Restaurant of the Year | Restaurant Guide | Bend | The Source Weekly

Around seven and a half years ago the Itti family moved from Port Townsend, Washington, to Bend, and our food scene has not been the same since. At that point, they’d been operating a Thai restaurant in Port Townsend for over two decades, and, seeing that Bend already had a handful of Thai restaurants, the family opted for a new concept: food from Northern Thailand, where the family originally hails from. While some less-imaginative diners have whined over the years about Wild Rose’s lack of Pad Thai, the popularity of this restaurant has not suffered. Even before the pandemic brought more limited indoor dining space to every spot in town, scoring a table at Wild Rose was a hot ticket; lines of expectant diners waiting outdoors a common sight.