Red Mill Tour and Food

Bob’s Rules!

Bob’s Red Mill products are healthy, high quality mixes, grains and oats. You know the ones in the clear bags that inspire, confound and delight us? Yeah those. With recipe suggestions galore including tips about how to incorporate their organic and gluten free options, Bob’s Red Mill products are something every frenzied family can appreciate. In fact, they help make our busy lives easier and healthier! Pancake mixes, muffin mixes, bulk items, soup mixes and cereals, biscuit mixes and harder to find options like teff, spelt, and tapioca, are all at-the-ready.

Here in Portland, Bob’s Red Mill is so much more than just his food, though. We are ground zero for a festival of his natural foods; onsite bakery (oh the aromas wafting throughout the store), product-purchasing nirvana, and a cafe. Situated fifteen minutes away in Milwaukie, Bob’s Red Mill is a fab destination for an uber-family-friendly outdoor patio-delivered summer breakie or lunch. It’s also top notch for a picnic snack (picnic tables on hand in a grassy stretch right next to the cafe patio).

Worship at the Altar to Healthy GrainsTo understand the lore of Bob’s Red Mill, let’s first discuss Bob himself. Bob Moore is an 80 year old visionary who has been dedicating himself to healthy foods for the masses for over thirty years. Bob’s Red Mill, the building, boasts a still working water wheel (delightfully fascinating for kiddos of all ages) with bench seating for admiration of all types. Large millstones are on display inside and out and yowza, if they don’t remind us of the hard work it is to make the yummy foods we can now so easily grab off the shelves.

Bob’s Red Mill’s fantastic store shines with tremendous tastiness at every turn. Bob may be your new bestie. Watch out. And whatever you do, don’t let the kiddos hold the shopping basket. It will be full of treats in seconds flat. Their in-house baked cookies are bigger than your head and the bulk bins go on for days.

Tours of Bob’s Red Mill’s manufacturing facility are (close by the Visitor’s Center) held once a day at 10:00 am. Their Grain Guides are knowledgeable to put it mildly and can answer any questions you and your little grainiacs may have. Go see first hand how they make their baked goodness magic happen.

Know Before You GoBob’s Red Mill is open Monday – Friday 6:00 am. to 6:00 pm. The restaurant stops serving at 3:00 pm. On Saturday the store and café open at 7:00 am. and the store closes at 5:00 pm. They are closed Sundays.

Their cafe features indoor and outdoor tables. We recommend the outdoor! With covered tables, some lush greenery, a bit of road noise from the highway behind (but hardly noticeable), grassy space in the picnic area, and a water feature, there is plenty to keep your mini muffins happy until the food arrives.

Bob’s Red Mill
5000 SE International WayMilwaukie, Or 97222503-607-6455