Tulsa Food

Freebirds World Burrito has made its way to Tulsa and the masses are enjoying. The privately owned California burrito chain serves customized burritos with flavor and style. Pick from multiple tortilla sizes, even a huge 7 pounder. Freebird serves up fresh flavors and amazing hot sauces. Behold the cross section of my carne asada burrito [...]

Think about restaurants, think about Tex-Mex, and you’ll probably get an image of a lazy, cheerful little cantina with sombreros on lollipop-colored walls, indifferent food and service, and killer margaritas. Walk through the sculpted cast-iron doors of Mi Cocina, and those images will be forever dispelled. Mi Cocina, the first branch outside Texas of an [...]

I don’t think there is any doubt that Mexican cuisine is the most complex and sophisticated in the New World. (Sorry, Peru!) Many of the dishes date back to pre-Columbian times, and their startling blend of flavors seem like relics of an ancient, long-forgotten and inscrutably alien civilization. And the pinnacle, the absolute apex of [...]

Judging by the number of Mexican restaurants in Tulsa I would have to say it might be one of Tulsa’s favorite types of foods. Maybe it’s the ability to share flavorful food with a friend that makes this food so great. It may seem hard to differentiate between the many Mexican restaurants around, but Tres [...]

Cinco De Mayo is around the corner and we want to help you celebrate next week with style and taste. With four Tulsa-area locations, Compadres Mexican Grill is a local haven for great Mexican food and drinks with a kid-friendly environment, accommodations for large crowds, quick seating, bar seating with big screens to catch a [...]

Fly over Brookside by night and it’s a glittering string of diamonds. But head south of the Interstate and all the glitter’s gone. Forlorn, half-abandoned strip malls huddle by the road, and in one of them you’ll find Casa Frida. Step through the door, though, and you’re in another world. A tropical beach world of [...]

Local Eateries Finding Success Beyond Our Borders We thought it would be fun to look at some Oklahoma restaurants that not only are thriving, but have expanded regionally and, in some cases, nationally with their chain. Although many are very unique and different in their business approach, they all share the common ground that they [...]

Some people ask me how I get around to so many random restaurants. My secret…. I often find myself randomly driving around Tulsa looking for a cure to a void in my life at that moment. Hungry! I don’t mind driving for 20 – 30 minutes before I find something that looks good. Last week [...]

It was our last outing before the snow. We wanted something warm, homey, comfortable. “I’ve heard of a place called La Hacienda,” I said. It was a good choice. Both the food and the restaurant live up to that description. It’s a tiny place, welcoming, and run by friendly people. The chef when it opened [...]

I’ve talked so much about Wolfgang Puck and Brady Tavern and Gemma’s, so I offered to take my best friend there. Nooooo, she said, let’s go to Senor Tequila! Oooookay. I hadn’t been there in years. I remember the original branch on a now-demolished corner of 51 and Harvard. Mexican families drinking their half-gallon margaritas. [...]

The first time I saw the “Tamale Man” was at the corner of 15th and Boston.  I think it was in 1956, the year I received my Morgan Plus 4 and began tooling around Tulsa.  There he was, a metal push cart lighted with a lantern and protected with an umbrella.  Whiffs of steam and [...]

I’ve never been to the original branch of La Flama on 61st Street, but I think I’m the only one. It’s a small, homey place that serves simple, rigorously authentic Mexican food to recent immigrants eager for a taste of home. You can see the owner smiling, and from what I hear he’s not just [...]

When someone asks me about Mexican food in general, it’s easy for me to get really specific about what it is that I like. When I think Mexican food, the only thing that comes to my mind are the dozen or so times I have kicked back on a beach in Baja with a taco [...]

Tucked neatly behind Long John Silvers/A&W between a liquor store and a Chinese restaurant on the NW corner of 21st and Garnett resides some of the most amazing grilled chicken ever. The place is called El Super Pollo, which I find to be humorous considering the mash of English and Spanish in its name. It [...]

El Rio Verde is one of those places that seems like it’s been there forever. I don’t remember how I first discovered it. I used to wander quite a bit around that part of the Northside, so I might have come across it in one of my explorations. But its location is so obscure and [...]

Tres Leches (Three Milk ) Cake has become a weakness in my life. I have tried many versions but my favorite is the first one that I tried several years back. None of that strawberry filling stuff, just great dense sweet cake and sweeter milk. It is the made by the folks at Pancho Anaya. [...]

If you’ve been reading this blog, you’re no stranger to Elote Cafe. There have been several reviews and everyone loves it. All their food comes straight from local farmers. Now I’m a huge fan of local farmers. There’s nothing finer than corn or tomatoes fresh off the vine. And so I expected to be blown [...]

Elote Café and Catering prepare delicious, fresh, organic Mexican food for people in Tulsa and the surrounding area. They are also environmental trend setters. We’ve met them before when they opened Elote Café and Catering in May 2008. They recycle glass, aluminum, plastic and cardboard with local recyclers “Recycling Revolution.” They support local family farms, [...]

Two of my favorite things in the whole world are holidays and vacation. First off, on Vacation I eat whatever I want and as much of it as I want. You may think that’s terrible but I call it “living to eat.” On that same note, one of my favorite vacations is to Mexico and [...]

Cinco De Mayo is here (Tomorrow, May 5th) and we want to help you participate by either partying hard or visiting one of Tulsa’s many Mexican restaurants. When it comes to Mexican food, Tulsa definitely has a long list of establishments that will feed anyone’s perception of good Mexican food. Check out the list below [...]

When you walk into the new Senor Tequila in south Tulsa, it’s like walking into a restaurant in sunny Mexico. The colors are bright and inviting, and you are whisked away to enjoy an authentic Mexican meal. Owners Carlos and Elisha Atilano chose the Plaza del Sol Shopping Center at 101st and Mingo Road for [...]

It’s 4 am on Saturday morning and you are starving. I am not going to ask why you are up or what you were/are doing but still you are hungry. You don’t want to eat at the normal fast food place but you don’t want to go in somewhere because, face it, no one looks [...]