Tulsa Food

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! [...]

Tulsa’s dining scene has exploded like nothing this city’s ever seen. New concepts, chefs being brought in from other cities and new and unique locations such as The Waterfront Grill. If you’ve driven across the Jenks bridge within the last several months, you may have noticed the construction to the south of the riverwalk. Drive [...]

I can’t remember a Tulsa without Lambrusco’z.  But I never ate there. I’ve had people tell me, oh you must go try it, and one of my friends sent me an impassioned recommendation months ago. But the setup, which is a lot like a medieval London cook-shop, put me off. Until last night. Now I [...]

Are you as sick as I am of hearing about Wolfgang Puck and his Bistro that opened on Brookside? I mean I’ve had his pizza before. Years ago out of town. Was good. Ate it all. But still, its just a thin crust pizza. When WPB (Wolfgang Puck Bistro) opened in Tulsa a while back [...]

Lately I’ve been tooting the horn for Tulsa with every review I write. It’s an exciting time. Finally we have restaurants worthy of New York or California or any place you can name. But what if you want cuisine as elegant and refined as New York but of a kind you just can’t get in [...]

We just got word that The Canebrake Kitchen has made a few major menu revisions. These revisions are seasonal and happen at least four times a year. If you don’t know about The Canebrake check out their website here and a past review about an amazing lunch experience we had there, the lamb lollipops where [...]

I think I have been invited to write about my experiences with restaurants in Tulsa and its environs. Being 70 and never involved in a blog, much less knowing what that acronym stands for, I will jump in. The moderator asked, who m I? I am David James. No, David Field James. The Field part [...]

Brassy, opulent, welcoming, its walls painted a gutsy bordello red, Ella’s Good Food is a brand-new place that feels like it’s been there forever. You could almost believe that (like Nelson’s Buffeteria) it started 80 years ago as a diner and turned into a speakeasy. You can almost feel the presence of the ghosts of [...]

“I think I have found my new favorite restaurant in Tulsa,” I satisfyingly proclaimed as we finished up our Jalapeno Cheesecake at the new Go West Restaurant & Saloon near New Sapulpa Road in Tulsa. Everything from the extravagant, contemporary western décor to the strong attention to detail in the silverware, I was strikingly impressed [...]

I always eat before I drink — I learned that the hard way — but I never seem to eat WHERE I drink. Dinner at home and then a night on the town is more my style. But if you want to combine the two, with an emphasis on the liquid part, you might want [...]

How often do you eat a lip-smackingly delicious dinner and then, much later, realize that you’ve been tricked into eating a totally healthy meal, prepared with no fat whatsoever and more crunchy locally grown veggies than you normally eat in a week? Oh, once in a Blue Moon. Blue Moon certainly does not advertise themselves [...]

It’s good to have a real Amish restaurant in Tulsa. Years ago in New York a guy from Turkey opened a store and called it Amish Grocery. Asked by a reporter why he chose that name, he replied “If I called it Turkish Grocery, who would come?” Amish deserve special respect in Tulsa. Their religion [...]

Not sure what you want to eat for lunch or dinner. My solution to that is a restaurant with a rotating menu or chalkboard. There are many restaurants in Tulsa that fulfill my indecisiveness. One of them is Campus Grill. Their always changing chalkboard seems to always have something exciting and garsh-darn good on it. [...]

A narrow upward-sloping path, the sun blazing down. The path is white and dusty, everything is white with heat-wave shimmer, the sun is fierce. There’s a scent of thyme in the air from Mount Hymettus, and the constant whirr of cicadas. You reach the top of the hill and gleaming white columns sparkle against the [...]

The Junkyard Dawg opened a little while ago and peaked my curiosity immediately.  I’m a massive hot dog (which I will be spelling dawg from now on) lover and am always interested in trying new places that serve them.  Always on the lookout for the perfect dawg.  Well driving home one day I noticed the [...]

Sit at the elegant wood-paneled bar at Fleming’s any night before seven and look out over a sea of diners eating delicious appetizers for which they’ll pay between $12.50 and $15 each. You, savvy customer, because you’re sitting at the bar and arrived before 7, are eating the exact same appetizers for six dollars a [...]

It’s Friday at noon. You’re tired, looking forward to the weekend, and what’s that sound? A hungry stomach, that’s what! You’ve hit all the usual spots and you are looking for something tasty and affordable. Click the image below to Join the Facebook Event page: Well, if you don’t mind my asking, what’s more affordable [...]