Tulsa Food

“It’s a gastropub.” Most restaurateurs have to stop and pause when asked to describe their restaurant with one word, but Brian Biehl, talking of The Alley, which opened Monday night, doesn’t hesitate. A gastropub, for those who don’t know (and I sort of knew but did use Google) combines the convivial, homey ambiance of a [...]

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 [...]

Granted, the slogan “good mood food” is already taken, but if Arby’s hadn’t thought of it first…it could be aptly tied to Thai food…the best kind of comfort food I know. No matter what life experience you’re going through, Thai food provides a complimentary flavor fit for your mindset with a sublime blend of sweet, [...]

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 [...]

A new Mexican restaurant has opened in Tulsa!! This announcement usually elicits more yawns than raised eyebrows. But Dex’s Mexican Grill stands head and shoulders above the rest. (Well, most of the rest.) Why? Perhaps it’s the daughter, Corine McGuire. She’s so committed, her mother explained, she comes in early each morning to roast the [...]

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, [...]

“This meat is so juicy it soaked through the plate!” I said. And it had. I needed a new paper plate. I hardly noticed. The meat was bursting with juice and fine smoky flavor. I loved it! Welcome back, Knotty Pine! Call it the Year of the Phoenix. It’s been a grand year for revivals, [...]

“I should have grabbed more of the carnitas!” I said. It’s not that I was hungry. By then I had devoured most of an epic banquet of some of the best and most authentic Mexican food I’ve found in Tulsa. But those carnitas were so good! Now I wish I could boast that those delicious [...]

All around me truckers in overalls were digging in to huge plates of chicken-fried steak or ham and eggs. Me, I was eating lamb’s eyes, brain, tongue and feet all mixed together in a bracing, vibrant Persian soup called Kale Pache. I never thought I’d find a panoply of Iranian taste treats in a homey [...]

We invite you to Celebrate Beaujolais on November 15, 2012 at Foundations Restaurant at Platt College. Planned to coincide with the 2012 release of Beaujolais nouveau, this event will explore all that the region has to offer: all levels of Beaujolais wine (including 4 crus!), hors d’oeuvres and small plates designed to highlight the wine [...]

It’s not often that a new lunch spot opens quietly under the radar in Tulsa. Normally, by the time opening day hits, I’m almost sick already of the hype. But when a friend mentioned that we try Foolish Things café for lunch this week, my response was a quizzical look. Tucked neatly away at the [...]

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 [...]

Drive through the north-east side of Downtown Tulsa past Peoria, take a right on Trenton, just before Utica. You’ll come to a place where residential meets industrial and the sunsets are still huge. Boom! You’re there. El Rio Verde. Go on and pull up to their dirt parking lot, order your food, and feel free [...]

You’ll like Lee Brennan. I do. He’s a big guy with a big grin, the owner of Tulsa’s newest hangout, the Rusty Crane. He’s grinning because he’s living his childhood dream. I first met Lee on a sultry August afternoon at the end of the summer’s biggest heat wave. I went there to interview him [...]

Seeing a little teaser of a menu online and some pictures here and there of the decor really peaked my interests of “The Rusty Crane.” At first, I wasn’t sure how it was going to play out. Update after update on Facebook really showed they were excited to bring Tulsa a new experience in food [...]

Good simple seafood dishes with a touch of Cajun flair served in a bright festive atmosphere. That’s what you’ll find at S & J. But first you have to find it. You walk west on First Street, which fifty years before was known, with good reason, as Tulsa’s skid row. Things have changed of course, [...]

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 [...]

Last weekend was packed with options and exciting ways to spend time and money supporting small local businesses. A friend and I planned our Saturday carefully: lunch at the festival, then down to the Brady district for the Indie Emporium, followed by drinks/dessert somewhere nearby if time permitted before 4pm, when we both needed to [...]

I never expected Five Guys to be good. But it was. Very very good. I should have known. Brian McCullough went up to Kansas City three weeks ago to get a jump on everybody before the Tulsa Five Guys opened, and did a great review of the Five Guys there. “Amazing” was how he described [...]

It’s Oktoberfest in Munich now. The worlds largest fair. Beer poured by the barrels, millions of sausages, and tons of pretzels are consumed each year at this grand fest. German beer is the real deal. Barley, hops, water, and yeast. All you need to produce wonderful beer. German cuisine is the real deal too. It’s [...]

Tulsa State Fair Kicks off TODAY! If you are a fair food junky like me you will be getting high on fried foods at the Tulsa State Fair. Yes folks, this is that once a year time where diets and standards of health should be thrown out the window. So join me in making a [...]

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 [...]

Ricardo’s is not the kind of place I normally like. It’s a Mexican restaurant without any Mexicans. (There might be some in the kitchen I didn’t see, but I think not.) It was owned by a guy named Richard Hunt, who named it Ricardo’s rather than Richard’s to sound more authentic. You won’t find any [...]

You carefully put on your custom, Italian-made suit. Cinch up your pin-stripe tie. Shine your shoes. Place your fedora on your head. You walk up to the mirror. You are Don Draper. Your wife, Megan Draper, is just getting ready in the other room. Let’s change it up a bit. Maybe you’re Joan Harris and [...]

This month the Tulsa Air and Space Museum at 3624 N. 74th East Ave is hosting Tulsa’s first Food Truck Festival. The festival is a sign of the growing scene of mobile food in Tulsa. To read about the growing food truck culture in Tulsa check out the article links below this picture. Event Details: September [...]

“I always want to push the envelope,” said Marcus. “I could do it only some of the time at the Brasserie because I had to give Tim and the customers what they wanted, but here I can do it all the time.” It’s hard to imagine anything being better than Marcus Vause’s cooking at the [...]