The Tulsa Food Blog

If you love BBQ, there is only one place that you need to be on the weekend of September 16-19. Mark your calendars, because this is an event that you do not want to miss. Some of the best Pit-masters/Rib Cookers around the nation will be coming to Downtown Tulsa, OK for the Rib Crib’s [...]

Here is your opportunity for a full steak dinner for $20 cooked by some of Oklahoma’s finest. The Oklahoma Championship Steak Cook-off and Car Show will be held Saturday August 28, 2010 in beautiful downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma (501 S. Cincinnati). Over 50 teams from across the Midwest will be competing this year, and you are [...]

Being a couple who live, work, and play typically in South Tulsa, it’s always a nice treat to find ourselves downtown for a meeting or event, especially during a mealtime. Typically, we endulge with an evening meal, but occasionally lunch offers new opportunities to try something in downtown. Due to it’s business nature, there is [...]

“The pork belly ramen at the relaunched Yokozuna … this is the stuff of LEGEND!” That was the first text, and it was from someone I trusted. Two more texts like that, and I was on my way to Yokozuna. That part of town looks like an Edward Hopper painting. We bravely marched up to [...]

If you’ve been reading this blog, you’re no stranger to Elote Cafe. There have been several reviews and everyone loves it. All their food comes straight from local farmers. Now I’m a huge fan of local farmers. There’s nothing finer than corn or tomatoes fresh off the vine. And so I expected to be blown [...]

The burger I’ve been hooked on at Billy’s since opening has been their Theta Burger. For those not from Oklahoma, a Theta burger is a burger topped with mayo, pickles, shredded cheddar cheese, and a hickory bbq sauce. These items in combination make an amazing burger. Billy’s version of the Theta keeps it classic with [...]

Anthony Bourdain, the internationally acclaimed chef, author, and host of Travel Channel’s “No Reservations,” has been dubbed “the bad boy of cuisine” for his rock star looks and blunt observations about the world of restaurants, chefs, and cooking. He will be appearing at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 12th at 8:00pm. Tickets are $35.50 and $45.50 and can be purchased at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Box Office, by phone at (918) 596-7111, all area Reasor’s stores, or online at myticketoffice.com. A limited number of VIP tickets have sold-out. Tickets are on-sale now.

Elote Café and Catering prepare delicious, fresh, organic Mexican food for people in Tulsa and the surrounding area. They are also environmental trend setters. We’ve met them before when they opened Elote Café and Catering in May 2008. They recycle glass, aluminum, plastic and cardboard with local recyclers “Recycling Revolution.” They support local family farms, [...]

50 cent wings, $1 High-Life, great pizza and a wide open stage make the perfect setting for an “Open Mic Night” at Joe Momma’s pizza. That’s what you’ll find every Monday night at 9 p.m. at this popular downtown pizza joint. We decided to check out some local spots for Open Mic Night for my [...]

Yokozuna paired with Girouard Vines in Tulsa to provide the wines. They will be introducing their newest wine (Chardonnay) at this event. This 4-course dinner will be incorporating as many locally sourced products as possible.

In my opinion, May is a perfect time for everything. Being one of my favorite times of the year regardless of the amount of rain we sometimes get in May, this month makes me want to get out more than I have ever gotten out before. I consider spring a for-sure eating season, or should [...]

Back in the day when Tulsa was oil capital of the world, anyone who even dreamed of being anyone stayed at the Mayo Hotel. John F. Kennedy, Katherine Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Wayne, Mae West, all that gilded long-gone elite. Pretty Boy Floyd never stayed [...]

Cinco De Mayo is here (Tomorrow, May 5th) and we want to help you participate by either partying hard or visiting one of Tulsa’s many Mexican restaurants. When it comes to Mexican food, Tulsa definitely has a long list of establishments that will feed anyone’s perception of good Mexican food. Check out the list below [...]

So many treasures lie in this wonderful city. Topeca Coffee is one of them. Have you heard of the slogan “Seed-to-Cup”? Well we decided to see what this was all about. John and Margarita Gaberino, owners of Topeca Coffee took us on a tour of the Roastery that lies in Downtown Tulsa. While telling us [...]

Having frequented Daily Grill multiples times with each experience being very good, I was looking forward to sampling their Black and Bleu Burger that was on their online menu which stated being stuffed, yeah stuffed, with Bleu Cheese and cracked black pepper and topped with a Bleu Cheese Mayo and served with their amazing Onion [...]

That big flat kind of burger you used to see a lot of in Tulsa can be a work of art. I remember going to the 15th Street branch of Ron’s when Ron Baber himself was working and watch him cook my burger with the grace of a ballerina. The restaurant looked like a cowshed [...]

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 [...]

I have mixed feelings about Boulder Grill, that shiny sleek restaurant that just opened downtown at the Holiday Inn. You can get a very good meal if you order the right dishes. And if you go in late afternoon, it’s one of Tulsa’s great bargains. The decor is carefully thought out and ultramodern. You can [...]

At my house, the countdown usually starts around late February. The holidays are long over, we’re sick of the cold dreary weather; and we’re ready for the days when the pool is open and the gardens are growing an abundance of delicious herbs and veggies destined for my kitchen. This is the time when I [...]

The New Atlas Grill is located in the beautiful nationally registered art deco 12 floor Atlas Life Building, built in 1922. The Atlas Life Coffee Shop operated since its opening but went by the way side over the years. In the mid 1990’s Matt and Brooke Kelly (who now own and operate Lucky’s Restaurant) opened [...]

Here is a quick update on what’s happening at McNellie’s and our other establishments in the Blue Dome District. Cheers, Elliot Half for Haiti Fundraiser I would like to thank everybody who came to McNellie’s Tulsa, McNellie’s OKC, El Guapo’s and Yokozuna on January 26th to take part in our Half for Haiti fundraiser. As [...]

Valentine’s Day is a special time to really show what you are made of to your spouse. This year we are really challenging you to go above and beyond to express one thing…that’s Love. We know that Tulsa isn’t the city of love, however, there are many locally owned romantic restaurants that are sure to [...]