
Down home country
corporate mega-breakfast joint leaves Bend
In honor of this year’s Restaurant Guide issue, we mourn the loss of Bend’s only Cracker Barrel, a corporate approximation of an old country store serving microwaved approximations of old country dishes. Bend’s Cracker Barrel closed its doors on March 20, along with its locations in Beaverton and Tualatin, its departure devastating the local market for old Texaco signs, decommissioned black powder rifles and taxidermized deer heads…