Tulsa Food

I’ve passed that squat ocher building many times without even a glance. It’s easy to do; the outside is the essence of nondescript. If I’d been more observant I’d have noticed that there are always a lot of cars parked outside. People know they can find good food there. Last night, thanks to a tip [...]

Think about restaurants, think about Tex-Mex, and you’ll probably get an image of a lazy, cheerful little cantina with sombreros on lollipop-colored walls, indifferent food and service, and killer margaritas. Walk through the sculpted cast-iron doors of Mi Cocina, and those images will be forever dispelled. Mi Cocina, the first branch outside Texas of an [...]

Judging by the number of Mexican restaurants in Tulsa I would have to say it might be one of Tulsa’s favorite types of foods. Maybe it’s the ability to share flavorful food with a friend that makes this food so great. It may seem hard to differentiate between the many Mexican restaurants around, but Tres [...]

Cinco De Mayo is around the corner and we want to help you celebrate next week with style and taste. With four Tulsa-area locations, Compadres Mexican Grill is a local haven for great Mexican food and drinks with a kid-friendly environment, accommodations for large crowds, quick seating, bar seating with big screens to catch a [...]

Fly over Brookside by night and it’s a glittering string of diamonds. But head south of the Interstate and all the glitter’s gone. Forlorn, half-abandoned strip malls huddle by the road, and in one of them you’ll find Casa Frida. Step through the door, though, and you’re in another world. A tropical beach world of [...]

That’s right from around 5 bucks per meal you can dine-out everyday of the week! From Asian and Mexican to hamburgers and pizza, plus lets not forget all the wonderful places around town to grab half price happy hour appetizers such as KEO and The Brook. Many of the restaurants listed below have a special [...]

Some people ask me how I get around to so many random restaurants. My secret…. I often find myself randomly driving around Tulsa looking for a cure to a void in my life at that moment. Hungry! I don’t mind driving for 20 – 30 minutes before I find something that looks good. Last week [...]

I’ve never been to the original branch of La Flama on 61st Street, but I think I’m the only one. It’s a small, homey place that serves simple, rigorously authentic Mexican food to recent immigrants eager for a taste of home. You can see the owner smiling, and from what I hear he’s not just [...]

When someone asks me about Mexican food in general, it’s easy for me to get really specific about what it is that I like. When I think Mexican food, the only thing that comes to my mind are the dozen or so times I have kicked back on a beach in Baja with a taco [...]

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 [...]

El Rio Verde is one of those places that seems like it’s been there forever. I don’t remember how I first discovered it. I used to wander quite a bit around that part of the Northside, so I might have come across it in one of my explorations. But its location is so obscure and [...]

Tres Leches (Three Milk ) Cake has become a weakness in my life. I have tried many versions but my favorite is the first one that I tried several years back. None of that strawberry filling stuff, just great dense sweet cake and sweeter milk. It is the made by the folks at Pancho Anaya. [...]

When you walk into the new Senor Tequila in south Tulsa, it’s like walking into a restaurant in sunny Mexico. The colors are bright and inviting, and you are whisked away to enjoy an authentic Mexican meal. Owners Carlos and Elisha Atilano chose the Plaza del Sol Shopping Center at 101st and Mingo Road for [...]

Deals Digest – Celebrate Cinco De Mayo! The tent will be open at noon and will close around 1am. Hosty Duo will hit the stage around 8pm – El Guapo’s Cantina, located in the heart of downtown at the corner of 1st and Elgin is Tulsa’s only full-service restaurant with a roof top cantina.

We recently received a few bags of Beanitos chips in the mail from our buddy Jeff. (Anyone who sends me free food is a buddy of mine). Jeff told us that Beanitos are awesome for dipping. Just like normal chips but much healthier and tasty at that. I immediately knew what I wanted to do [...]

It’s 4 am on Saturday morning and you are starving. I am not going to ask why you are up or what you were/are doing but still you are hungry. You don’t want to eat at the normal fast food place but you don’t want to go in somewhere because, face it, no one looks [...]

Since I first started reading Tulsa Food, I been wanting to contribute. Now that I finally have a phone with a decent camera in it, I intend to introduce people to the places that I frequent. I live on the north east side of town. It seems to be an area that gets little attention [...]

Having lived in Tulsa for more than a quarter century, I’ve had my share of meals that by most accounts would fall into the Mexican food genre. Set down in front of me on technicolor Fiestaware has been everything from the cheese-doused, deep-fried chimichanga filled with Rotel and composite chicken to handmade tamales I had [...]

While I was out running errands with a friend the other day downtown, we decided to give the Mexicali Border Café a shot. I have driven past the one on the Southside nearly every day, but had yet to try it. So when I saw the other location, in the historic Brady district, I knew [...]

For Restaurant Week 2010 Click here Eat at Tulsa’s Best for Less During Restaurant Week 2010 Here is some exciting news!!! Tulsa’s Annual Restaurant Week befitting the Community Food Bank is Sept 13th-19th. Sadly, according to the USDA, “Oklahoma is the eighth hungriest state in the nation and number seven in food insecurity, which means [...]

Elote is simply Mexican grilled corn, unless you live in Tulsa.  In Tulsa the name Elote means fresh, local, free range chicken, grain fed beef, local ingredients, atmosphere and quality.  Libby Auld has created a restaurant where one can feel good about eating out. A friend took me to Elote three weeks ago.  I have [...]

It took me a long time to stop in at Ted’s Cafe Escondido in Broken Arrow because every time I went by it was packed; Now I know why. First of all, the decor is very nice and clean. But the part that really stands out to me is the staff. I am so used [...]