Tulsa Food

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s easy to overlook Tim Inman, and that’s always a mistake. Lately I’ve been enraptured by the newcomers, that recent amazing influx of great new chefs (Ian van Anglen, Marcus Vause, Erik Reynolds etc) and sometimes I forget that one of the greatest of all first started cooking in Tulsa in 1986. In that year, [...]

Fusion, Pacific Rim — those are culinary buzzwords (more so in the late 1990s than now) but most places get them wrong. The Tropical gets it right. Fusion means a marriage of Asian and American ingredients and cooking techniques, but all too often the vibrant, exciting flavors of the East are dumbed down in the [...]

“Please delete those photos or I’ll lose my job!” Osage Casino has a strict no photos rule. If I had the photos I took of the lavish buffet spread, I could write a fine long review. But she seemed a nice lady — in fact all the staff were kind and helpful — and I [...]

1988. President Reagan was sending aid to our allies, including a young man named Osama bin Laden, to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. If you had a great time at the bar and wanted to share it, you’d snap some photos, rush to the store to have the film developed, and then run to [...]

Over the years we have collected a massive amount of food photos from around Tulsa. This got us thinking what good are these pictures if we are not constantly sharing them. So here you have it.  We want to start sharing our collection of food pics with you every Monday.  Hopefully we can help spice [...]

I think the Brasserie is one of the finest restaurants in Tulsa. Certainly, it’s one of the nicest dining spaces. Sneak around the corner from Peoria, walk through the paneled door, and you’re suddenly transported to a fantasy evocation of a bistro in Paris, complete with leather-backed banquettes and mirrors misted over by time. It’s [...]

I hadn’t been back to Mi Tierra since I wrote my review last July. Until last night. I took some of my friends for Valentine’s Day and we were greeted with a lovely new dining room, decorated for the night with hearts and flowers. The old dining area, with tables scattered among shelves full of [...]

White River is the kind of place you hope to find when you visit an old East Coast seaport, and never do. It’s the kind of place you might have run into in 1940s New York, but probably wouldn’t. Bare, with stripped-down decor, and very crowded, it’s the kind of place that shouts “serious eating [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes good is good enough. If you want the best fried catfish you can imagine, make the drive to Bixby and head for Lazy Fisherman (Review). For the best Cajun food, go to Lafayette, Louisiana or to Chicory & Chives (Review), it’s up to you. But if you’re cruising around the superstore zone at 71st [...]

Some time before the year 1300, groups of tribal farmers from Yunnan in southwest China drifted down into the virgin untilled lands just east of Burma. They called themselves Thai and the land became Thailand. We were sitting in the tiny, cozy dining room of My Thai restaurant and I was trying to impress my [...]

“You ARE Restaurant Week Top Chef!” If Tulsa were televised, that’s what the crew at Bodean Seafood Restaurant would be hearing just about now. And so, though it’s usually unfair to judge a restaurant based on their Restaurant Week $13 lunch, I think what I ate today gives a good idea of what you’ll get [...]

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 [...]

Wine of the Week – Joel Gott, California, 2009 Sauvignon Blanc Now is the perfect time for Sauvignon Blanc. The grapes naturally high and racy acidity make it great for an refreshing aperitif, as well as one of the best food wines you can come across. The Joel Gott is perfect for a goats cheese [...]

Now if you’re even a casual reader of Tulsa Food, you’re bound to have read a lot about Chicory & Chives, that country and Cajun luncheonette over on the West Side. So I’ll just weigh in on one thing and one thing only: their roux. From what I know about Cajun food, it involves this. [...]

Finally, an authentic Chinese restaurant in Tulsa. People sometimes ask me what I miss most about New York. They expect me to say the crowds, or the theatres, or the boundless wave-tossed sea. I always answer, Chinese restaurants. Entering a Chinese restaurant in New York, whether it’s hidden in an alley in the depths of [...]

For four years I was in a shopping coma. Each week I drove to the nearest grocery store and wandered the aisles, filling my shopping cart with the same items as the week before. Milk, yogurt, iceberg, ground turkey log, etc. Boring. Then I started the Global Table project. In just over a month I [...]

As anyone who has read my former columns must have ascertained by now I believe food and wine create an essential synergy when enjoyed together. The perfect example was a couple of nights ago as I sat in front of a roaring fire warming a bottle of Washington State Cabernet that was resting in my [...]

With Oktoberfest and Halloween with the kids coming up, this might be the last weekend to get a nice romantic dinner in. Brian and I had the chance to visit Bodean Seafood Restaurant and Fish Market. Wow. I cannot believe this beautiful gem is tucked away in South Tulsa. This is definitely a fine-dining restaurant [...]

I had never tried Jamaican food before, so Hibiscus was a new experience! I love the Jamaican culture, and sure enough, the restaurant resembled this culture to a T.  Dim lighting, very chill reggae music, warm colors, comfortable atmosphere and friendly free-spirited staff were all present. We went on a Wednesday night which is “open [...]

The Korean Garden serves the only authentic Korean food in Tulsa and one of my favorite restaurants of any style. It is a small family owned restaurant, clean and simple with a very good menu. They serve a variety of bulgogi, soups, bi-bim-bap, roast fish, and stir fry all served with rice and multiple side [...]

You don’t have to necessarily love fish to indulge on a Baja style Pescada Taco like this!!! This Pescada Taco comes with everything I look for in a bomb fish taco. I found this taco at a famous Mexican restaurant in Downtown Palm Springs, California called La Casuelas. Now that I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma [...]

Just took my Daughter and her fiancé to dinner at Stone Mill Barbecue and Steak house and wow what a meal. If you have not tried this place you need to; the Barbecue was great and so were the steaks ( I sample some of every kind), oh and HOME MADE deserts, pies, cobblers. I [...]

– This business is closed, but enjoy this review! — Jazmo’z Bourbon Street Cafe on 15th Street in Tulsa has it! As soon as I started looking over the menu I knew it was going to be a hard decision to make, everything looked so good. Then as soon as my boyfriend said Crab Cake [...]