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 [...]

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 [...]

Last night Tasty Tulsa decided to venture out and try something new – Fire Rock Grill & Bar.  I’m not a fan of the lines and crowds of “Restaurant Row” and actually just the Memorial area in general, so I was pleasantly surprised we were promptly seated upon arrival. As we were looking over the menu our [...]

At least that’s how the catchy jingle for the 2009 Tulsa State Fair goes, and we did fly high… if that means we had a lot of fun and tried a lot of great food! So we set out to try the best and most interesting foods from this year’s fair and here’s what we [...]