BBQ restaurants in Tulsa are like Quik Trips – there is literally one around every corner.  From chains like Rib Crib, to the smaller mom and pop joint like Elmer’s, a great reputation is tough to achieve with so much competition around.  So, along comes Back Alley Blues & BBQ with their own brand of [...]

  Charlie Mitchell knows soccer.  Charlie Mitchell knows Tulsa.  You know, like Bo knows.  That said Charlie Mitchell combined this knowledge with his love for food and brought Scottish American Modern Pub fare back to Tulsa.  Mitchell is back after closing down his last restaurant in 1995.  Before that he had been in the restaurant business since [...]

SMOKE on Cherry Street has been on my radar ever since they took over the vacant building which once was the Bourbon St. Cafe.  While it lay vacant with a for sale banner I pondered what it would become.  My first thought was a bar, or better yet a restaurant.  The folks at SMOKE took both [...]

Duke’s Southern Kitchen sprouted up next to the Spirit Bank Event Center last month as a fresh new country-cookin’ restaurant.  Around this time my wife showed me an article from Tulsa World which examined Chef Justin Thompson’s cast-iron skillet style of creating great fried chicken.  For those of you who don’t know, Justin Thompson is the executive [...]

This weekend my husband and I ventured to Catoosa to stop in at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for some food and fun!  We typically gamble at the Riverspirit Casino because it’s closer to home but when it comes to dining out the selection at the Hard Rock seems so much better.  We love, [...]

Elmer’s has been proudly serving Tulsa for over 20 years.  Elmer’s doesn’t provide our town with Italian, Mexican, or even standard American food – Elmer’s is all about barbeque, and it just so happens that the food this region is most critical about is their barbeque.  I am relatively new to the area, but I like to think I [...]