Tulsa Food

If you go to a convenience store whose blazing fire-red decor is an attempt to imitate QuikTrip and the proprietor tells you that you can get the best food in the world, you should be skeptical. But not if it’s this place, because there’s some truth to it. Inside you’ll find some of the best [...]

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 [...]

It’s normally not a good idea to travel ten miles out of your way to eat dinner at the food court of a mall. But it’s a great idea if the chef at that food court establishment used to own Taj India Cuisine in Oklahoma City, which had a loyal coterie of patrons who swore [...]

My trip to Sproutz was nothing short of refreshing. A small, hole-in-the-wall deli at 26th & Harvard – be on the lookout, it’s easy to miss. Sproutz has built up quite a reputation for serving fresh, healthy, out of the box meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sandwiches, Wraps, Salads, and homemade dressings that will [...]

You may know what I’m talking about from the famous hot-dog stands that make their way around downtown Tulsa and Peoria. This week that changes.  The Dog House is officially open in the old Phat Philly’s location (1101 South Detroit Avenue Tulsa, OK 74120). At the newly renovated brick and mortar location owner Josh and [...]

It was a warm summer night many years ago. The moon blazed down on southern Italy. My dad was lecturing in Naples and one of his Italian friends had taken us to an outdoor restaurant in a small nearby town. Now this guy was the first chowhound I’d ever met. He was rich and he [...]

If you keep up with my posts on Tulsa Food you might notice that I have preferences toward a few particular types of food. I think its obvious that I am in love with burgers, more burgers and anything BBQ. The word love may even be an understatement… a better word might be addiction considering [...]

Tucked neatly behind Long John Silvers/A&W between a liquor store and a Chinese restaurant on the NW corner of 21st and Garnett resides some of the most amazing grilled chicken ever. The place is called El Super Pollo, which I find to be humorous considering the mash of English and Spanish in its name. It [...]

You wake up late. It was one of those nights. Suddenly you remember. You promised to cook a gourmet meal for your girlfriend and she’ll be there in half an hour! And you have only $10. Well, now you can offer her “Farm-raised Poussin braised in Thyme, Fennel and Coriander”, served on a bed of [...]

“Even in Lima this would be a good restaurant,” I exulted. (Exulted is not a word I use every day, but it just seems so right here.) “In New York, chowhounds would walk for miles to eat here.” We were in the bright, cheerful dining room (okay, it’s all one room at this tiny place) [...]

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 [...]

Spring is in the air, and for me that means more tacos are going to be entering my mouth. I hope you are in the mood for tacos, because what I have for you is a Tulsa taco update. Now this aint no Taco Bueno taco, and this definitely aint no Tex-Mex that I have [...]

Some food items may be a little harder to justify traveling long distance to indulge on. There are only a few dishes I will travel for if I hear they are the best in the area. Rarely do I get very excited about going across town for a hamburger because there are so many mouthwatering [...]

I have never met someone that is not in some way on a search for good food.  From my experience, good food at a great value is hard to come by and unless you have an open mind sometimes this can be hard to accomplish. You have to be willing to take all recommendations and [...]

Corner Cafe might not be the ideal Valentine’s Day date. however, if you are looking for a bit of an adventure and an awesome chicken fried steak on Tulsa’s stretch of Route 66…this is your spot. For some, walking into Corner Cafe will give you a feeling that will make you want to walk out [...]

Check out this delicious lunch special from Chicory & Chives. This is Cajun grilled shrimp with cheese grits. The shrimp is spicy and tender and the cheese grits are definitely more sophisticated than they seem. Loaded with flavor (and bacon), they are so light and fluffy. The sausage was an unexpected extra and was not [...]

Go south on Memorial, past the malls and the huge new Super Target, and somewhere south of 150th St the busy 6-lane highway becomes a sleepy country road. You’re not in Tulsa anymore. Around 168th St there’s a fork in the road, and what looks like a little low-slung wood farmhouse appears. That’s the Lazy [...]

Recently, after being out with the swine flu, I decided to follow the old adage and seek a cure by finding the hair of the dog that bit me, or in this case pig (admittedly, I should have sought out the gentleman who was next to me on that flight from Dallas to New York [...]

If you haven’t checked out Joe at Joesburgersearch.com you’ve got to check out his latest post!  I recommend this blog to anyone who gets a healthy beef craving on a regular basis.  I encourage you to let Joe be your guide on your ultimate quest for burgers in Tulsa.  If you haven’t read his blog, [...]

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 [...]

With summer slowly beginning to fade I decided to join some friends up on Grand Lake. After spending the day relaxing on the waterfront, we went swimming and then went hiking down a spillway and then began to walk back through Disney, Oklahoma to the starting point of our trek. After all the activities of [...]

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 [...]

If you want to try something different, here’s a suggestion from a guy who works in the restaurant supply business, so I know restaurants intimately both front and back side. The Thai Garden Restaurant located just west of Elm on 71st in Broken Arrow,  has not only a very immaculate  kitchen, they also offer a [...]

Out for an afternoon drive, a friend and I stumbled across Freddie’s Hamburgers (not to be confused with the Freddie’s Frozen Custard chain). Freddie’s had been recommended from several different people on Tulsa Food and so we decided to stop in. The building is not much to look at but reminiscent of a grandma’s house [...]

After hearing several people rave about The Great Wall, I had to give it a shot. The building itself is nothing special with a smell that is a little musty and in desperate need of a coat of paint. The staff was very nice and helpful though. For starters we ordered some of their homemade [...]

I met up with a friend at his favorite burger joint Arnold’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers. It is definitely a dive with that greasy felling that you would expect at a hole in the wall burger joint. The food is so good though. I had a double cheeseburger, onion rings and a chocolate malt. The burger [...]