The Oklahoma State Fair wine competition doesn’t often draw the attention it deserves, especially when the winners are local wines. That unfortunate situation is about to change, thanks to the good work of Steve Sneed and his Sabatia (suh BAH…
Dr. Jennifer Cox founded the Pier 34 Foundation after her brother Rob, who suffered from bipolar disorder, died at 34. “I realized I’d lost not only my best friend, but my pier in the water, the person I turned…
Squash bugs start appearing on farms during squash season; humans want squash year-round. Squash bugs are consumerists, of a sort, but they at least are aware of seasonality. Two factors have contributed to our collective loss of awareness regarding…
Unwind Café opened in Uptown 23rd on Saturday, Sept. 4, bringing a delicious brunch option to the Tower Theatre complex. Owners Kefren and Maria Arjona and chef-partner Mikel Pichs came to OKC from Miami, where the Cuban-American restaurateurs experimented with several…
Guadalupe “Lupe” Garcia grew up in and around the food business. The owner of the newly opened Trompudo’s Tacos (at SW 60th and May) is the son of Marcelino Garcia, the founder of the Chelino’s chain of local restaurants. Lupe Garcia…
The Hulsey Gallery at Oklahoma City University is currently hosting the works of a collective of printmakers from around the country. The third annual Connect: Collect and its companion show Print as Object are the creations of a trio of artists…
The Hamilton Supperette and Lounge should not have succeeded. That’s not a criticism, more an observation and summary of all the aggregated “conventional wisdom” lobbed in the direction of owners J. Mays and Chris Kana when they were…
It’s delicious anytime, obviously, but pie and coffee is breakfast. The movie trope of the diner with the pie case and the white ceramic mugs full of subpar coffee fleshes out something deeply true about our collective experience of…
“I think it’s a dated thing – like very 2018 – to say, ‘I’m a whiskey guy,’” said Will Groves, sales manager at Allegheny Distilling Company. “Customers are more open-minded now, and we’re seeing increases in every market where…
“We Believed in the Sun,” an installation featuring Oklahoma City artist Ebony Iman Dallas and Pennsylvania artist Ron Tarver will run through Sept. 20 at arts center Oklahoma Contemporary, 11 NW 11th St. Curated by Christina Beatty and Pablo Barrera, the…
Skywalker wines are finally in Oklahoma! Odds are good that most people didn’t know that George Lucas is also in the wine business, but for the Jedi order of Star Wars fans—those cognoscenti of all things Lucasfilm—the desire for…
Zach Edge grew up in Norman, but his family’s southeast Texas roots shaped his palate and inspired his love for central Texas barbecue. The owner and pitmaster of the newly opened Edge Craft Barbecue at 1920 Linwood in the Ironworks District…
Cocktails-to-go are now legal in Oklahoma. The provisions of HB 2122 went into effect after midnight last night, meaning bars and restaurants in the state can sell to-go cocktails to customers under certain conditions. The law specifically provides for the sale…
Sad news: Barrios has taken its phenomenal mushroom tamales off the menu. On the bright side, once we heard, we went looking for more great options around the metro. Introduced to American diners by San Antonio’s famous Chili Queens…
The official and legal start date for Oklahoma’s new cocktails-to-go law is Wednesday, Aug. 25. While the general public has been excited about the change, restaurants -- still reeling from COVID issues as the delta variant marches across the…
It’s best to admit right up front that the term “salad” is too vague to be useful if we’re looking for prescriptive definitions, as in what exactly does and doesn’t go in one. Greens and dressing can be a…
Denilson Mazariegos walked into Ned’s Starlite Lounge in September 2018 and said, “I want a job.” “We were about two and a half weeks from opening,” Ned Shadid, Jr., said. “I told him, ‘Everyone wants a job.’” As it…
Summer beers, ideally speaking, are lighter in style, easier to drink and refreshing. Summer isn’t the time to challenge our taste buds with Bourbon barrels and smoke, after all. We’ve collected some of the beers we’ll be drinking this…
Gordon Ramsay aside, the UK isn’t necessarily famous for its cuisine, and a long-running stereotype (the French are probably at least partially to blame) is that its food is just bland and uninteresting. In fact, Ramsay’s home country of…
Some of his earliest and best memories are of exploring junk shops and antique stores – highbrow and low – with his grandmother. “She taught me the value of craftsmanship, the love of older things,” said Chip Fudge. It’s…
Even as the hospitality industry struggles to maintain adequate staffing levels in bars and restaurants, plans are going forward for new bars, breweries and restaurants. The metro will see several concepts opening between now and the end of the…
Sergio Gil came to Oklahoma on vacation in 1985. “She brought me,” he says, gesturing at Eva, his wife of 40 years and mother of their five children. “She brought me back in 1988, and my father-in-law said I…
Bartenders and servers already celebrate a couple of holidays that people outside the industry don’t in any great number – especially Prohibition Repeal Day – but they probably should add Mariano Martinez’s birthday. He’s the innovator who converted a slurpee…
The simplicity of the classic margarita is such that, in theory, any decent bar can make one, and good bars can zhuzh them up with premium ingredients or spirit variations such as Mezcal. With only three required ingredients –…
