09/04/2025
September kicks off our Thursday Tidbits with some fresh hints of fall flavors, grape harvests, fests, and more:
🍐 is leaning into fall flavors with their Pear & Caramel Choux—caramel crémeux, pear compôte, sticky date cake, and bits of candied bacon. Open this weekend, Friday–Monday until 3 pm.
☕ Kaile’a Coffee Co is pouring cozy vibes with their new White Mocha.
🌶 Love & Hominy Tacos has a new house-made Carrot Habanero Hot Sauce—perfect for tacos.
🥪 Full Sail Brewing Company brings back their Lunch Specials! Today: Patty Melt. Tomorrow: Open-faced Tuna Melt.
🍹Riverside is now offering Happy Hour seven days a week—right in time for football season.
🕒 Solstice Wood Fire Pizza is closed on Tuesdays through fall.
🕒 Stave & Stone Winery will be closed to the public on Saturday, Sept 6, for their wine pickup party.
🍇 Jacob Williams Winery is gearing up for grape crushing—contact them if you’d like to join the fun.
🍇 Sunshine Mill Artisan Plaza and Winery hosts their Harvesting Sunshine Festival Saturday, Sept 27 (12–6 pm): grape stomping, tours, beer from Freebridge Brewing + Working Hands Fermentation, plus sweet bites from Dani's Kitchen Shop and .
🍑 Cody Orchards Farm Stand/ The Farmer In Odell: Bartlett pears & Donut peaches.
🍑 Pearl's Place & Farmer in Odell: Elberta peaches.
🍑 Mt. View Orchards: Pluots are ready, plus so much more.
🍑 Kiyokawa Family Orchards: Pink Pearls now at their stand & farmers markets.
🍑 Hood River Farmers' Market: (Sat, 9–1): visit Columbia Gorge Garlic’s booth for organic culinary + seed garlic, heirloom tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, melons, plus many more food producers.
🍑 Treebird Market: fresh, wild-foraged chanterelles by
🎉 Events This Weekend
• presents Swamplands Barbecue (Sat, Sept 6, Hood River waterfront): Think pickled okra, gumbo, dirty rice–stuffed quail, brisket boudin sausage, crawfish mac & cheese, and so much more.
• Less about food, more about the quick mention: Bingen Huckleberry Festival (Sept 5–7) at Daubenspeck Park, Bingen, WA. PLUS, the WAAAM Fly-in, Hood River. Have a burger at Twin Peaks Drive-In Restaurant on Tucker Road for the best seat in the house.