Tulsa Food

I once told a top food critic that a great new restaurant was opening next week. I thought he’d be thrilled to be there on opening night. No, I’ll go in a month or two, he said, give ‘em time to work out the kinks. I should have done that with Duke’s. Though we got [...]

One of my favorite dishes, Biscuit & Gravy, is a southern dish normally eaten for breakfast and the comfort it bring me is second to none. Those of you that know me understand that my love for hamburgers is rooted in my soul. Last weekend, at opening night of the new Duke’s Southern Kitchen in [...]

A spanking new Thai restaurant has come to grace the tired old strip mall at 51st and Yale. From the outside, it looks like an abandoned McDonald’s, but walk inside and you’re in a totally different world: austere, modern and very red. A few months ago, I reviewed My Thai Kitchen, and in that review [...]

Are you as sick as I am of hearing about Wolfgang Puck and his Bistro that opened on Brookside? I mean I’ve had his pizza before. Years ago out of town. Was good. Ate it all. But still, its just a thin crust pizza. When WPB (Wolfgang Puck Bistro) opened in Tulsa a while back [...]

Lately I’ve been tooting the horn for Tulsa with every review I write. It’s an exciting time. Finally we have restaurants worthy of New York or California or any place you can name. But what if you want cuisine as elegant and refined as New York but of a kind you just can’t get in [...]

I must admit, the name threw me off a bit. I mean Pink, are you kidding. I guess I was assuming dainty tea cups, women in funny hats and portions that couldn’t choke a horsefly. But, to my euphoria (I like that word), not only was the food incredible but the portions were hearty and [...]

Back Alley Blues and BBQ, opening in April 2011, has a unique plan for its menu that brings the community and charitable giving together. Back Alley’s “Side Search” is a three-month series of monthly cook-offs where the community members will provide their best recipes for pre-determined side dishes to be selected for the restaurant’s menu. [...]

We were so lucky to sample entrees to be offered at the new Duke’s Southern Kitchen.  Duke’s will be Opening in Bixby/South Tulsa right next to the Spirit Bank Event Center this weekend or next week (have not gotten official word yet). With great excitement for this new Tulsa restaurant, we wanted to share a [...]

We just got word that The Canebrake Kitchen has made a few major menu revisions. These revisions are seasonal and happen at least four times a year. If you don’t know about The Canebrake check out their website here and a past review about an amazing lunch experience we had there, the lamb lollipops where [...]

I can’t remember a more exciting time for Tulsa dining than these bleak snowy days that began the new year. Four new restaurants opened, each offering elegant polished perfection, and each time I’d order a meal thinking, oh this just can’t be better than the last — and it was. It was as if what [...]

“You’re in a downtown bar!” I told my friends as they looked around in fearful wide-eyed wonder. “You’re in a downtown bar!” Yes, there are people who would never in their lives set foot in a downtown bar unless they have a very good reason. The best hot dogs and fries around — that’s reason [...]

A-hoy mate… raaawr… huh? What? No, really. Combine Pirates of the Caribbean and Jurassic Park and you’ve got a fair charicature of Dominca. This Caribbean island (with zero relation to the Dominican Republic) is odd as far as the Caribbean goes. The island looks like a “land-before-time,” filled with colossal green mountains, sky-scraper trees, and [...]

On Thursday night at 7pm, noted food writer Amanda Hesser will speak at the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. The event is sponsored by Booksmart Tulsa and TulsaPeople. In town to promote her latest release, “The Essential New York Times Cookbook,” Hesser will speak, take questions and sign copies of her book. Selected on [...]

The Melting Pot to Host Darms Lane Wine Dinner Jan. 16-22 Four-course fondue meets Oklahoma-owned Napa Valley wines The Melting Pot will take guests on a culinary journey Jan. 16-22 with wines from Oklahoma-owned Darms Lanewinery. Guests can enjoy the four-course dinner and pairings anytime during the week beginning at 5 p.m. each day. On [...]

I’m honestly reluctant to write this review and share it with you. I love Lunabread Local Foods Emporium and dread the day that everyone knows about it, fills up its limited space, and eats all of their artisan creations before I do. My eating affair with Lunabread Local Foods Emporium began last summer at the [...]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” in Tulsa’s food scene. We can drive the streets and barely a mile passes without whiffing hot grease from a restaurant that is glaring with neon frying something we should not eat but in that same mile we may also whiff the aroma [...]

If you’re an East Coast transplant homesick for New York and you can’t afford the price of a plane ticket home, just get yourself to the corner of Brady and Main. You’ll find a row of old brick houses that could have been moved brick by brick from the city where walking is a pastime [...]

If there’s one thing people like to do in this town we call Tulsa, it’s eat. Be sure to add these latest finds by Tasha Ball over at TashaDoesTulsa.com to your list of places to try. Sproutz: Get around early for earth-friendly fare: Read More Dining Out (with kids): Play with food at Sprouts Play [...]

One of my favorite things to brag about Tulsa on is the many entrepreneurs that have followed their hearts, took risk and succeeded in making an idea reality that millions have since enjoined. One of those individuals that I personally admire is Ken Selby the founder of Mazzio’s Pizza. Below is a press release about [...]

Traveling is fun. Regardless of the size of city you travel to, you can always rely on tools such as local food bloggers, urbanspoon or yelp and even national tv networks to point you in the direction of mind-blowing food at unique joints. A few days back while passing through Amarillo, we hit up Coyote [...]

Djibouti: if you’re pronouncing the name of this African country right, English-speaking people will raise their eyebrows. Try it out – “dja booty.” The word has had endless inappropriate puns associated with it. But let’s move past the unusual name… to the unusual food situation. According to doctor’s without borders, less than 1/2 of 1 [...]