Guess who’s coming to Tulsa! Anthony Bourdain – the world renowned chef, author, and host of Travel Channel’s No Reservations. The intimate night of the chef’s delicious musings will be sure to please as he discusses his eclectic adventures, cultural experiences and more. Bourdain is known for his incredible culinary talents, exotic travels, explicit and sometimes brutal judgements, and for [...]
Hmong cuisine is a combination of flavors and influences from Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Burma. It’s a melting pot of Southeast Asian ingredients such as hot peppers, cilantro, garlic, lime, lemongrass, fish sauce, mint, ginger and other spices and herbs. In fact, Hmong cuisine is known for its extensive use of fresh herbs – which I love! Every Spring [...]
Recently, Christine and I took a much needed vacation to the town in which we got married – Eureka Springs. This small town is filled with independently owned shops, boutiques, diversity, and most importantly, outstanding cuisine. My reflex as soon as we get to Eureka Springs is to run to a little hut of a funnel cake stand. I am [...]
I didn’t know I was in for a surprise when I went to Merritt’s Bakery this morning, I just knew I was going to get a tasty donut. Upon entering the bakery and picking my number I was about to resort to my routine of getting one of their cinnamon rolls. Instead, my eyes were drawn [...]
Gatsby’s Grill is a small restaurant attached to the North end of Gardner’s books located between 41st and 51st off of Mingo. The atmosphere is cozy; customers are nestled on an old-world style alcove with a view into the used book store. In keeping with the book theme, their menu has a lot of cute [...]
Located on Cherry Street, Lucky’s Restaurant is one of those places I always wanted to try but never actually made the leap to go there. After a long day at work I was not in the mood to drive far, so I made the three minute drive to Cherry Street and stopped in for dinner. [...]
My family and I recently checked out the new Osaka Steakhouse at 11016 East 81st Street for a tasty and entertaining meal. As with most Japanese table-side steakhouses, we got a huge meal and our chef kept us laughing and in awe of his shrimp tossing, fire making, onion volcano building skills. While we waited for [...]
I’ve been eyeing the taco stand that sits near my workplace on the corner of 41st and Garnett for quite some time now, eyeing it with wonder and apprehension at the same time, because unlike some bigger US cities, food stands have not been too prevalent around Tulsa. Until recently. These days there are taco [...]
Recently a coworker of mine raved about how great Redrock Canyon Grill is. He mentioned that he liked it so much he went there for his birthday and tried one of their signature rotisserie chickens. This peaked my interest and I thought even though it’s quite the drive away from where I reside in Midtown [...]