Bite of Bend 2007
I was looking forward to the Bite of Bend this year especially because it was going to be in Downtown Bend. Last year’s Bite was in the Old Mill. It was a HOT day without any shade so being Downtown should be more fun like when they run the festivals down there.
Uhhh, after walking through the cramped in food court we were asking ourselves where are the restaurants? For the most part the only “restaurants” that showed up were caterers, taco stands, Thai, and some BBQ. There were a few places like Baldys, Staccato, Hans, and 28 that were offering samples of their meals.
The whole festival was poorly organized, boring, and disappointing. I left hungry and sad. I am still trying to figure out what happened. It’s the Bite of Bend, doesn’t that mean that Bend restaurants should be there dishing out samples of their cuisine? Where were the good restaurants? Was it because the event was downtown that most of the downtown restaurants decided on not having a booth?
Oh and the beer “garden” was the worst. It was written up in the Source as Beer, Wine, and Spirits…what are spirits? I thought that spirits referred to hard liquor but there wasn’t any, just beer and wine.
Slow moving lines and few options when you finally made it to the front made me pissy. That’s really the best you could do? Why not just fill a garbage can with ice and sell PBR pounders for a $1?
If I was a tourist and went to the Bite of Bend, I would start to get my plans to move here and open a restaurant together. Cause if this is the best Bend has to offer, any restaurant would be successful.
$2.50 Fish Taco from La Costa’s taco stand:
$6 Duck and Prawn skewer from Kokanee Cafe:
$5 Pulled pork sandwich from Oregon Dan’s BBQ:
$1 Lemon Tart from Staccato (she gave me two since these were the size of a quarter at best):
Highlight of the day was the $1.50 Beef Tongue taco from Rico’s taco stand/gut truck:
Photo of the Iron Chef competition with an annoying announcer and no way of possibly seeing what’s going on. How about a TV monitor or even a mirror so we could see what’s up?
There were many people on stilts walking around and then these two ladies that were dressed as French Poodles. I’m confused. I don’t know what this is or how it made me feel:
Lame.
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