Nicole Vulcan

With matcha gaining traction over coffee, especially among Gen Z, it was only a matter of time before this little ol’ paper’s readers’ poll got on board and added the powdered Japanese green tea beverage as an official category. Consider us caught up. The inaugural winner in our Best Matcha category is, like many local […]

A longtime Bend food spot, Dump City Dumplings, is soon to close up shop forever. After 17 years, the place that started as a cart and later expanded to brick-and-mortars in the Old Mill and eventually Galveston Avenue is announcing its closure at the end of August. The owners of Dump City, which serves Chinese […]

A longtime Bend food spot, Dump City Dumplings, is soon to close up shop forever. After 17 years, the place that started as a cart and later expanded to br

Rich Winiarski was in his truck cutting up onions when I popped in on him on a recent Monday — a similar scene to what he’s been doing since 2015, when he first opened Big Ski’s Pierogis in Bend. This one, however, is one of just a handful of Mondays ahead for the truck, located at […]

As of this week, Bendites have a new place to indulge a sweet tooth after dinner. A European-inspired pie shop, Pie Maison, opens August 29 on Bond Street in downtown Bend, serving a host of pie flavors from 1 to 9pm Tuesdays through Saturdays. The opening menu includes Marionberry Streusel, Gluten-Free Marionberry Streusel, S’mores, Cookies […]

It’s been open since the spring, but this September, Bend Tea and Art Lounge, offering people a place to sip tea and make art, is finally “opening” in grand style. The space, known as TEAL for short, is hosting its grand-opening ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 12 from 9am to 9pm — the six-month anniversary […]

An ice cream chain that set up shop in Bend in 2023 now appears to be coming to Redmond, too. A sign announcing that a Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream will soon be coming to the Hub City has been placed inside the commercial building at SW 5th and Forest Avenue in downtown Redmond. Handel’s, first […]

An ice cream chain that set up shop in Bend in 2023 now appears to be coming to Redmond, too. A sign announcing that a Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream will soo

It’s been open since the spring, but this September, Bend Tea and Art Lounge, offering people a place to sip tea and make art, is finally “opening” in gran

Around 50 years ago, Marcia Morgan’s co-worker told her she’d live longer if she collected something. It took a few years of pondering, but Morgan’s English background led her to tea — but not to collecting tea cups or spoons, as some might. Instead, Morgan took to collecting tea strainers — those tools that sit […]