Tulsa Food

We hope to see you downtown tonight and Saturday afternoon for some award winning, smoked with love, finger licking good BBQ! Come early Saturday to get a sample plate. On behalf of The Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, we’d like to invite you to attend the 14th Annual Art of Barbeque, presented by Oklahoma [...]

Unless you’re over 50, Wilson’s was serving ribs before you were born. Back in 1961, there was a string of stellar barbecues along Apache and the various side streets. Wilson’s is the sole survivor. (Except for Stutts, which used to be called Ben’s back then.) Wilson’s, again except for Stutts, is just about the only [...]

You ready to get sauced? For real though, we are taking a 4 day weekend under the beautiful Oklahoma sky in Downtown Tulsa for the 2011 Rock ’n Rib Festival. That means four days of championship BBQ and live music on the streets outside the BOK Center. Come out for a national collaboration of award [...]

There are few eating establishments in Tulsa that I frequent. It’s hard to be a regular when every meal is an opportunity to explore Tulsa’s amazing up and coming dining scene. Although, if there was a spot that I would dine at often, it would be a smaller, low-key type of place like Claud’s, The [...]

I’ve passed by Albert G’s over the years and never even thought of stopping. It looks like an abandoned gas station (and at one point in its long history, it was). But that stretch of Harvard has a lot of hidden treasures. Brownies, Sproutz, Colony, Steve’s Books. And so early on a Tuesday evening, spurred [...]

Do you ever let your food take you on a journey? Maybe to another country, or to a different time period? This happens to me all the time. Sometimes food evokes memories with a special person or a fun moment with friends. It’s fun to imagine how chefs got their influence for a dish or [...]

“These are the best sides in Tulsa!” I exclaimed as we fought over the last onion ring. “And maybe the best beans anywhere.” “Certainly the best fried okra,” said Cathe. We used the word “best” a lot that evening. Usually I feel a twinge of guilt when I review a place that’s been open only [...]

Can you smell it? Awe… I can.  It’s the smell of hickory wood and grilled meats. But not just any meat, and for me, not on just any grill. Many long time readers may, or many not care – to know that I have a love affair type of relationship with my grill, she is [...]

The Bixby BBQ ‘n Music Festival is Bixby’s largest family event and BBQ competition in Oklahoma. Come taste great BBQ and bring your family for a local experience of fun, music, and food. Entry fee is only $5 per vehicle. The “People’s Choice BBQ” competition will be held from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM on [...]

“We don’t have an oven, we don’t have a stove top, we don’t have a frying pan, we don’t have a toaster,” says Adam Myers, owner of Burn Co BBQ. “Everything you get is cooked on our Hasty-Bake Charcoal Oven.” Adam spent 12 years as a salesman for the Hasty-Bake company, whose offices are less [...]

The competitive BBQ season is about to kick off with events like Bixby BBQ and Blues. For Jake’s Place BBQ, competing is second nature. As proof, next time you stop by, check out their trophy wall full of awards and honors. It is obvious that Jake’s Place BBQ is smoking up some serious BBQ! Tucked [...]

A new place. A talented chef. Seriously good barbecue. If I wrote reviews for Twitter, that would be my review of TreeHouse. But you’ll want more detail. First of all, the place. It used to be Oscar’s, and years before that it was a barbecue, bar and blues joint — which, in a way, it [...]

“Yall Come Back!” those words aren’t just written on the wall as you walk out of Billy Ray’s BBQ & Catfish, you are also guaranteed to hear it on your way out. That along with many other hospitable phrases and conversation from some of Tulsa’s most down home restaurant folk. The name of this place [...]

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. [...]

Johnnie “Big Daddy” Ball – (Johnnie Ball 1949-2010) It was summer of 2010 and a business phone call where the entrepreneur on the other end suggested we meet up for lunch at Big Daddys BBQ. The caller was Tommy ‘Lil Daddy’ Wallace. Wallace had just recently connected with his Father Johnnie ‘Big Daddy’ Ball (owner [...]

Went to the Art of the BBQ today to sample some world class bbq outside of the new ballpark today. For $10 I received a togo tray that was used to pile on the various ques each vendor had to sample. I knew I would receive some crazy great bbq, but didn’t know I would [...]

The Boston Deli’s Hasty Bake Cooking Class featuring Biltmore Wines was held Monday night 09.20.10. The class featured Boston Deli’s owner Ken Shafer utilizing grilling, smoking and baking technics on the best grill made in the world – Hasty Bake pared with a wonderful wine producer Biltmore Wines. The menu consisted of first course Ancho [...]

Tulsa’s annual “celebration of great taste” will take place on Friday, September 24th and Saturday September 25th, 2010 at ONEOK Field, presented by Oklahoma Central Credit Union and friends of the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa. It’s one of Oklahoma’s most popular competitions, with a Grand Champion selected to represent the state in the [...]

How often do you have a chance to sample up to seven world class competitive BBQ teams serving their best? Now you can thanks to Tulsa’s own Rib Cribs Rock ‘N Rib Fest that is in full swing downtown outside of the BOK Center. We’re talking great BBQ, great music, fun for the kids, and [...]

It’s finally here!  This Thursday the fun begins down by the BOK Center.  Sponsored by Tulsa’s very own Rib Crib, World renowned BBQ Competitors from around the nation will gather to see who can make the “Best” Ribs.  Who will you pick? Make it a family event…there is plenty for everyone to do at Rib [...]

If you love BBQ, there is only one place that you need to be on the weekend of September 16-19. Mark your calendars, because this is an event that you do not want to miss. Some of the best Pit-masters/Rib Cookers around the nation will be coming to Downtown Tulsa, OK for the Rib Crib’s [...]

There are a few entrances into my heart… one of them flows with BBQ sauce. It’s the one food that I think about more then hamburgers…maybe.  Last week I was on the south side of town with a friend of mine.  I knew we were gonna go have some lunch and was thinking to myself…A [...]