Rendezvous Pizza in Bricktown opened on June 1, bringing Detroit Pizza to OKC’s entertainment district. Owned by Bricktown Brewery Restaurants, Rendezvous is located adjacent (west) to the Bricktown Brewery on Sheridan. Featuring Detroit and New York-style pizzas, wings, and…
Venn Pizza on Britton officially opens today. Located in the stretch of Old Britton, the main street of the Britton municipality absorbed into OKC in 1950, Venn has a focused menu featuring pizza, wings, a few appetizers, and salads.…
When State Question 792 passed in 2016, thereby reforming Oklahoma’s alcohol laws, one of the most popular changes to the law concerned happy hours. Prior to 792, establishments could only offer happy hour specials if they ran for seven…
Maggie’s Farm Hidden Harbor Rum was awarded “Best Rum” at the 2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the most prestigious awards in the industry. A collaboration between Pittsburgh’s Maggie’s Farm Rum Distillery and Hidden Harbor, a tiki bar that…
The popular Japanese sando pop-up Sandoitchi is coming to Oklahoma City. Based in Dallas, Sandoitchi (Japanese for “sandwich”) will operate out of the former Tori Tori building in the Plaza District. The concept focuses on the traditional Japanese sandwich,…
Enis Mullaliu arrived in the U.S. in 2000, a refugee from the Kosovo War. He and his family had sought asylum in the U.K., and eventually – with the help of Catholic Charities – made their way to Edmond,…
Success can be a little difficult to measure sometimes. “I won an art contest when I was in second grade, but how well can you really draw in second grade?” Steven Paul Judd asked, rhetorically. “Maybe my mom knew the…
The beautiful, 5,700-acre lake just outside Ardmore is situated in Lake Murray State Park – Oklahoma’s largest – and its clear water makes it ideal for a day at the beach. What to do There are several…
Broken Bow Lake and Lower Mountain Fork River Beavers Bend State Park is home to Broken Bow Lake and portions of the Mountain Fork River. An established destination for campers and boaters for decades, the area has also become…
Sonic Hard Seltzers arrived in Oklahoma retail and liquor stores with very little fanfare and a massive amount of anticipation on May 17, one day ahead of the scheduled launch date. Stores struggled to meet demand immediately, with liquor…
Memorial Day weekend will see final service at the Brewers Union. Conceived and opened by Brad Stumph, the Union has been housed in the former Mustang Brewing facility on N. Meridian Ave. since September 2017. Stumph has billed it…
Scratch Kitchen and Cocktails-Paseo has new operating partners. Brady Sexton opened the OKC location in February 2018 in the newly completed Pueblo development – also home to Oso. After a couple shifts in personnel, including the departure of Chef…
Eat out often enough and even your favorite place or meal can start to feel a little tired. Still, no one wants to give up brunch, so we’ve got 10 dishes to spice up your brunch experience, and a…
The ideal sous chef is someone who doesn’t complain, works well at volume, is more dependable than the line cooks and gets paid much less than the executive chef or chef de cuisine. Ask anyone who used to be…
Governor Stitt signed the Oklahoma Cocktails To Go Act of 2021 on May 7. Originally HB 2122, the bill written by Rep. Marcus McEntire (R - Duncan) makes it legal for licensed establishments to sell pre-mixed cocktails or single-serve…
Julia McLish at Barkeep has a spring cocktail menu built around base fruit flavors, and to help them stand out, she's incorporated a few of the more interesting, new-ish spirits and mixers available in the state right now. The…
At least once in your life you’ve eaten so many chips with salsa that when your food arrived, you asked for the box right away, or maybe after a bite or two. The baskets of chips and bowls of…
Yes, you should do nice things for mom year-round, and you definitely shouldn’t wait ‘til Mother’s Day to tell her how awesome she is, but on Mother’s Day you get a chance to really shine, and even outdo your…
Wander Folk is the new name of the Guthrie-based distillery that was formerly called Prairie Wolf. The company will keep one product – a liter bottle of vodka – under the Prairie Wolf name, but the new Wander Folk…
Jack McBride’s name – for those who know it – is usually associated with So6ix magazine, but at some point this year, most Oklahoma City locavores are going to associate the name with ELO Delivery (pronounced eelow, not E-L-O)…
The beauty of a cookie – other than its taste – is that it’s often the perfect size to satisfy a craving for sweets at the end of a meal or in the middle of the day. Yes, some…
When the history of a salsa brand includes the line “Testing the results of his efforts on his golfing buddies…” there may be a bit of an authenticity issue. David Pace’s creation wasn’t really authentic in the strictest sense,…
A few dozen Oklahoma brewers gathered at Lively Beerworks on Wednesday, April 7 – National Beer Day – to work collaboratively on Brewers Reunion, a New England style IPA that will arrive in craft breweries around the state May…
For my maternal grandmother, it was sweet tea; for her neighbor, beer. They lived next door to each other in Bowlegs, Oklahoma, and to escape the heat inside the house – whether from cooking or late-afternoon sun – they’d…
