminating dough I got to learn. One of my primary functions, besides bread baking, was laminating for Sparrow [Bakery], and it’s a process.

SW: Tell me something that you’re really excited about in regards to this place.

CB: One of the things I’m really proud of is that despite some fairly significant handicaps in the realm of our facilities and our space — we have a tiny kitchen — we have really done our best to adhere to making the highest-quality products that we can and making everything from scratch that we can. Sometimes that is really hard and it’s complex. But, you know, it was important to me that we have a hand in most of the things that we make.

As far as our sandwiches go, I think it’s probably the smoked trout sandwich. That’s one of my favorites. So for that we take the highfat-content, unsalted creamery butter and we whip it and we make a compound butter that has fresh dill, lemon zest, lemon oil, salt and pepper, a little bit of Aleppo pepper. And that’s the base for the sandwich. We also

make our own radish and carrot pickles that go on that, which are really lovely and good. Then we get this really beautiful wild-caught trout from up in Washington, and it’s just a rich, unctuous, really flavorful sandwich with this sharpness that you get from the pickle.

Café des Chutes

50 SE Scott St., Bend

Fall hours: Fri-Sat 8am-9pm, SunMon 8am-2pm cafedeschutes.com

Cari Brown glazes a batch of bundt cakes at Café des Chutes.

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El Rancho Grande

63455 N Hwy 97, Bend, OR 541-312-2022

Dinewithdiablo.com

What makes El Rancho Grande so special? Well-made, authentic Mexican recipes, carefully crafted, and prepared. If you savor the flavors thoughtfully, they tell a story — a story of family origins, obstacles overcome, and an enduring optimism that feeds the soul. It’s more important than ever to savor the simple things that make an ordinary day special. Sharing a meal is one of those things. And the people who love to cook those meals share something too: they care enough to give of themselves to nourish those around them, one exceptional dish at a time.

The Hideaway Tavern

939 SE 2nd St, Bend, OR 541-312-9898

hideawaytavern.com

Whether you are looking for a local sports bar filled with like-minded sports fans, searching for an inspired breakfast menu with “Bend’s Best Bloody Mary” (23-ounce The Proud Mary or Game Changer Bloody Mary), or simply desire an lunch destination with a casual, kid-friendly approach, the Hideaway restaurant checks all these boxes. Sit comfortably in one of our many leather sofas and turn your attention towards over a dozen flat screen TV’s while chomping down on some progressive dishes like our Tempura Fried Mushrooms, Stromboli, Buffalo Cauliflower, or famous half-pound burgers and hand-cut fries. We have three cable providers with NFL Sunday Ticket, Pac 12 Network, UFC Pay-Per-View fights-just about any sports programming you can imagine--plus a game room, Golden Tee and the Oregon lottery. Whatever you do, you are guaranteed a good time at the Hideaway Tavern.

Jackson’s Corner

845 NW Delaware Ave, Bend, OR 541-647-2198

jacksonscornerbend.com

@jacksonscornerbend

Jackson’s Corner has proudly offered a menu that highlights the efforts of Central Oregon ranchers & farmers since 2008. We rotate hyper seasonal dishes alongside classic crowd favorites to offer an array of fresh & delicious fare. Our in house bakery skillfully crafts loaves of artisan bread and house made pastries each morning. Stop by today for a meal, local Still Vibrato coffee, huge beverage selection including local beer & low intervention wine, and grocery staples for your everyday needs. We are thrilled to offer a hub for locals and visitors alike to gather around a nourishing meal.

CHICKENSHANTY CHAO LAY

What’s more breakfast and lunch than bagels and falafel? That’s what diners will find at the new location Bo’s Falafel, which opened in September after closing its original location in April.

The new Bo’s is at 70 SW Century Dr., #120 in Bend.

The Cascade Village Shopping Center saw the opening of Chicken Shanty in August, offering fried chicken, chicken sandwiches and 12 house-made sauces. It’s located at 63455 N. Hwy 97 #72 in Bend.

In August, the Westside Yard in Bend welcomed a new spot, Northwest Raw, featuring organic, plant-based juices, smoothies and more. The juice bar is the second location for a place that originated in Ashland, Ore.

Northwest Raw is located at 210 SW Century Dr. in Bend.

Bend’s east side celebrated the opening of a new branch of a beloved Central Oregon brand, when Cascade Lakes Brewing Company opened its new pub on Reed Market and 27th. With a sweet rooftop, great food and brews, this was a welcome addition to the far-southeast side.

