Tulsa Food

Some foods inspire cravings. A few inspire obsessions. One of these is Banh Mi, that meal in a baguette that’s a marriage of French flair and Vietnamese flavor. Until a few months ago, if you wanted a Banh Mi you had to drive to Oklahoma City, and some people did. Then came the Lone Wolf [...]

I used to say that Mi Tierra was one of the best “ethnic” restaurants around. But lately they’ve stepped up their game, and I’ve been telling everyone who’ll listen that they are now one of the best restaurants around. I remember when, back in the ’90s, superchef Douglas Rodriguez arrived in New York from Miami [...]

I’ve been reading the chapter called “First Love” in D.H. Lawrence’s grand novel “The Rainbow” so maybe I’ve set the bar too high. When you dine at Naples Flatbread you won’t experience the surging passion that overwhelmed Ursula Brangwen when she first saw her glamorous army officer. You won’t rush star struck into the night [...]

Granted, the slogan “good mood food” is already taken, but if Arby’s hadn’t thought of it first…it could be aptly tied to Thai food…the best kind of comfort food I know. No matter what life experience you’re going through, Thai food provides a complimentary flavor fit for your mindset with a sublime blend of sweet, [...]

I never expected Five Guys to be good. But it was. Very very good. I should have known. Brian McCullough went up to Kansas City three weeks ago to get a jump on everybody before the Tulsa Five Guys opened, and did a great review of the Five Guys there. “Amazing” was how he described [...]

Acclaimed burger joint Five Guys has moved into Tulsa with its first location NOW OPEN at about 96th and Riverside. The location pictured below is 9635 Riverside Parkway and is open for burgers as of today, September 3rd at 11am. Five Guys is a franchised fast casual burger restaurant out of Virginia with locations all [...]

During the 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov, that cosmopolitan Russian emigre adrift in the wilds of upstate New York, had two passions: collecting rare butterflies and hunting down obscure, outre, compelling bits of Americana. I can’t begin to imagine his delight had he come upon that ruddy, squat yet soaring building by the river, not unlike the [...]

Established almost a year ago, the new south location is nice little getaway from midtown and downtown areas. Sometimes those other places are too stuffed, packed, cramped, etc. They get you in and get you out. A systematic routine of hording the hungry zombies. Not Cardigans. So, when mom called and said, “Lets do lunch!”, [...]

Supping in Suburbia: A Guide to Strip Mall Dining This is the first in a series of reviews aimed at finding great restaurants in that most unassuming of locales: the all American strip mall. Since moving to Tulsa last summer, it seems that most of my dining has been focused on a few choice areas. [...]

The Sage Rage Melt Bar that you have grown to love off Brookside has moved to their South Side Studio. From the Sage newsletter: We’re settling into the SAGE SOUTHSIDE STUDIO with our CHILDREN’S CLASSES and SAGE RAGE MELT BAR! Children’s class times have now been moved to later times for those who have further [...]

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. [...]