Will be in Bend in August and looking for some fun restaurants. Both casual and nice. Any info on corkage policies would be great as well.
It’s been a couple years since I’ve been there, but had a really nice meal at 900 Wall and an amazing meal at 5 Fusion (sushi) sat at the counter. Have heard rave reviews for Zydeco and all the breweries are very good. Crux would be one I’d go to.
We were just in Bend for a couple days last week. Dinner first night at 900 Wall. Food was good, service was OK (some major kitchen pacing difficulties), but really fun, eclectic wine list (at relatively reasonable prices). Our other dinner was at Joolz, a quasi Mediterranean restaurant just a couple blocks up the street on Wall. Really liked the food at this place. Had a bunch of small plates and shared the fresh fish entree. Lots of fun flavors all around. Wine list was a bit more pedestrian. YMMV.
Michael
The best restaurant is Ariana.
Book now.
+100
Trattoria Sbandati.
Patrick is correct…Ariana is the best restaurant I’ve been to in Bend.
Todd’s recommendation of Sbandati is also really good. Have breakfast at McKay’s Cottage if you’re a breakfast guy.
Also, more of a bar and grill, but Drake was pretty good for more of a family place if you need something like that. And if you’re a coffee person, don’t miss Backporch.
Thanks guys, good list
As mentioned, 900 Wall is very good as well - the food is fine and the wine list has quite a few options.
Unfortunately it closed down recently.
Went here last month. Food is still great. Did with the wine pairing. Some interesting pairings. Not always typical. Wines from throughout the world. One pairing was not on spot for us but the others were and great talking points. Staff were wonderful. Stole some ideas. Frozen blue cheese grated on salad. Using frozen pebbles to hold oysters on the half shell. All the food was great
They closed on Monday without any warning, terrible.
Breakfast. We went to two different breakfast places on our last trip that were quite good. One was the Lemon Tree which is a classical sit down breakfast where everything was excellent. The other is Sparrow Bakery. You can sit down and eat or take to go. The ocean roll is what they are famous for but their breakfast sandwich were excellent also. Also got some fresh bread to go.