It’s located at 21175 SE Reed Market Rd.

In July, food cart Luckey’s Woodsman opened its brick-and-mortar location in Sisters, featuring its “offgrid provisions” and seasonal cuisine.

its seasonal cuisine.

Luckey’s is located at 352 E. Hood Ave., Unit B in Sisters.

In June, the Source Weekly reported on the opening of Chao Lay, an Asian-fusion restaurant located in the business complex just south of St. Charles Medical Center. The menu draws from the owner’s Thai heritage as well as bringing in flavors from other parts of Asia.

Find Chao Lay at 1462 NE Cushing Dr., #140, in Bend.

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Kobold Brewing

The Vault Taphouse – Redmond

245 SW 6th St. Redmond, OR 541-504-9373

Welcome to Kobold Brewing!

The Lair – Bend

1043 NW Bond St. Bend, OR 541-797-2178

Visit us at our tasting rooms at The Vault Taphouse in Redmond and The Lair in Bend!

The Vault Taphouse is the only place in existence with the complete Kobold lineup of beers, fed directly from our brewery in Redmond. Watch your favorite sports team on TV or play cards or cribbage with your friends. Maybe catch us on a night of Brewery Bingo or Taphouse Trivia. You can sit on the outdoor patio with your favorite four-legged friend, warming up by the outdoor fireball or fire table, or get some sun on your face and check out the always changing scene in downtown Redmond and Bend. koboldbrewing.com

Life & Time

Westside – 320 SW Century Dr Eastside – 1462 NE Cushing Dr www.lifeandtime.com

Life & Time Free Range Fast Food. At Life & Time we believe you shouldn’t have to sacrifice time for health so we created Free Range Fast Food. Life & Time offers Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner with fast food staples and more exotic offerings made in house and cooked fresh when you order. We only use the best natural and fresh ingredients.

Looney Bean

961 NW Brooks St, Bend, OR 541-408-9142

@looneybeanbend

Delicious coffee, real fruit smoothies, and a wide variety of espresso-based drinks...Roasted in Bend! Pastries from Sparrow Bakery delivered fresh every morning. Located downtown in an historic “Old Bend” cedar cottage, with a giant backyard right next to mirror pond on the Deschutes River.

CUBAN KITCHEN

Redmond’s food cart scene is pretty robust these days, and it got even more plentiful when Blacksmith Public House opened in April. With a full bar, a coffee bar, an indoor stage, a rooftop viewing platform and space for at least six food carts, Blacksmith has a little of everything.

Blacksmith Public House is located at 308 SW Evergreen Ave., in Redmond.

A gas-station burrito place rose again in April, when the east side Super Burrito opened in a new location. Get carnitas, fajitas, enchiladas, and fried whole fish at:

DEARMOM CAFE

ELSUPERBURRITO

425 NW Windy Knolls Drive in Bend.

A popular new Thai restaurant, Dear Mom, opened in early 2023 on the west side of Bend, featuring Thai classics as well as specialties including Roti and the Midnight Chicken – chicken wings in a caramelized fish sauce. Diners really took to the new place, taking the runner-up spot in our 2023 Best of Central Oregon readers’ poll.

It’s located at 320 SW Century Dr., #140 in Bend.

In March, Bendites once again got to enjoy the flavors of Cuban Kitchen, which closed during the pandemic and re-opened in its new location along Third Street. Expect classic Cuban-style pressed sandwiches, Ropa Vieja, tostones and other Cuban specialties.

It’s located at 1600 NW Third Street in Bend.

In December 2022, local favorite Phð Viet went under new ownership. Longtime faves are still on the menu, but new owners Son Nguyen, his wife, Lisa, and sister Kim are making small tweaks to make the place their own.

Find Phð Viet at 1326 NE Third Street in Bend.

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CHULO’S PAPI MOUNTAIN BURGER SHIMSHON

February saw the opening of a new location for Shimshon, the Israeli food spot that started with a food cart at Midtown Yacht Club, featuring falafel, za’atar fries, mezza plates and more.

The new location is in The Grove at 921 NW Mt. Washington Drive in Bend

Bend’s west side got a new café featuring locally baked confections, tea and coffee when A Taste of Bend opened in February on Galveston Avenue. Lunch-y items are also available, with charcuterie boxes from Wild and Free Charcuterie also on offer.

