The Tulsa Food Blog

A narrow upward-sloping path, the sun blazing down. The path is white and dusty, everything is white with heat-wave shimmer, the sun is fierce. There’s a scent of thyme in the air from Mount Hymettus, and the constant whirr of cicadas. You reach the top of the hill and gleaming white columns sparkle against the [...]

The Junkyard Dawg opened a little while ago and peaked my curiosity immediately.  I’m a massive hot dog (which I will be spelling dawg from now on) lover and am always interested in trying new places that serve them.  Always on the lookout for the perfect dawg.  Well driving home one day I noticed the [...]

Sit at the elegant wood-paneled bar at Fleming’s any night before seven and look out over a sea of diners eating delicious appetizers for which they’ll pay between $12.50 and $15 each. You, savvy customer, because you’re sitting at the bar and arrived before 7, are eating the exact same appetizers for six dollars a [...]

It’s Friday at noon. You’re tired, looking forward to the weekend, and what’s that sound? A hungry stomach, that’s what! You’ve hit all the usual spots and you are looking for something tasty and affordable. Click the image below to Join the Facebook Event page: Well, if you don’t mind my asking, what’s more affordable [...]

If you’ve a hankering for hot dogs and you’re thinking of flying to New York to try the best, save yourself the price of a plane ticket and head on over to 15th St. On a deserted stretch of road just west of Peoria you’ll find a garden supply store called Grumpy’s Garden, and if [...]

It was mid-week, and we were looking for a filling but reasonably priced lunch. A few miles away was Stadium Subs & Cream, and we have been hearing about this $5 Lunch Special. For $5 you can get any 6″ Sub, Choice of Chips or a Small Ice Cream and a 20 oz. Drink. Hard [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could find a chain restaurant that wasn’t a chain? It would have the same kind of casual fun food as your average T.G.I. Friday’s but the menu wouldn’t be designed by a bunch of cost-cutters in suits sitting in a corner office in Chicago and the food wouldn’t be [...]

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 [...]

I’ve never much liked the term “comfort food” but if you had to use it just once in your life, you’d probably use it about the food at Nelson’s Ranch House. When Dorothy was lounging in the Wizard of Oz’s fancy palace and all she could think of was going home, it might have been [...]

Rick’s Café is still going strong. Back in the ’70s, when Tulsa was booming, Rick Kamp was the only chef in town. Oh, I should qualify that, because there was great cooking being done in rural farmhouses, meals with vegetables straight off the vine that would make any New Yorker drool with envy. But if [...]

Today for once I was in the mood for a chicken sandwich, but I couldn’t just have any chicken sandwich…I had to have something unique. I knew I was going to be cooking up some burgers on the Barby tonight, so I wanted to balance out my day with a little white meat for lunch. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There has been some news floating around in a local daily newspaper stating that Fire Rock Grill at 71st & Memorial was closed.  We just got back from lunch at Fire Rock and let me tell you that it was delicious and certainly not closed.  If you read anything stating that Fire Rock is closed, [...]

If Stonehorse Market opened in New York City, there’d be lines around the block, all day, every day, people waiting, clamoring, begging to get in. It reminds me of Christina Rossetti’s haunting, powerful poem of love and addiction, Goblin Market. People who have tasted fruit from the goblin store pine and pine away, dwindle and [...]

Corner Cafe might not be the ideal Valentine’s Day date. however, if you are looking for a bit of an adventure and an awesome chicken fried steak on Tulsa’s stretch of Route 66…this is your spot. For some, walking into Corner Cafe will give you a feeling that will make you want to walk out [...]

Wine isn’t only fun with haute cuisine and fancily prepared dishes. Wine is as versatile as beer when it comes to pairing with what we think as quintessentially American food like burgers and fries, barbecue, and yes even chicken fried steak. One of my own personal food and wine pairing favorites is actually a great [...]

I first fell in love with Lucky’s ten years before it opened. Appropriately enough, it was on Valentine’s Day. My mom had been sick, but she rallied, and I wanted to take her to dinner. The only place that wasn’t fully booked was a restaurant I’d never heard of. Grille 51, in a building at [...]

I never really expect to find a hidden treasure inside of a grocery store, but my perception changed this past week when I got invited to a business meeting in a very unusual place. When I first got the phone call to have a lunch meeting at Reasor’s grocery store in Jenks I thought to [...]

I had a great lunch with my buddy Ryan yesterday. Whenever Ryan and I go out to lunch we always like to grab a good burger and naturally, he leaves it up to me to find the best spots in Tulsa for us to meet. Since yesterday was a Monday, Hanks, Claud’s and many of [...]

Recently, after being out with the swine flu, I decided to follow the old adage and seek a cure by finding the hair of the dog that bit me, or in this case pig (admittedly, I should have sought out the gentleman who was next to me on that flight from Dallas to New York [...]