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In a city where nightlife seems to end when the Tower Theatre locks up, the nearby Velvet Lounge has earned loyal fans. Join the flannel-clad crowd for a happy-hour brew or an after-show cocktail in the narrow, bi-level bar, which is filled with vaguely western decor and hanging houseplants.
A long-standing brewery, founded in 1995, BBC (as it is affectionately called by locals) offers around a dozen different types of beers on tap. A park-like outdoor seating area overlooking the Deschutes River makes a fantastic venue for regular live music performances.
Housed in a converted auto repair shop, this experimental brewery has no flagship beer. Instead, the brewmaster, a Deschutes Brewery alum, produces an ever-changing variety of pale ales and other craft brews, all of which are on tap in the lively tasting room. Live entertainment, on-site food carts, and a sprawling patio make this a popular hangout in the summer months.
This revamped outdoor amphitheater offers dozens of concerts throughout the summer season and has room for 8,000 guests. You can pay a premium to take in shows from the two-story VIP pavilion, or stick to the ground level, where you'll find around a dozen food carts and—in the true Bend fashion—a large beer garden.
