If you have lived in Bend for more than a season or two, you already have a mental map of where you eat. Downtown for a birthday. Century Drive on the way home from the mountain. The Old Mill when someone visits. What is worth paying attention to right now is not that Bend is getting new restaurants. It is that the 2026 opening wave is landing almost entirely along the same short walking corridors you already use, with a couple of deliberate anchors placed where those corridors were thinning out.
That means the practical change for a resident is smaller than the headline count suggests. Roughly a dozen concepts are opening, and most of them fall within a five-block radius of somewhere you already go.
The two corridors doing most of the work
Two stretches are absorbing the bulk of the activity. The first is the Wall Street and Bond Street spine downtown. The second is SW Century Drive between the roundabouts and OSU-Cascades. If you draw a line down each, you can account for most of the 2026 openings without leaving the sidewalk.
Downtown is getting a live-fire chophouse, a sustainable sushi restaurant, a Mediterranean concept from one of the owners of Ken's Artisan Pizza, and a tea and art lounge that wants to function as a living room. Century Drive is getting a two-story taphouse and food-cart lot, a new South American concept, and a second location of a bagel shop that opened its first storefront less than two years ago.
Neither corridor is picking up a random assortment. Both are consolidating around the kind of evening use that used to send people driving across town.
Downtown, block by block
The Hudson is preparing to open at the corner of NW Wall Street and NW Minnesota Avenue in downtown Bend, a live-fire chophouse led by Chef George Morris. It sits in the space where 900 Wall closed in May after 17 years of operation, which is worth naming out loud because the block had felt quieter since. The second floor will be a private members lounge offering privacy and flexibility on reservations to its membership.
Two blocks over, at 125 NW Oregon Ave, Bamboo Sushi plans to open a new location of its sustainable sushi restaurant in Bend, and if construction stays on track, the Bend location will open in early March. This is three years after an anticipated opening was first announced. The chain currently operates 10 locations, including six in the greater Portland area. If you have been walking past that storefront wondering whether it was ever actually going to open, the answer is that it is now on the near horizon.
At 801 NW Wall St, the former Drake is being remodeled into Olive & May. One of the owners, Peter Kost, who also is one of the owners of Ken's Artisan Pizza, told the Source the food will be northern Mediterranean with influences from Spain, Italy, France and Greece. The restaurant is named after two women in Bend's history. Olive McKay arrived around 1900 with her husband, Clyde McKay, and were influential in the city's early development. Kost says Clyde built the existing building in 1947.
Around the corner at 1024 NW Bond St, the Bend Tea and Art Lounge is taking a different angle on downtown foot traffic. All teas served will be sourced from locally owned businesses such as Inspired Leaf Tea and Metolius Tea, both based in Bend. Wife and husband Sarah and Zach Swoffer intend for their concept to serve as the "living room of Bend." Sarah is the founder of Lets Paint, which offers art classes for all ages, and Zach has 30 years of hospitality experience, including as the former golf director at Brasada Ranch.
Four openings inside a walkable downtown grid is a lot of new evening use in one place.
The Century Drive stretch
Century Drive is the other place where the map is filling in fast. The owners of Powder House Bend are building a two-story taphouse/food cart lot behind their building off SW Century Drive which will have as many as 10 trucks and space for events and games. That is a substantial reset for what used to be an in-and-out stop on the way to Mt. Bachelor.
A little further along, Casa Sur is opening at 335 SW Century Dr, per Source coverage from April 2026 pointing to an early-May opening. And an official location has officially been announced for a second location of Haven Bagels and Coffee. The new shop will be located between the Oregon State University-Cascades campus and Terava Apartments on Century Drive. The bagel shop opened its first brick-and-mortar in August 2024 in Bend's Reed South development and is known for bagels made with clean, organic ingredients, espresso drinks and gluten-free options.
Read together, these three openings turn a corridor most residents treated as a commute into something that supports morning, afternoon, and evening use.
One anchor each on the east and south sides
The east side gets one real anchor. A new restaurant is now open where The Phoenix previously stood in northeast Bend. Mountain View Roadhouse near Worthy Brewing is describing itself as an "elevated American roadhouse." The restaurant is at 594 NE Bellevue Drive. It's owned by the Traxler Group, which owns other Oregon restaurants, including Sisters' The Gallery Restaurant and Bar and Eugene's Chambers Grill and Taphouse. If you live off Neff or Bear Creek, this is your first new sit-down restaurant of the year without a drive.
The south side gets its anchor in a different form. An aviation-themed food truck lot named Hangar 97 plans to break ground next year on the corner of Murphy Road and Silverado Springs, next to the Bend RV Resort. It will offer a greater number of options for dining out on the south side of town, where the developer plans to host six food trucks. Next door to the food cart lot will be an indoor pickleball center to be named the Bend Pickleball Academy. That is a real gap on the south side finally getting addressed.
For sweeter cravings, frozen yogurt franchise Cuppa Yo was founded in Bend in 2010. In celebration of its 15th anniversary, the company is opening a third location in the city, which will share a parking lot with Costco. The address is 20789 NW Henry Ave.
The outliers worth naming
Three openings sit outside the two main corridors and are worth putting on the map anyway.
- Powder Hound Doughnuts, 1366 NW Galveston Ave. A family-owned and -operated donut shop is opening up shop on Galveston Avenue. Powder Hound Doughnuts is run by husband and wife team Matthew (Match) and Whitney Elliott, who plan to lean into tradition by serving classic donuts and coffee. The couple is targeting a March opening date for their new business, which will be located in the building formerly home to Bo's.
- The Way West, Jackstraw apartments on SW Industrial Way. A mash-up between Bend Brewing Company and Sisters Meat & Smokehouse for a bar-deli opening on the ground floor of the Jackstraw apartments on SW Industrial Way, expected to open this summer.
- Stacks Dinner & Delicatessen, 545 SW Powerhouse Drive. Stacks Dinner & Delicatessen arrives at Old Mill District with NYC-style deli fare, in-house cured and smoked meats, and pastrami sandwiches created by the team behind Zydeco Kitchen & Cocktails and Chef Eric Joppie.
None of these are on the two main corridors, but each fills a specific gap. Galveston has been short a morning-only breakfast spot since Bo's closed. The Old Mill has not had a real deli. Industrial Way has been growing residentially without the ground-floor food to match.
A note on how many of these will actually stick
It is fair to be a little skeptical of a wave this size. As the Source put it in its 2026 restaurant guide, running a restaurant in Central Oregon in 2026 is not for the faint of heart; by nearly every account, it's harder than it has ever been.
The realistic read is that some of these openings will slip their target dates, and some will not survive their first winter. But the concentration itself is what matters for how you plan your summer.
Even if a third of these do not make it to 2027, downtown and Century Drive will still have meaningfully more evening use than they did last July. That changes parking, changes reservations, and changes how long you should give yourself to walk from one place to another when you have guests in town.
What this map tells you about the summer
If you have been feeling like the food scene has been stuck in a holding pattern since 900 Wall and The Phoenix closed, this is the summer that stops being true. The two corridors you already use are getting denser, the east side is getting its first new anchor in a while, and the south side is finally on the board. A resident who spends July paying attention to what opens where will know the city's evening geography better than a resident who waits for the reviews to come out in September.
When you are ready to think about how those changing corridors intersect with where you live or where you might want to live next, Ninebark Real Estate is happy to talk it through. Get a Free Home Valuation whenever you would like a straight read on your part of town.
