Edeske Patisserie’s Pear & Caramel Choux

September kicks off this week’s tidbits with some fresh hints of fall flavors, grape harvests, and plenty of Gorge happenings—from sweet choux pastries and spicy hot sauce to local festivals and farm-fresh fruit.

🍐 Dessert of the Week

Edeske Patisserie 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. (usually also Thursday, but not this week).
Kailea Coffee Co. is pouring cozy vibes with their new White Mocha.

🌶 What’s HOT

Love & Hominy has a new house-made Carrot Habanero Hot Sauce—perfect for tacos.
Full Sail Brewing brings back their Lunch Specials! Today: Patty Melt. Tomorrow: Open-faced Tuna Melt.
Riverside Restaurant is now offering Happy Hour seven days a week—right in time for football season.

🕒 Hour Updates

Solstice Pizza is closed on Tuesdays through fall, back open Wednesday lunch through the weekend.
Stave & Stone will be closed to the public on Saturday, Sept 6, for their wine pickup party.

🍇 Harvest Happenings

Jacob Williams Winery is gearing up for grape crushing—contact them if you’d like to join the fun.
Sunshine Mill Winery hosts their Harvesting Sunshine Festival Saturday, Sept 27 (12–6 pm): grape stomping, tours, beer from Freebridge + Working Hands, plus sweet bites from Dani’s Kitchen Shop and Berries by Felice.

🍑 Fresh from the Farms

Farmer in Odell: Bartlett pears & Donut peaches.
Pearl’s Place Fruit & Farmer in Odell: Elberta peaches.
Mt. View Orchards: Pluots are ready. Plus so much more–plums, peaches, nectarines.
Kiyokawa 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 @foragefarmferment just dropped.

🎉 Events This Weekend

Grasslands presents Swamplands Barbecue (Sat, Sept 6, Hood River waterfront): In their words, they’ll be “channeling the magic alchemy of Cajun cooking” with bayou classics like pickled okra, gumbo, dirty rice–stuffed quail, brisket boudin sausage, crawfish mac & cheese, Elote, and so much more.
Less about food, more about the quick mention: Bingen Huckleberry Festival (Sept 5–7) at Daubenspeck Park, Bingen, WA, will have Brats & Beers and festival fun! And of course, we mustn’t forget about the WAAAM Fly-in. My secret? Go on Sunday instead to watch all the visiting planes take off. Better than that? Have a burger at Twin Peaks on Tucker Road for the best seat in the house and see all those planes fly overhead.

Thursday Tidbits

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