Top Bend Food & Drink

Bend is home to some 35 craft breweries, each with their own varieties of beer. Our food truck scene is also pretty spectacular with some tasty food. We will visit two of our favorite breweries as well as the liveliest food truck pod in town. You will enjoy complimentary flight tastings from the different breweries and Bend's famous Tots from the food truck pod. Enjoy a relaxing afternoon of craft beer and some tasty snacks.

Bend, Oregon is one of the most well known craft beer towns in this country. With over 35 craft breweries, the beer scene is a way of life around here. We will visit three of our favorite breweries in town, each with their own unique and fun vibe as well as styles of beer. You will also enjoy several flight tastings, providing you plenty of beer to compare tasting notes from the different breweries. Join us for a great afternoon of touring, lots of tasting and hopefully making some new friends while enjoying the Bend beer scene like a local.

No other experience in Bend lets you travel the globe through chocolate. The chocolate experts guide you through the entire bean to bar journey, from how we source directly from small farms to the small-batch roasting techniques that preserve each origin's distinct character. Be welcomed with a mug of house-made hot cocoa, then explore the global cocoa story told by the people who live it every day. Learn how soil, climate, and region shape every bar, from fruity Peruvian beans to earthy Indonesian cacao. Then take the craft into your own hands and pour your own bar from warm, liquid single-origin chocolate to take home. Close with a guided tasting flight of the award-winning lineup — comparing the terroir of multiple cacao-growing regions side by side, just as a sommelier would explore fine wines. Taste the world's finest single-origin cacao in one sitting, then shop the full collection at guest-exclusive pricing.

You will enjoy a behind the scenes look at how this local award-winning chocolate maker creates their incredibly savory product. You’ll learn about how various beans from different regions of the world help make these chocolates and experience how the process works. Perhaps the highlight will be forming your own chocolate bar into a mold that will be packaged to take home with you. At the end, everyone will enjoy some wine or hot chocolate along with tasting their various samples. If you choose to purchase some chocolate bars, we have arranged special wholesale pricing for you.

This is the one and only Original Alpaca Picnic Experience. While shooting for Quechua Benefit, a nonprofit supporting economic benefits for underserved communities in the Peruvian highlands, professional travel, nature & humanitarian photographer Wasim Muklashy met Amanda Vandenbosch, one of the world's premiere alpaca breeders & Peru-trained alpaca judges. That encounter blossomed into a friendship which led to his living & working at Flying Dutchman Alpacas, Amanda's family farm in Bend, OR during part of the pandemic year. Taking their morning coffee & lunch in the alpaca pasture was pure therapy & they both realized that if these floofs were therapeutic to them, they'd be therapeutic to ALL. So here they are, offering an experience with a group of floofs guaranteed to put smiles on the faces of those in the foulest of moods. There is no other activity that will give you this level of time, experience, education and interaction with the magical creatures that are the alpaca.