Tulsa Food

Chef James Shrader is part of the Tulsa legend. Listen to the stories they tell, stories like you’d hear about an old-time oilman or cattle baron. They tell how he started cooking while still a kid, a young grade schooler in Seattle trying to devise the perfect spaghetti sauce. How his eyes were opened to [...]

I found myself in many conversations with fellow foodies, chefs and restaurant owners about the food and service that is, “magical” over at Michael V’s Restaurant on 103rd and Memorial. I thought to myself, surely I would have been here sooner if it were that good. I later found out that I have, only it [...]

The first thing you see when you open the ornate gold-bound menu at Mir and Mehdi Khezri’s spiffy new restaurant is a quote from Virginia Woolf. I think it’s from “A Room of One’s Own”. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” There’s no fear of not dining [...]

1988. President Reagan was sending aid to our allies, including a young man named Osama bin Laden, to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. If you had a great time at the bar and wanted to share it, you’d snap some photos, rush to the store to have the film developed, and then run to [...]

There’s a new chef in town. Veteran chef Steve Howard has left the building and Matt Owen rode in from the west to replace him. Owen looks a bit like a young Clark Kent, but put him near an oven and he transforms into Superchef. He’s worked as chef at the Living Foods Market in [...]

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 [...]

It was a “Beam Me Up, Scotty” moment. In fifteen minutes from our doorstep we arrived at Ristorante Bertacco in Motta di Livenza, not far from Venice. http://www.hotelbertacco.it But, it was the other way around, the chef came here and created a meal that was as miraculous as what Scotty did. Walter Munaretto, the General [...]

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 [...]

This is not a review. My friend Mark Stenner ate what he says was the best meal of his life at The Kitchen, a long and fabulous bacchanalia which he thinks was eight courses though he lost count somewhere along the way. So he should write the review. But this is Tulsa Food after all, [...]

There’s no question why Restaurant Week is so special. An opportunity for Tulsans to eat at some of Tulsa’s finest restaurants which use the finest ingredients that normally come at a much higher price. This week, Tulsa Food writers have become fans of mainly the lunch selections of the 13 or so restaurants participating in [...]

Restaurant Week Starts This Sunday and Continues September 12 – 18 2010 Are you in the mood to eat at some of the greatest restaurants in Tulsa at a great price, all while helping a great cause? Well this is your week. Restaurant Week starts this Sunday and includes 16 great restaurants. You can pick [...]

What happens when Tulsa’s finest chefs switch places with the best chefs from Oklahoma City for a single night? Come taste for yourself at Odyssey de Culinaire, an elegant evening of fine wine and delicious culinary creations. The Oklahoma Restaurant Association (ORA) will set sail its annual voyage of Odyssey de Culinaire on Thursday, July [...]

By all means, go for the view. It’s the best in Tulsa. And the paintings, those dreamy, brooding, majestic works by Bierstadt, Moran, Remington, Homer — they’re world-famous and you can spend the day happily lost in their verdant worlds. But I went for the food, and it’s well worth the trip. I had always [...]

Back in the day when Tulsa was oil capital of the world, anyone who even dreamed of being anyone stayed at the Mayo Hotel. John F. Kennedy, Katherine Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Wayne, Mae West, all that gilded long-gone elite. Pretty Boy Floyd never stayed [...]

Who would have known that this little treasure is located right outside of Wagoner, OK?  From the conscious effort of using only environmentally friendly products to the re-creation of an old horse barn, The Canebrake is really something special. As an Oklahoman, you should be proud too.  What is a canebrake you ask?  Well first off, canebrake [...]

Valentine’s Day is a special time to really show what you are made of to your spouse. This year we are really challenging you to go above and beyond to express one thing…that’s Love. We know that Tulsa isn’t the city of love, however, there are many locally owned romantic restaurants that are sure to [...]

High-end meals don’t have to come with big price tags in this town.  My research is turning up some great deals on all kinds of fine dining, we’re even finding wine deals. But here I’m going to tell you about the best of the best, sushi deals and steak specials. It was while eating Fuji’s [...]

With Oktoberfest and Halloween with the kids coming up, this might be the last weekend to get a nice romantic dinner in. Brian and I had the chance to visit Bodean Seafood Restaurant and Fish Market. Wow. I cannot believe this beautiful gem is tucked away in South Tulsa. This is definitely a fine-dining restaurant [...]

Classy, stylish, sophisticated atmosphere, and some of the most elaborate food in town. Lucky’s menu, created by owners Matt and Brooke Kelley themselves, features something appealing for everyone. The menu was inspired by Matt’s extensive culinary training and visiting many culturally diverse places such as New York, Chicago and Mexico to create this lush menu [...]

Its a beautiful morning, and I get a phone call from a good friend that is in town! She had just gotten out of class at OSU-Tulsa, and asks me if I would like to go to lunch today.  Since she is new to Tulsa, she asks if there is a place I recommend close [...]

With a unique approach to creating and presenting some of the most beautiful dishes in town, executive Chef Justin Thompson decided to create one of the specials that will be available during Restaurant Week. We also had the pleasure to speak with manager Mark Shefield at Sonoma Wine Bar and Bistro. Located in modern and [...]