Victorian Cafe – Bend Oregon

2008/05/15

Victorian Cafe

The Victorian Cafe or The Vic as the locals call it is a favorite of the Bendites. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that I drive to the Victorian Cafe and upon hitting the traffic circle at 14th and Galveston and seeing the huge crowd waiting outside and all the cars lining the street, I’ll continue to drive around and around the traffic circle while making my decision of going to Makahna’s Cafe, Longboard Louies for a breakfast burrito, Original Pancake House, Nancy P’s, or Westside Bakery. I’ll just go round and round. I can’t stand waiting an hour for breakfast, I don’t care if the eggs are seasoned with stone ground diamonds.

“Look kids, there’s Big Ben, there’s Parliament” – Me

The wife and I decided to swing by The Victorian Cafe for lunch and sure enough there were a couple of open parking spots so we figured there wouldn’t be a wait. When we walked in we got a great spot with a window immediately.

I browsed the menu of speciality drinks and contemplated the Man-Mosa – champagne and OJ in a flippin pint glass. Good lord, I wouldn’t have been functional for the rest of the day. I had to pass. You won this round oh Pint Glass of Love, but I we will meet again.

After the comments and emails I’ve received about the eggs benedict being the best in town, I had to give em a shot. Looking over all the options for the eggs bene’s, I decided on the Cali Benedicts which consist of your classic poached eggs, english muffins, and covered in hollandaise. But instead of ham or salmon you get turkey (hormone free for you hippies that give a crap about that sort of thing), spinach, bacon, and avocado slices. And I was pleased as punch to see actual avocado slices on top instead of guacamole like at McMenamins.


I can’t praise this dish enough. I absolutely loved every bite and I ate it up. I made little stacks on my fork with a little of everything so each bite had all the ingredients. I even managed to make a couple mini-Bene stacks for the wife. She was quite jealous of my meal and even said “Next time I come back, I’m getting that.”

Normally she’s the one that gets something different that I normally wouldn’t order and then that dish becomes my favorite. But how can you go wrong with eggs, bacon, turkey, and cover it with hollandaise? I mean that’s a perfect storm in my gullet. These were the BEST eggs benedicts that I’ve had in Bend.

The wife went for the 18 Wheeler.


She was sort of happy with it but the biscuits were really thick and heavy. We like fluffy biscuits that soak up the gravy easily. I tried them and they seemed awfully dry even covered with gravy. So she sort of scraped all the gravy off and was still satisfied.

Victorian Cafe
1404 NW Galveston Ave.
Bend, OR 97701
(541) 382-6411

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Nancy P’s Baking Co

2008/05/13

Nancy P’s Baking Co

Nancy P’s Baking Co sits to the left of the Newport Market. Not behind Newport Market or across the street like everyone kept telling me. Well technically it is across the street but when you say that, everyone is going to assume you mean across the street in front of the market. Am I wrong? When someone says across the street do you ever think that they mean across the street to the left or right? Or behind? Come on people, work with me.

I finally found this little bakery and when I visited at around 9am on a week day I found the place packed. In the small dining area there was not an empty seat. Sort of freaked me out. Don’t you all have jobs?


There were all sorts of baked goods to browse though and we made a few selections The brownie was sooo sweet and rich that I couldn’t finish it. That’s not a knock on the brownie, it was very good but I can’t take that much chocolate or sugar.


I was able to wrestle a couple of bites of the cinnamon roll away from the wife and considered fighting for more. But again, the sugar is a killer to my thunder thighs.


Instead I got this ham and cheese turn over thingy. I forgot what it was actually called. I didn’t really care, I was just trying to decide between the ham and cheese or the one with bacon.

The wrap type thingy was good, the bread was soft and had some nice salty seasonings on it. I found that there was not enough ham and cheese and way too much bread. There was a stone ground mustard inside but it was not spread evenly. So when I ate this thing I had about half of it left and it was all mustard which wasn’t on the first half….with the ham and cheese. Other than that it was good.

Nancy P’s seems to have a loyal following. I get a couple emails here an there asking if I’d been there or when am I going to write about it. Well here you go, now you can shut it.

I have one small complaint. I would have liked to have seen prices on the items in the case while I was browsing. The wife paid so I have no idea how much our breakfast snacks cost. The wife has one complaint, why is the Nancy P’s part of the sign out front sooooo tiny and the BAKING CO is sooo big? People should start referring to this place as the Baking Company instead of Nancy P’s so we can find it.

Nancy P’s Baking Co
1054 NW Milwaukee Ave
Bend, OR 97701
(541) 322-8778

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