Tulsa Food

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 [...]

Last time while chowing down on a loaded Cobb Salad at LuLu’s (which has maple bacon, blue cheese, tomatoes, egg and avocado), I remember hearing a little girl refer to LuLu’s as, “The Cupcake Place”. I noticed a lot of parents and children in LuLu’s, but also saw a lot of locals off in the [...]

Don’t let the name fool you, although The Boston Deli does serve a line up of classic sandwiches, we found this long time Tulsa restaurant a place to explore far from ordinary classics for lunch and upscale bold contemporary food for dinner. The Boston Deli is a place to explore food, take for instance their [...]

Here is a unique opportunity to learn to cook from Chef Richard Schlosberg, the executive chef of McBirney Mansion, who recently received a four star rating from Scott Cherry for his brunch. Chef Bootcamp is a 7-week intensive course for those who are ready to take their cooking to the next level! Classes begin September [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Gluten Free pizza seems to be popping out of many restaurant ovens these days and I am eager to get my paws on it all! I love many of the pies around town and I have found a pizza that makes my taste buds trill, ONE LOVE, ONE HEART, and ONE GLUTEN FREE “DEEPER DISH” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One halcyon summer long ago, when I was at that age when Proustian memories are effortlessly formed, my parents and I went motoring around the English countryside. My dad had it planned so that we stopped each night at a grand old country inn, built around the time when Shakespeare was a boy and little [...]

After working up an appetite whiffing golf balls at LaFortune park, D and I decided to try the Thai restaurant on the corner- Bamboo Thai Bistro. With its plain facade and strip mall local I learned not to judge a book by its cover. Things are not always as they seem! Though its name professes it to [...]

Oh my gosh, clothes, shoes and accessories…. The Market at 8281 South Harvard Avenue is awesome for those things. But wait a second, I’m a dude and ya…although The Market is amazing for shopping, there is something even more special about this spot that everyone should know about. Hidden in the back left corner of [...]

I’m a biscuit and gravy, bacon and egg kind of dude. But lets be honest…you can’t eat that everyday. These days there are so many breakfast options and being that its the most important meal of the day I recommend exploring all the options. We recently discovered not just a variety of breakfast wraps and [...]

It’s the weekend, late morning. Not quite feeling breakfast, not quite feeling lunch. There’s no better solution than a good ‘ole brunch. Brunch at Sarah’s fits the bill for a hole-in-the-wall breakfast/lunch place. It just reminds you of one of those places “where the locals eat.” Very small, yet cozy with plates flying out of [...]

There are quite a few more good Thai restaurants in Tulsa than you’d have a right to expect, and some of them are surprisingly good. Lanna Thai, while not the best (that would be My Thai) easily falls in that class. I remember when it was the best. When it opened ten years ago in [...]

Gusano’s Chicago Style Pizza recently opened in South Tulsa at about 101th and Mingo and they are coming to Tulsa with a big claim. Their website says that they make, “THE best Chicago-style deep dish pizza in the world”. If you love pizza and that does not get you excited, I don’t know what will. [...]

“We’re in a totally different restaurant!” I said as I took my first bite of the delicious fried chicken at Duke’s Southern Kitchen. I’d visited Duke’s once before, during opening week. What I found was a restaurant with no clear vision of itself, a place that swung the bat with all its might, swung and [...]

Can you see it? Smell it? Feel it? Awe…. signs of Springs are here and don’t waste one single minute not taking in the beauty that is upon us. One way to take in that beauty is by eating it. I mean in the shape of flowers, Shamrocks and other tasty signs of spring! If [...]

We’d had some business near the Jenks aquarium, it was after seven, and we were tired. We wanted something fast and easy, with really good food. I’d remembered reading about More than Noodles, a tiny place near the Wal-Mart on Riverside. It was a good choice. Walk through the glass doors and there’s a huge [...]

I hadn’t been back to Mi Tierra since I wrote my review last July. Until last night. I took some of my friends for Valentine’s Day and we were greeted with a lovely new dining room, decorated for the night with hearts and flowers. The old dining area, with tables scattered among shelves full of [...]

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 [...]