Restaurant Apocalypse 2009!!!

Recently posted on the site “Portland Food and Drink,” this article is a well written exploration of today’s scene in Stumptown.  Much of this applies also to the restaurant business climate here in the Bend area.

Here in Bend, particularly interesting is the rumor that some those formerly employed by Jody Denton will be taking over the old Merenda space. They hope to reopen by mid-March.  There is also a rumor that McCormick & Schmick’s will open in the old that space.  I hope that downtown will not become dominated by the chains.  The first McCormick & Schmick’s started in Portland in 1979 and now have over 80 locations nationwide.