Tulsa Food

I’d never eaten at Dilly Deli. That was a big mistake. Judging from my meal last night, a meatloaf worthy of any restaurant in Tulsa, I’ve missed some fine food. Still, I’m not a big fan of sandwiches for dinner, and though I always meant to go, and at one point even was friends with [...]

Stop at the door and pick up a cowboy hat. It’s bright blue or orange, made of plastic, and it’s free. There are plastic sheriff’s badges too, and chalk to draw on the tables. Play Picasso while you wait for your “Frontier Appetizers”, which include treats like fried pickles, fried mushrooms and candied bacon ($6 [...]

Cardigan’s… an old Tulsa standby that offers good hearty food and a good hearty welcome. If you watch a 1930s musical movie about England, you’ll probably see dukes and earls in fancy evening dress singing and dancing around. But if you spied on real-life dukes and earls tramping around their big country estates on a [...]

The lady loved milk. She’d even drink it with steak and potatoes. So when I gave her a glass of Lomah Dairy milk which I’d just bought at Petty’s I thought she’d be thrilled. She took a big swig, her face contorted, she spat it out. “EWWWWW! IT TASTES LIKE MILK!” “Of course it does, [...]

Lately I’ve reveled in the explosion of top-notch world-class cuisine in Tulsa. Not everyone has. “Brian,” I can hear them saying, “I don’t want fancy food at fancy prices. I’m just a meat-and-potatoes guy and I want the kind of food we’ve always had in Tulsa. But I want it really really good!” There’s a [...]

Most of John Grisham’s courthouse thrillers take place in small Southern towns, and in just about every one of them there’s a small diner or luncheonette where the whole town, from the mayor, store owners and lawyers all the way through to the guys repaving the street outside gather for breakfast. Everybody knows everybody and [...]

Here at TulsaFood.com…we’re just a collective group of Foodies that get together to talk casually about Tulsa food. We eat and write and embarrass ourselves as we snap pictures of our food in public. I have to admit…one of my favorite foods to photograph is the cheeseburger. In its glory, there is no better feeling [...]

I first visited Smoke on a blustery winter’s night in late December 2010. It was opening night, coming hard on the heels of a blizzard that just about shut the city down, and yet the cooking was just about perfect. So was the service (and it still is). I wrote a rave review and, though [...]

“I’m obviously a meat & potatoes kind of girl.” I was ploughing through my Facebook and this post, written at Golden Corral, caught my eye. “When I finally sat down, I realized I had new potatoes, French fries & mashed potatoes! With roast, grilled chicken, bourbon chicken, orange chicken & steak. And tilapia. And corn. [...]

“I want to come here every week and eat these scallops! ” I declaimed — and declaimed is probably the right word, I was so excited by the stellar food that my voice could be heard across the restaurant. I was savoring the first course in a five course banquet at one of the best [...]

A tiny diner, delicious down-home cooking, everything made from scratch. You’d expect to find a lot of places like that in Tulsa, but I can’t think of any. Now, though, there’s one newly opened a few miles north of town. The story is a bit like “Grapes of Wrath” in reverse, with a happy ending. [...]

The Rusty Crane is just a few short weeks from opening. In looking past all of the details such as building codes, locations of outlets and where all of our conduit is being laid out, we are seeing the characteristics of our vision come into focus. It is amazing to see what has been in [...]

Once every few years, readers of the New York Times wake up to find a front-page headline announcing “A Four-Star is Born”. That’s the Times’ way of announcing that a new restaurant had joined the rarefied pantheon of five or six worthy of the top rating and therefore of worldwide acclaim. Based on one brief [...]

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 [...]

I’ve neglected Sonoma Bistro of late, but when I finally decided to review it the food was so good that I made two visits instead of one. The word “bistro” has for me associations of simple, unpretentious and welcoming, and that’s what I found. I usually think of bistros, at least in this country, as [...]

Scotland born Charlie Mitchell played for the North American Soccer League at the age of 18. Moving around here and there during his 10 year professional career, he retired from the Toronto Blizzard and returned to Tulsa to coach the Tulsa Roughnecks in 1979. And just like many other retired Scottish soccer players, he opened [...]

Rarely is it a case when I find myself making it to Collinsville. In fact, I’ve only graced this peculiar little town with my presence once in several years, and that was just recent as well, to visit some friends. As you readers have probably noticed lately, I’ve been perusing through the pub scene lately [...]

We know that smoothies are a multi-billion dollar industry and have for years, targeted the health conscious in this country. Health-wise, however, they can be a hit or miss proposition. Some are really just glorified milkshakes without a semblance of fresh fruit or fresh ingredients. So sugary you feel a pending diabetic seizure with each [...]

I love downtown, but I hardly ever get down there. Sometimes, its just too inconvenient. I recently heard from a bird that The Hunt Club has been opening for lunch past couple months. So, I decided to check it out while I just conveniently happened to already be downtown. A quaint and cool little place [...]

A true test to a restaurant’s ability to keep the good food pumping out is on Friday and Saturday nights. When I heard the The Spudder had some new changes, I decided to put that to the test. We weren’t disappointed. The family and I showed up in casual fashion as this is a casual [...]

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!”, [...]

It was Saturday and the prime time of the night, but Brookside was deserted. Bar after empty bar, all dismal and dreary, and then I wandered into R at the corner of 34th. Oh the place was packed! I could barely squeeze in the door. Sultry svelte women in those little black dresses and pearls, [...]

“Oh you should have seen the Philtower in all its glory!” crowed my neighbor’s friend. She’d worked there 40 years before. Ah but I had. I’d been there the night before. I stepped inside the lobby, its walls glowing like a cathedral, the ethereal Gothic sculpting as fine as when Edward Delk designed it in [...]

Dining at SMOKE on Cherry Street provides a unique execution of otherwise ordinary dishes. With a locally grown focus and a high standard for the finest quality of food you can expect nothing but excellence from SMOKE. Not your ordinary salad, the Bacon and Egg salad is full of goodies like Frisee lettuce, Goat Cheese, [...]

This post is brought to you by OKfoodie, the only radio show in Oklahoma for foodies. [powerpress] After staking his claim as one of Tulsa’s top chefs in the kitchens of Caio, The Brasserie, Sonoma and Duke’s, Chef Justin Thompson finally has his own place, Juniper. It’s easily the most-talked-about restaurant opening in Tulsa in [...]

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” That’s the first thought that comes to mind when entering in the seasonally, well decorated Celebrity Restaurant in Midtown Tulsa. This Tulsa favorite specializes in a holiday environment that is rivaled by few. Eating at home with friends and family are some of the perks of the [...]