Looking for a new & fun experience? Enjoy food tastings with wine pairings at 5-6 restaurants in downtown Medford or Grants Pass. You’ll meet chefs, winemakers, beer makers and others at each establishment.  Tours run Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Must be 21+. If you have special requests or ideas, please ask!

Visit our Grants Pass listing.

Elegantly evoking the heyday of car travel, Larks Kitchen & Cocktails, located at Inn at the Commons in Medford, Oregon, pairs the best of 1960s décor with the region’s best, farm-fresh ingredients for a celebration of the classics — with a twist.

Cooking from scratch, awards winning Executive Chef Billy Buscher is inspired by Oregon’s farms, orchards, creameries and wineries. His innovative food showcases the seasons’ bounty, along with Southern Oregon’s tradition of food artisans.

Stop by the lounge to enjoy local and regional wines and beers, as well as cocktails crafted with the most flavorful fruits, herbs and botanicals. Join us for our happy hour Monday – Friday with live music and NEW Lunch & Dinner offerings.

Be sure to visit our other Neuman Hotel Group restaurants for more farm to table cuisine:

Larks Home Kitchen Cuisine

Luna Cafe + Mercantile

Heavenly Fire Salsa was created through trial and error since 1999 by artisanal food maker Mark Anderson. His smoky salsa eventually launched in 2015 in Southern Oregon and since then has grown into five salsa flavors.  The unrivaled taste experience is a result of handpicked ingredients and his proprietary all-natural smoking process.
Mild – Sunny With a Chance of Salsa: our mildest salsa, Sunny With a  Chance was created for folks with sensitive palates, those folks who enjoy gourmet condiments but eschew excessive or overwhelming spiciness.
Medium – Hip-Tang Manuever: Our Hip-Tang, offers a bit more spice than our mild and, as an added benefit brings a bright burst of lime for the palate making it one of our most popular salsas.
Hot – Holy Smoke: Our most popular salsa, Holy Smoke is the perfect synergy between spice and flavor, highlighted by a bold fresh tomato presentation.
Hotter – Oh My Goodness!: OMG is a significantly hotter salsa than the mild, medium, and hot. Roughly similar to the heat in a fresh jalapeno chili, OMG is ideal for cooking or for that hot salsa aficionado who likes direct piercing heat.

Hottest – Sangre de Drago:Sangre de Drago: (Dragon’s Blood in English) is our hottest salsa but also our most nuanced  and complex.  With a full bodied flavor and a stealthy heat that comes from the back of the palate, Sangre de Drago is the spicy salsa lovers dream and the perfect all in one meal enhancer for cooking.

Salsa fiends can purchase from Heavenly Fire Salsa’s online store, at Southern Oregon farmers markets, and retail outlets, such as Cartwrights, Ray’s, Medford Co-op, Gary West Meats, The Growler King, Food 4 Less, The Butcher Shop, and The Kitchen Company.

Urban winemaker, Linda Donovan, knows well how to handcraft small-batch award-winning wines. It is evident in her iconic brand, L. Donovan Wines, which is produced at her urban winery, Pallet Wine Company, and featured at her adjacent tasting room, The Urban Cork. The in-demand wines reflect Donovan’s skill and commitment to crafting wine in natural, sustainable ways, without manipulation.

Having established a renowned winemaking and consulting reputation for wineries around the world for over 22 years, she set out to develop distinct, well balanced wines under her own label, made from grapes grown in Southern Oregon.

Meet our Team.

L Donovan Wines:
Pick Me: Red & White (Great value/quality)
Late Bloomer: Red & White (Unique varietal & blends with great value)
Le Jeune Chien (Ode to Linda’s dog, Finnigan) Sauvignon Blanc
L. Donovan

Wines by L Donovan Estate Grown at Valley View Orchards
Long Walk (Valley View ) 2013 Mourvèdre Rosé
Mourvèdre 100% (Unique to see this wine as a stand alone)
Rhone Blend Orchard Red contains four grapes: Mourvèdre, Grenache, Cinsault, and Carignane
Zinfandel

Winery tours can sometimes be accommodated, so be sure to inquire when you visit The Urban Cork tasting room.

