Tulsa Food

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. 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 the [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Being in business for nearly 50 years says one of two things; either you are good at what you do or people love what you are doing. Celebrity Restaurant is proud to claim both. Established in 1963 by long time Tulsan Mike Samara, this hometown tradition is shining example of fine dining excellence. Calling midtown [...]

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 [...]

From time to time the characters in Larry McMurtry’s great novel “Lonesome Dove” (after one of whom, the stalwart Woodrow McCall, Woodrow’s is named) got restless and when they did they’d talk of going north. One day they did, headed from Texas to Montana, and their journey took years to make. If they made that [...]

I used to walk four miles to go to Ron’s. Back then, Ron’s was located in what looked like, and probably at one time was, a little country shack out near Harvard. There was a long counter with about 12 stools. No tables. The place was always packed and there’d be a line of people [...]

There are many different kinds of sports bars. Some are constantly crowded within a shoebox of a space, with the regulars slugging dollar drafts at 10:00 in the morning on a Tuesday. Some are large and spread out with so much to explore you cannot focus on the game. And then there are those few [...]

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 [...]

Ok, I’ll admit it… I tend to light up like Tony Stark’s reactor at the mere mention of comfort food. My last interaction with a choice corned beef sandwich required surgery to remove the grin from my face. But, that doesn’t mean I can’t remain objective on the subject. In fact, it takes just the [...]

Located on main street in downtown Broken Arrow, Main Street Tavern sits on a busy corner inviting patrons in for a relaxing break. The restaurant/bar is a new fixture to the area, but feels like it has been there for decades. The owners, Jason and Kat Scarpa planned it that way. They renovated the 1904 [...]

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 [...]

Head down Memorial Drive just past the Arkansas river in Bixby to find catfish greatness, and I’m not talking about noodling it out from the river. I’m talking about a small bistro that serves up an all-you-can-eat catfish feast ($9.99) every Friday night from 5-8p.m. Cajun, regular or both, that’s what we did. I like [...]

It’s Friday night, or any 7 nights or afternoons of the week, you want a spot to chill with friends, a spot with charactor and some crazy good drink and food specials. That’s what I was thinking before my friends and I hit Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille last week. Fat Daddy’s is a pub [...]

There is something about summertime and the 21st and Yale area that brings about great feelings in Tulsa. It must be the water park, summer events at Expo Square, and memories from the old Drillers Stadium. Naturally, I associate memories with food and it seems like summertime mostly involves a burger in one hand and [...]

Go back a hundred years. The twentieth century is dawning and Red Fork is poised to become the Oil Capital of the World. The railway had reached it 20 years before and oil — lots of it — had just been discovered on Sue Bland’s land right in town. Drive there today, down Southwest Boulevard [...]

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 [...]

Yes lunch and yes a breakfast hotspot, Brookside By Day. I am always surprised at how amazing lunch can be at well known breakfast spots. I really shouldn’t be surprised, think about it, if you’re a breakfast restaurant, you are going to have the best bacon and a seasoned grill. The Burger – crispy, seared [...]

In MY (picky) opinion, there are three PERFECT Caesar Salads to be found in Tulsa, with the perfect marriage of garlic and lemon, plenty of tang from the proper use of mustard & Worcestershire, and no added “stuff” that would make it, in my book not a “real” Caesar (cream, tomatoes bacon etc…). One such [...]

It was Sunday afternoon, another beautiful Spring day in Tulsa. We wanted a patio, a burger and some down time. We just wanted to hang. The first restaurant that popped in my head was Campus Grill. We love their burger (weighing in at 1/2 pound) and I have been hearing things about a killer Memphis [...]

Have you heard the good news yet about the Pink House Restaurant? Here some news that we found on their blog: Pink House Ringing the Dinner Bell Well, after years of being known in Claremore as the top eating spot for lunch, we’ve turned a corner of sorts and are now also serving dinner. Yeah! [...]