Tulsa Food

Steak. Hmm. When you think “steak”, the first few restaurants that come to your mind may be a chain restaurant right? Well, I’m here to tell you, you need to think “steak” again. But this time think local-Locally owned that is and on Main Street no less! In 2001, Larry Dooley opened Dooley’s Angus Inn [...]

Tulsa now has a Genghis Grill, right on 15th Street near Utica. Since this is a chain, I’ll just say a few words about the Tulsa location — such as the prices, which are evidently lower than most locations, $11 at lunch for all you can eat. It features Asian-influenced stir fries, made to order. [...]

Not that long ago I was watching Larry King Live. This is not something I ever try to make a habit of, but on this rare occasion I found myself watching an episode with Jack Hannah and baby animals. My husband has this obsession with baby animals that I find precious and somewhat bizarre at [...]

It has been over a week since the disaster in Haiti. It is clear that numbers showing over 200,000 perished and over tens of thousands lost and unaccounted for, there is one thing very clear…Haiti needs us. We live in such a beautiful country that not only consists of sturdy buildings but compassionate people. The [...]

With wedding season coming up, we decided to hit the Wedding Extravaganza at the Stinchcomb Mansion in Broken Arrow yesterday. It was everything that a bride or groom needs to know about planning a wedding…all in one place! Below are a few videos of some of the food vendors that we met up with. These [...]

Wine isn’t only fun with haute cuisine and fancily prepared dishes. Wine is as versatile as beer when it comes to pairing with what we think as quintessentially American food like burgers and fries, barbecue, and yes even chicken fried steak. One of my own personal food and wine pairing favorites is actually a great [...]

Check out this delicious lunch special from Chicory & Chives. This is Cajun grilled shrimp with cheese grits. The shrimp is spicy and tender and the cheese grits are definitely more sophisticated than they seem. Loaded with flavor (and bacon), they are so light and fluffy. The sausage was an unexpected extra and was not [...]

February 02, 2010 – Mardi Gras Beer Dinner at McNellie’s Sign up now! If you are like me, you love a great pairing of delicious food and drinks. This event offers an opportunity to try some Louisiana fare at one of Tulsa’s best establishments along with some of Tulsa’s finest brew. Make it a night [...]

Several different Sushi restaurants have opened up around Tulsa in the past year and of course there are some that have been around for a while. I am going to try as many of them as I can. This idea started in March 2009, when I went to Tokyo Garden and had my first taste [...]

She adored the cookie. She idolized it all out of proportion. Uh, no. Make that, she romanticized it all out of proportion. To her, no matter what the season was, this was still a town where the most delicious cookie was made. Imagine George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue“, playing in the background and fireworks going [...]

There’s a guy named Pirate Prentice who puts in a brief appearance right at the beginning of Thomas Pynchon’s masterpiece Gravity’s Rainbow. There he is, standing right in the middle of an enormous penthouse high over the bombed-out rubble of wartime London, presiding over a huge roomful of raucous drunks, calmly cooking a 20 course [...]

I visited this Brookside restaurant last week for the first time. Had heard good things and found them to be true. The staff was friendly and greeted me as I walked in the door. The Bagel Cafe is open for breakfast and lunch and the menu is clearly displayed above your head as you enter [...]

Go south on Memorial, past the malls and the huge new Super Target, and somewhere south of 150th St the busy 6-lane highway becomes a sleepy country road. You’re not in Tulsa anymore. Around 168th St there’s a fork in the road, and what looks like a little low-slung wood farmhouse appears. That’s the Lazy [...]

Not only am I following Joe of joesburgersearch.com on Facebook and Twitter but about every week I find myself following an instinctual craving from deep within my belly’s brain that takes me to one of those awesome burger places Joe talks about on his website. Yesterday my friend Mark Stenner (Mark if you read this [...]

The Melting Pot at RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks invites Tulsa women to “get connected” to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the nation’s leading pediatric cancer research and treatment center, on Jan. 25, 2010, at iFondue, a high-tech, ladies-only benefit. iFondue will feature a four-course fondue meal and Best Buy’s chic lines of cell phone, camera [...]

I first fell in love with Lucky’s ten years before it opened. Appropriately enough, it was on Valentine’s Day. My mom had been sick, but she rallied, and I wanted to take her to dinner. The only place that wasn’t fully booked was a restaurant I’d never heard of. Grille 51, in a building at [...]

Last weekend, Brian and I had a chance to visit the Oklahoma Wedding Show at the Expo Center. This event was put on by Oklahoma Magazine and was a great opportunity for Brides-to-be to meet with the best wedding vendors in the Tulsa area. From cake designers, DJ’s and musicians, photographers, bridal shops, wedding venues [...]

Here is a Tulsa Food Talk round up for your Friday afternoon enjoyment. If you don’t know about Tulsa Food Talk checkout the section under this post which explains Tulsa Food Talk. In my mind it’s like a foodie Talk blog or micro food blog for short form discussion on-the-go. Even cooler than that is [...]

Today I was reflecting on food pictures from over the past few months… there are tons of them (about 10,000). Sometimes It trips me out when I look at all the food pictures I take for fun. I ran across these few pictures and thought to myself, man, “this is how I like my ground [...]

Hibiscus is a Jamaican restaurant on Peoria exuberantly decorated in lollipop colors. It must be a pleasant place to be when it’s crowded with happy people, but when I stopped by last Friday around 3 PM it was totally empty. We looked around and left and then the owner came out and urged us to [...]

One thing I love about making soup is that it always ends up being special.  I will never forget the story that one of my elementary teachers told me about Stone Soup.  As you may know, the story is about a soup that started off with simply water and stones and as people passed by [...]

A few months ago I had lunch at Keo. It’s well worth the trip. The space is sleek and airy, with 15 foot ceilings and floor to ceiling windows. Upscale decor (and good service) with downscale prices. Most entrees are $9. The chef was born in Cambodia (though she grew up in Oklahoma) and most [...]

If you have not had a chance to visit Tulsa Food Talk check it out today. In short, Tulsa Food Talk is a place for random, fun food for thought in and around Tulsa and beyond. For a longer description of Tulsa Food Talk read below. In my mind it’s like a foodie Talk blog [...]

With my well thought out New Years resolutions in mind, I have been reflecting on some of the goodies that I enjoyed over the passed few weeks. I am sure that most people have resolutions that are food related… my main resolution is to not eat more then 100 cookies within a 7 day period [...]