Restaurant Guide

Welcome to the Bend Magazine dining guide, featuring the best restaurants in Central Oregon. Use our online resource to guide your exploration of Central Oregon’s vibrant culinary scene. Discover a new restaurant, find what dishes and drinks our editors recommend and easily compare and contrast offerings based on our filters that allow you to sort by food type, location and other attributes like beer and wine offerings. The restaurant guide includes establishments that have been visited and vetted by our staff. Those with our editor’s pick symbol have been recognized as having attained notable excellence in customer experience and execution. Find great places to eat in Bend, Redmond, Sisters, Prineville, Madras and Maupin.

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Great Earth Natural Foods, Deli Fresh, Madras
- Wine
This organic grocer also serves as a café‚ and is the perfect place to stop for a quick breakfast or lunch. Great Earth features sandwiches and grilled panini loaded with fresh veggies and refreshing smoothies with local berries. For breakfast, try a spinach and mushroom frittata or a hot oatmeal bake.
46 SW D St., Madras, 541-475-1500
Rio Distinctive Mexican Cuisine, Mexican, Madras
While the restaurant’s décor is nothing fancy, the plates here are quite the opposite. Rio Distinctive Mexican Cuisine serves outstanding chili rellenos with a beautiful presentation of colorful, spicy sausages drizzled artfully with sauce. Housed in a repurposed home in Madras, guests rave about the authenticity of the food at this restaurant. The restaurant is off one of the main streets in downtown Madras, and in the summer offers outdoor seating where you can enjoy one of their refreshing margaritas or cocktails. Read more >>
221 SW 5th St., Madras, 541-475-0424
The Eagle Bakery, Homestyle, Madras
The Eagle Bakery has that warm, friendly atmosphere you love in a bakery. Owned locally by a family in Madras, this place is loved for its fresh cinnamon rolls and biscuits and gravy. It’s open only on Friday and Saturday, so be sure to stock up while you’re there.
218 SW 3rd St., Madras, 541-475-4593

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