A Taste of Bend is located at 1227 NW Galveston Ave., Unit C, in Bend.

La Pine got a new place to hang out and enjoy the mountain views when Wetlands Taphouse opened just off the main drag in late 2022. Featuring food trucks and an indoor taproom, the spot supplied a much-needed hangout (and a great lunch spot) for La Pine.

Wetlands is located at 51375 Hwy. 97.

September 2022 also saw the opening of Mountain Burger, a burger place in Northwest Crossing that aimed to reinvent the American burger joint to include locally sourced ingredients, healthful salads and creative cocktails. Peeps, the burgers — which include plantbased offerings — are inspired.

Find Mountain Burger at 2727 NW Crossing Dr. in Bend.

In September 2022, the former Foxtail Bakeshop location became Papi Chulo’s, a Mexican joint featuring yummy birria and other tacos, burritos and more, at affordable prices. Pair the food with a Michelada or Margarita and you have a pretty dang good lunch.

Find Papi Chulo’s at 55 NW Arizona Ave., Suite 60 in Bend.

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Mountain Burger

2747 NW Crossing Dr, Bend, OR 541-688-7177

mountainburgerbend.com

@mountainburger

We are reinventing the iconic American burger joint by offering locally sourced ingredients, meat and plant based alternatives. Dine in a friendly, full service, comfortable atmosphere, enjoy healthy salads, creative cocktails and good community, all while supporting our mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable dining. We have implemented eco-friendly practices at every level, cooking on electric grills powered by renewable energy, and composting food waste. Mountain Burger has set a goal to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2025 and serve incredible food along the way. Come and see for yourself.

NW Raw

210 SW Century Dr., Bend, OR 541-668-7334

nwraw.com

Northwest raw is a 100% organic, gluten free, plant based restaurant & juice bar. Serving breakfast, lunch, cold-pressed juice, smoothies, cocktails, soups, salads, and more. Whether you’re seeking holistic health or extreme adventure… NW Raw fuels your body & mind with energy like no other elixir on earth. Get raw.

Richard’s Sliders

245 SW 6th St, Redmond, OR 541-419-8933

richardssliders.com

Richard’s Sliders is a family-owned food cart offering classic, American style, smash burger sliders, breakfast sandwiches, and waffle fries. You can eat one, or you can eat a bag full! Proudly serving Redmond, Oregon since 2023! Open Monday through Saturday, 11 am to 8 pm. Order ahead at www.richardssliders.com.

Roam, the modern restaurant attached to Downtown Bend’s Oxford Hotel, offers delicious choices; a classic mimosa at $9 or a signature mimosa for just $1 more. Roam’s signature mimosa boasts several unique flavors to choose from, including lychee, prickly pear, papaya and passion fruit.

Another great brunch option, and something a little stronger: The sophisticated espresso martini. A great tasting, alcohol-heavy choice is the Lemon Tree’s Hazelnut Espresso Martini.

The potent and aesthetically pleasing beverage mixes Crater Lake’s regular and hazelnut flavored vodka with Kahlua and espresso. While the martini is on the more expensive side, at $16, it’s does leave you energized. The upscale breakfast and lunch joint has several coffee options that are all great for sober friends as well.

Right next door, conveniently, is another tasty brunch spot. As I perused the menu at Drake, I chose yet another caffeinated beverage that’s both cozy and potent.

The heavy $11 Irish Coffee.

An easy drinking classic, ideal for a cool fall morning.

The warm, sweet beverage is simple, including just Irish whiskey, coffee and whipped cream. The fluffy whipped cream on top adds a satisfying surprise to each sip. If you don’t like the strong taste of whiskey in the morning, this drink may not be for you.

These three brunch drinks, all unique and tasty, work wonders in bridging the gap between breakfast and lunch and delivering a nice buzz. But, in my opinion, a Bloody Mary still triumphs as the best brunch cocktail. It’s tough to beat the fiery mixture that oftentimes offers a full meal in one glass.

On mornings when you are both thirsty and hungry, the choice is simple;

A 24 oz. Proud Mary Bloody

from the Victorian Café. This massive morning beverage, priced at $17.99, is crafted with Victorian’s house-made Bloody Mary mix and a double shot of its infused pepper vodka.

The drink doubles as an appetizer, including a smoky prawn skewer with andouille sausage, pepper jack cheese, an olive and an array of yummy veggies, finished off with a crispy garlic breadstick. The Proud Mary Bloody embodies a classic brunch drink, offering an acidic, savory hair-of-the-dog remedy.

