The Orchard Café
Open-fire breakfasts, garden lunches, and seasonal suppers built around what was picked that morning.
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Est. 2014 · Willamette Valley
A slow afternoon, pressed into every glass.
Heirloom orchards, wood-fired kitchen, and small-batch ciders poured beneath the oaks. Open daily for harvest plates, tastings, and long, unhurried mornings.
Tended by hand · Pressed on-site · Served the same week
Featured in Edible Portland
Good Food Awards Finalist 2024
Slow Food USA Member Orchard
Oregon Cider Guild
What we tend to
Four small rituals, gathered under one roof.
Every plate, pour, and pastry begins twenty steps from the kitchen door — in the orchard, the press house, or the garden beds we keep behind the barn.
Cider Tasting Room
Five-pour flights of our keeved, wild, and barrel-aged ciders — guided by the press master herself.
View tastingsU-Pick Weekends
Wander the rows September through November. Bring a basket, leave with the season folded into it.
Plan a visitLong-Table Suppers
Private gatherings under the oaks. One menu, one table, candlelight, and the orchard for a backdrop.
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Why we do it slowly
We grow what we pour. We pour what we grow.
Forty-two varieties of heritage apple grow on the property — some so rare you'll only find them on our list. Nothing leaves the orchard. Nothing arrives from far away. The flavor of a Willamette October, bottled honestly.
- 01Single-orchard pressings. Every bottle traces back to a row of trees you can walk between.
- 02Wild-fermented, patient. No shortcuts, no industrial yeasts — just time and Oregon weather.
- 03A kitchen with a short walk. Most ingredients travel less than 300 feet to your plate.
- 04Hands you can meet. The grower, the press master, the chef — all here, most days.
Around the orchard
A few quiet corners of the property.
Kind words
What guests carry home.
"The kind of afternoon you remember in your bones. The Kingston Black flight tasted like an October you've never had but always wanted."
"We came for brunch and stayed until the lanterns went on. Honest food, honest people, the most generous orchard I've ever wandered."
"They press it twenty feet from the table. You can taste the difference. This isn't a restaurant — it's a season you're invited into."
Find us
The orchard, the press house, the long table.
We sit on twelve acres just off the Yamhill–Carlton wine road. The drive in is half the welcome.
Address
4820 Ribbon Ridge Road
Carlton, OR 97111
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Open
Wed — Sun · 9:00 — 21:00
Closed Mon & Tue
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