Tulsa Food

I first visited Smoke on a blustery winter’s night in late December 2010. It was opening night, coming hard on the heels of a blizzard that just about shut the city down, and yet the cooking was just about perfect. So was the service (and it still is). I wrote a rave review and, though [...]

Los Unicos isn’t a fancy place. There is no A/C. There is no silverware, plateware, or glass. No reusable napkins. No waiter. Heck, there isn’t really even an inside environment to relax, minus a couple of stools in a breezeway. It’s a structure that holds a kitchen. A friendly cook or two inside that kitchen. [...]

Acclaimed burger joint Five Guys has moved into Tulsa with its first location NOW OPEN at about 96th and Riverside. The location pictured below is 9635 Riverside Parkway and is open for burgers as of today, September 3rd at 11am. Five Guys is a franchised fast casual burger restaurant out of Virginia with locations all [...]

Until about a week ago, if you wanted great barbecue in Tulsa you’d have to leave the city. You’d head up north to Sperry and Donny Teel’s domain, or south to Broken Arrow to Oklahoma Joe’s. Or go to Northside, or make it an early meal and have lunch at Burn Co. Today, good barbecue [...]

Thai, Japanese, and Vietnamese are foods I adore. Packed with unique flavors and spices and generally with a touch of heat. But I have to admit that I don’t think I’ve ever tried Korean-style food. Odd. I have no recollection of ever eating a bite of bulgogi, yangnyum, bibimbob, etc. These dishes are quite foreign [...]

I can’t believe it’s almost OKTOBERFEST!! And that means all these Oktoberfest beers are arriving in Oklahoma. Non more important and tasty than from our very own Marshall Brewing Company. So, come to Fassler Hall for their “Oktoberfest” beer release party. Enjoy a delicious brew, some duck fat fries, and meet the guys that work [...]

Cruise down Sheridan and just past 21st Street you’ll see a tiny house with a lavish splash of color on the front. Inside that tiny house, huge platters of food await. It’s good food too, not the best Mexican in Tulsa by any means, but definitely a cut above average. You’ve seen the menu a [...]

Get ready to dine in the middle of downtown Tulsa for the 2012 Oklahoma Championship Steak Cook-off this Saturday. Sample food from dozens of grill master competitors while enjoying music, fancy show cars, a cool new kids zone all while grubbin a full on steak dinner. For more details and to buy tickets visit: http://oksteakcookoff.com/ [...]

See’s Candies is proud to announce the arrival of its first shop in Oklahoma. Located at Woodland Hills Mall in Tulsa, the shop’s grand opening celebrations will kick off with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 9:30 AM. Starting on Friday morning and throughout the weekend, See’s will give away an [...]

Play Show[powerpress url="http://www.okfoodie.com/wp-content/shows/OKFoodie_August_18_2012_Brasserie_closing.MP3"] This past weekend OKfoodie covered the last supper: Closing night at The Brasserie. Listen to the show by clicking play above. To join OKfoodie on set and be part of the live foodie audience click here for show tickets. This is one of the best dinner/date-night deals in Tulsa. This week, our [...]

“I’m obviously a meat & potatoes kind of girl.” I was ploughing through my Facebook and this post, written at Golden Corral, caught my eye. “When I finally sat down, I realized I had new potatoes, French fries & mashed potatoes! With roast, grilled chicken, bourbon chicken, orange chicken & steak. And tilapia. And corn. [...]

Tulsa Needs More Food Trucks Like The Waffle Lab in Ft. Collins, CO Tulsa needs more…..shops, restaurants, small biz, local support, etc. Tulsans need a better attitude. Quit going to Chili’s. Quit going to that crappy street known as “restaurant row”. You know what I’m talking about. There is nothing there. Well, there is something [...]

“I want to come here every week and eat these scallops! ” I declaimed — and declaimed is probably the right word, I was so excited by the stellar food that my voice could be heard across the restaurant. I was savoring the first course in a five course banquet at one of the best [...]

A tiny diner, delicious down-home cooking, everything made from scratch. You’d expect to find a lot of places like that in Tulsa, but I can’t think of any. Now, though, there’s one newly opened a few miles north of town. The story is a bit like “Grapes of Wrath” in reverse, with a happy ending. [...]

The Rusty Crane is just a few short weeks from opening. In looking past all of the details such as building codes, locations of outlets and where all of our conduit is being laid out, we are seeing the characteristics of our vision come into focus. It is amazing to see what has been in [...]

Once every few years, readers of the New York Times wake up to find a front-page headline announcing “A Four-Star is Born”. That’s the Times’ way of announcing that a new restaurant had joined the rarefied pantheon of five or six worthy of the top rating and therefore of worldwide acclaim. Based on one brief [...]

During the 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov, that cosmopolitan Russian emigre adrift in the wilds of upstate New York, had two passions: collecting rare butterflies and hunting down obscure, outre, compelling bits of Americana. I can’t begin to imagine his delight had he come upon that ruddy, squat yet soaring building by the river, not unlike the [...]

Royal Dragon offers a good though average Chinese buffet and some extraordinarily delicious a la carte items. I’m a bit late to the party. Royal Dragon’s been serving hungry Tulsans for 35 years. (The original owners, who ran it for over three decades, sold it a few years ago.) It was one of the first [...]

Every so often a restaurant owner will send me a mouth watering picture of a dish or two. I wish more would do this, because if they looked as good as this I would love to share them with the TulsaFood.com community and I would not be able to resist eating it! This week I [...]

A perfect spiral of soft dough, butter, cinnamon and icing. A buttery, sweet icing creation slightly crispy and spongy on the outsides making it equally delicious throughout. Weighing in at one half-pound, these famous cinnamon rolls will make you rethink what good is. What you may not know is that the famous cinnamon roll pictured [...]

Sometime in the late 1970s, a young man ran along the jungle trails of Laos, an assault rifle in one hand and a baby in the other, fleeing from the Pathet Lao. He crossed the Mekong by swinging on a vine and ended up in Thailand. A few years later, reunited with his wife, he [...]

Some of the finest food in Tulsa comes out of the kitchen of Doc’s Wine & Food on Brookside. It’s a busy busy kitchen as the dinner rush approaches, with one of my favorite chefs in the entire world, Ian van Anglen, grilling, sauteeing, assembling plates with balletic grace. I’ve been eating there at least [...]

The northeast corner of 81st and Yale will never be the same. That’s because the new Fresh Market is packing out the parking lot with anxious shoppers of this first in Oklahoma location. Fresh Market provides a unique grocery shopping experience that might seem similar to Whole Foods although its quite different… as it should [...]

Villa Ravenna Italian Restaurant will be having a Wine Dinner event July 9th 2012 including 10 especial meals and 12 selected wines with live music. The local Italian restaurant will be celebrating it’s 4th anniversary in Tulsa and everyone is invited. Reservation is required for more detail please email Sergio@villaravenna.com Want to read more about [...]

I’ve neglected Sonoma Bistro of late, but when I finally decided to review it the food was so good that I made two visits instead of one. The word “bistro” has for me associations of simple, unpretentious and welcoming, and that’s what I found. I usually think of bistros, at least in this country, as [...]

“The only sound at the table for the first few minutes is of forkwork and mastication and the slight gasping sounds of people trying to breathe while they eat. You rarely speak for the first few minutes here, eating.” (“Infinite Jest”, page 627) Perhaps the food in Desi Wok isn’t quite up to that level. [...]