A mimosa is always a good bet.

Roam

10 NW Minnesota Ave, Bend, OR 541-382-7626

roambend.com

@roambend

Satisfy your food cravings at ROAM, featuring menus expertly curated by Chef Bryant Kryck that evolve with the seasons drawing upon locally-sourced ingredients and flavor inspirations from around the globe. Indulge in Modern American cuisine with options for all ages and dietary needs. Try delicious award-winning cocktails, Happy Hour shareables, indulgent entrees, and brunch delectables for all day dining. Enjoy the scenes of the season on the pet-friendly patio with plenty of shade in the summer and warming heaters in the winter while sipping on late-night cocktails, or join us inside for a casually elegant ambiance.

Strictly Organic

6 SW Bond @ the Box Factory

541-330-6061

Open daily 6am to 4pm (7am Sunday)

Pick up in the lobby or at Drive thru

Have breakfast with us at the Box Factory any time of day! Customer favorites include our Bronco and Vegan Breakfast Burritos – big enough to share!

Delicious Tacos and Rice Bowls. House-baked goodies are always available – including vegan and gluten-free options. And, of course, Certified Organic, Certified Fair Trade coffee roasted here daily!

Now that Autumn is here, warm up with one of our London Fog tea lattes, a MyChai or our Mizuba Matcha.

The Victorian Café

1404 NW Galveston Ave, Bend, OR 541-382-6411

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The Victorian Cafe has reinvented the idea of breakfast, putting a modern spin on traditional food fare and embracing the idea that morning dining should be an “experience”. Our menu fuses classic breakfast items and with creative and decadent food combinations that will twist your taste buds into an unforgettable experience with each bite of our mouth-watering omelets, skillets and eggs Benedicts.

Come see for yourself what the west-side hype is all about with our amazing location on 14th Street in Bend. This unrivaled breakfast and lunch dining experience has made “The Vic” a local Bend favorite and winner of one of the “best” places to dine in Bend more than 15 times.

Best of Breakfast and Lunch

Eat early, eat often at these winning places in Central Oregon’s biggest readers’ poll

When you want to find out what’s good, ask a local. And what better way to find out what locals like than from the Source Weekly’s original, biggest and best readers’ poll?! Below are the winning restaurants, coffee shops and other spots in our annual Best of Central Oregon readers’ poll in 2023.

Best Bagel

1st Big O Bagels

2nd Rockin’ Dave’s

Best Bakery

1st Sparrow Bakery

2nd Nancy P’s Café and Bakery

Best Bowl

1st Active Culture

2nd Café Yumm!

Best Breakfast

1st McKay Cottage Restaurant

2nd The Lemon Tree

Best Breakfast Burrito

1st Burrito Sunrise

2nd Bend Breakfast

Burrito

Best Breakfast Sandwich

1st Sparrow Bakery

2nd Rockin’ Dave’s

Best Burger

1st Blue Eyes Burgers & Fries

2nd Bend Burger Co.

Best Doughnut

1st Richard’s Donuts and Pastries

2nd The Dough Nut

Best Eggs Benedict

1st The Victorian Café

2nd McKay Cottage Restaurant

Best Falafel

1st Bo’s Falafel

2nd Shimshon

Best Food Cart

1st Toasty

2nd The Americana Truck

Best Food Cart Lot

1st On Tap

2nd Midtown Yacht Club

Best Lunch

1st Jackson’s Corner

2nd Valentine’s Deli

Best Sandwich/Deli

1st Valentine’s Deli

2nd Cheba Hut

Best Takeout

1st Wild Rose

2nd Spork

*This is just a sampling of the winners in our Best of Central Oregon poll! Check out bendsource.com to see all the winners.

Best Smoothie/ Juice Bar

1st Mother’s Westside Juice Café

2nd Emerald City Smoothie

Best Bloody Mary

1st The Victorian Café

2nd Washington Dining & Cocktails

Best Cold Brew Coffee

1st Backporch Coffee

Roasters

2nd Thump Coffee

Best Coffee Shop

1st Backporch Coffee

Roasters

2nd Thump Coffee

Best Drive Thru Coffee

1st Dutch Bros

2nd Backporch Coffee

Roasters

Best Local Coffee

1st Thump Coffee

2nd Backporch Coffee

Roasters