Tulsa Food

Easily one of the most discussed topics on this website, and a large part of the food foundation of Tulsa, the hamburger is something Tulsa takes very seriously.  Mix that with one of the craziest food events of the year, I’m talking about the Tulsa State Fair, add a little movie /pop culture on top [...]

“Come on Milk,” says his rascally friend Guitar Bains in Toni Morrison’s magical novel “Song of Solomon”. “This ain’t New York; choices are limited.” But this was fifty years ago and more, he wasn’t in Tulsa, and he wasn’t looking for fried chicken. New fried chicken places are springing up in Tulsa every week or [...]

Baker’s Fish House is way way off the grid. Your GPS can’t find it. The street address is just plain wrong. No one is sure what town it’s in. Some say Porter, others say Oktaha, and a few maintain it’s in Wagoner. Best to say it’s somewhere between Wagoner and Muskogee, right near the Verdigris [...]

The crown has been passed. There’s a new king in town. Let it be known throughout the land that the new Grand Pooh-Bah, Supreme Monarch and Reigning Emperor of Fried Chicken in the State of Oklahoma is A-1 Chicken Shack on 46th Street North in the City of Tulsa! The whispers first reached me a [...]

Memories have a way of becoming a bit foggy, and if you haven’t noticed, things we remember tend to get idealized beyond what they were in realty. That’s why I wasn’t sure what to expect when I paid a visit to Rex’s Chicken recently. The brand has recently been revived by Beautiful Brands International in [...]

Ew…are you kidding me? Deep Fried Butter? Disgusting, gross! – Some of the hateful words that have been expressed toward me throughout my Tulsa State Fair journey this year. My words back to you…don’t hate. (But don’t worry, I can handle em. Keep the hate and the love coming!) This year, one of the new [...]

Ahhhh. That’s the sound of me taking a deep breath. Finally a time of the year when I can truly be myself. A time of the year when everybody eats above and beyond in portion and crazy/unhealthy/gluttonous foods. During fair season, my memory often takes me back to childhood memories of watching Charlotte’s Web. One [...]

Tulsa has more great fried fish and pork and chicken places than any city has a right to expect, from Evelyn’s by the airport to Lazy Fisherman way down south in Bixby. But Sweet Lisa’s just might win the crown. A place like that in New York would have lines out the door. Sweet Lisa’s [...]

I’ve never much liked the term “comfort food” but if you had to use it just once in your life, you’d probably use it about the food at Nelson’s Ranch House. When Dorothy was lounging in the Wizard of Oz’s fancy palace and all she could think of was going home, it might have been [...]

Leave the glitzy hotels and glassy skyscrapers of downtown, cruise a few blocks down Archer — doing just what Bob Wills did in “Take Me Back to Tulsa” when he sang “let me off at Archer and I’ll walk down to Greenwood” — walk through the old wood door of Abears, and you’ll enter a [...]

We hope you are HUNGRY!!! In case you missed the Tulsa State Fair, and want another event to attend, Oktoberfest begins this week! The 2009 Tulsa Oktoberfest starts on Thursday, October 22nd, and continues through Sunday, October 25th. Oktoberfest is going on 31 years in Tulsa and has been honored nationally by USA Today and [...]

I have been dreaming about this burger since I left! Talk about an awesome time and an incredible burger! Check out this video from one of Tulsa’s best burger places: Claud’s Hamburgers on Peoria. Joe wrote an awesome review about our experience, make sure to check out his blog at http://www.joesburgersearch.com See the video on [...]

Treat yourself to a deep fried banana at the Tulsa State Fair this year. Check out this video of us trying out a deep fried banana at the Tulsa State Fair.  After trying a deep fried banana for the first time I have to say, it was really good. This banana has made my, “must [...]

Nachos, taquitos, deep-fried burritos, and other foods that are neat-o . At the Tulsa State Fair you can eat funnel cakes, corndogs big and small, deep fried Snickers Bars or Twinkies (hopefully) and so many other exotic fair foods that fulfill any foodie’s deep fried dreams. The Famous Tulsa State Fair is just around the [...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year again!  However we are not talking about Christmas, but rather the Tulsa State Fair!  The Fair, running from October 1 to October 11, is a smorgasbord of sights, smells, events and most importantly food!  This year is no different.  In the hundred years since the first Tulsa [...]

Hammett House, in Claremore, is one of those restaurants that is absolutely worth the drive out to Suburbia. The Hammett House has been a Claremore staple since 1969 and remains the ultimate restaurant in the area to get “Down-Home Cooking”. The Hammett House is one of those hidden gems in the Tulsa area that you [...]

Who-oo..Who-oo..In case you don’t speak owl, that means exceptionally good! Spontaneous evenings are the best!  Both of us were tired and didn’t feel like cooking dinner.  We decided to drive down to The Full Moon restaurant on 15th street.  Thursdays they have $3 hamburgers!  You can’t beat that at a sit down restaurant!  When we [...]

I moved here in 2005 and have loved experiencing all the new foods, but oh how I have missed the soulful family cooking I grew up with in Tennessee. I’d never heard of Shiloh’s until I saw it on here and when I brought it up to others they were practically drooling over the name! [...]

In the mood for some really good salmon a friend and I decided after much deliberation to try Bone Fish Grill. I had never been there before but I had heard some amazing things from some very reliable sources. Though we briefly looked at the menu, once our waitress told us about their two for [...]

We, at Tulsa Food, love our burgers. We have made it our quest to find the absolute best burger in town. Last night we definitely found a new contender in the form of the new burger joint in the Hills Shopping Center, Smashburger. We had the privilege of attending Smashburger’s pre-opening run. Smashburger is a [...]

Out to lunch for business, my coworker and I stopped by Fat Daddy’s Pub. He had been wanting to try it for years, yet for whatever reason had never managed to drop by. We showed up on a Tuesday which happened to be Cheap Taco Day. My coworker ordered the fish and chips and one [...]

The Brook Restaurant and Grill Loaded Cheese Fries, more like Brook loaded mountain of fries, Cheese, Bacon and Jalapenos, mmhmmm. One order of these will set you up for the next 2 meals if not more (see the link below to our leftover video). The Brook Restaurant is a great place that you can always [...]