Fry Family Farm is a certified organic farm and year-round farm store located in Medford, Oregon. Their organically grown produce is sold at Southern Oregon farmer’s markets retail and restaurant locations throughout Oregon and through their member-supported CSA. The farm store stocks a wide range of packaged food items prepared in their onsite kitchen directly from produce grown on their adjacent farm.

Zhamaaru Chocolate is an exquisite, artisanal, savoring raw chocolate experience. Our vegan, paleo, flavor-infused our cacao beans from nonprofit organizations that work with farmers to grow and harve

All you oenophiles out there, gather round. The Urban Cork is Medford’s hip wine tasting bar, featuring more than 50 custom wines handcrafted by owner and longtime winemaker, Linda Donovan. Visitors have unparalleled access to almost 90 outstanding varietals that represent the wines of her more than 25 winery clients, and her own label, L. Donovan Wines. Tasters will experience viogniers and tempranillos to more unusual selections like touriga nacional and müller-thurgau. Wines are available for purchase by bottle or case in the tasting room, as well as through The Urban Cork Wine Club.

All wines are produced on site at Pallet Wine Company, her adjacent 21,000 sq. ft. urban winery custom crush facility, and are poured in the tasting room. Tailored to the needs of her small-scale vineyard and winery clients, these are truly local…grown and harvested from Ashland to Roseburg, and they express the terroir of their respective viticulture regions. 

In addition to grapes grown locally in Medford, Ashland, Jacksonville, the Applegate Valley and the surrounding areas, they also process and bottle wines from producers in the Illinois Valley, Central Oregon, the Willamette Valley, and Umpqua Valley.

Tasting and glass offerings are rotated frequently to ensure a unique experience. For wine lovers, The Urban Cork is a convenient starting or finishing point on your adventure of the local and regional wine scene, a gathering place for locals and visitors to unite over a great glass of wine, a venue for local music and events, and a center for wine education.

We also offer charcuterie (meat and cheese boards), perfect for sharing.

Wines Available for tasting:

L Donovan Wines:
Pick Me: Red & White (Great value/Quality)
Late Bloomer: Red & White (Unique varietal & blends with Great Value)
Le Jeune Chien (Ode to Linda’s dog, Fennigan) Sauvignon Blanc
L. Donovan

Wines by L Donovan Estate Grown at Valley View Orchards
>Mourvèdre 100% (Unique to see this wine as a stand alone)
> Rhone Blend Orchard Red contains four grapes: Mourvedre, Grenache, Cinsault, and Carignane
> Zinfandel

Custom Crush Varietals:
Mourvèdre 100%
Syrah
Pinotage
Tempranillo

Winery tours can sometimes be accommodated, so be sure to inquire when you visit the tasting room.

At Buttercloud Bakery & Cafe, an artisan bakery and restaurant co-owned by Ellen and Gibson Holub, the focus is on scratch-made food using high-quality ingredients. Located just one block from the weekly farmers market, the cafe sources organic produce and farm products from local farmers. The local theme continues with their use of everything from Rogue Creamery cheese and Siskiyou Honey Bees honey to locally roasted Evans Valley Roasting coffee beans and dark chocolate mocha syrup from Lillie Belle Farms.

Talk to any Butterpal (aka their bakery fans) and you’ll hear kudos about the menu item that made Buttercloud a favored destination: “breakfast & lunch sandwiches on housemade buttermilk biscuits.” Customer favorites include The Farmhouse (Fried egg, bacon, tomato and basil aioli) and Chicken & Chile (Chicken breast, cilantro mayo, roasted poblano pepper, Tillamook pepper jack cheese and tomato). The cafe also offers breakfast plates such as the Smoked Salmon Scramble, French Toast made with their biscuits and a healthy Kale and Avocado Breakfast Salad (topped with eggs).

Lunch offerings include sandwiches featuring beef brisket & pulled pork, scratch-made soups and a smoky Mac and Cheese. Make sure to save room for dessert, as they always have a selection of delectable desserts by the slice daily! Whole cakes are also available by pre-order only.

Read more about the Buttercloud Bakery story.