BEST OF OKC: Restaurants
The best restaurants in the metro, circa 2011!
BEST OF OKC: Food & Drink
This year's best in food and drink!
Break the chains
Think you can’t kick the habit of national chain restaurants? Think again.
Top of the city
Dine in the sky this coming October!
How cheesy
Gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches are on the menu at The Mule, the Plaza District’s newest haunt.
Seasonal spirits
Ciders, eggnogs and mulled wines are on the menu around the metro.
Where’s the beef?
Local, grass-fed beef makes for a healthy meat option
Adult ice cream
Ice cream cocktails sound brilliant, but it takes skill to keep a delicacy from turning into a sludge of cream and alcohol.
Cork and canvas
A new business combines classic paintings, art instruction and wine to create an evening of culture, learning and fun.
Twin Peaks offers diners a different kind of Black Friday
As in, black lingerie.
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On-pointe provisions
Ballerinas eat! Share a meal and mingle with the lithesome wonders at a special event.
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Jenn Scott
Firebird at Ludivine
8 p.m. Friday
Ludivine
ludivineokc.com
805 N. Hudson
778-6800
Pie-ssibilities
It’s called ‘pie hole’ for a reason, and the metro has many options to fill it.
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Christina Nihira
Luckily, we don’t have to throw ourselves into baking chaos to satisfy a craving for a handcrafted, hot-from-the-oven treat.
Choco-homa
Willy Wonka and his factory have nothing on this annual festival.
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Gazette staff
Chocolate Festival 2012
Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
National Center for Employee Development
2801 State Highway 9, Norman
normanfirehouse.com
329-4523
$22.50-$40
Devouring downtown
OKC’s first Downtown Restaurant Week shows off with special three-course dinners.
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Jenn Scott
Had your eye on a night out to one of Oklahoma City’s fancier eateries?
Family tradition
Jeremy Nickel, the son of the late Gil Nickel, continues his father’s tradition of making fine wine in the Napa Valley.
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Greg Horton
When Muskogee native Gil Nickel died of cancer in 2003, his legacy in the wine world was already well-cemented.
Breaking fast
No more diet sodas and sticky buns! Start the year right by cultivating a breakfast habit.
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Charles Martin
Sometimes it takes a little extra fuel to crawl into work. What better time of year to incorporate a healthy daily habit like a nutritious breakfast?
Meat in the middle
‘JY-row,’ ‘YEER-oh’ — whatever. It’s all ‘yum.’
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Greg Elwell
I love gyros. You should know that about me before we go any further in this relationship.
The buffalo: mighty, majestic, proud.
And not bad on a plate, either.
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Greg Elwell
You might have heard about the health benefits of buffalo. High protein, low fat with lots of iron and that red meat taste we red-meat-eaters are so wild about.
Wine, don’t whine
January will be an outstanding month for wine lovers in the state of Oklahoma.
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Greg Horton
Just so you know, it’s never too late to add resolutions to your New Year’s list. Add this one: Drink more wine.
Mock mixes, authentic fun
Ring in the new year hangover-free.
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Heide Brandes
One New Year’s Eve, Patrick Allmond and a dozen celebrators rented a van to party-hop all over Oklahoma City.
Bite Size: 12-28-11
News and notes on OKC dining.
12 in ’12
The kind of resolutions that are fun to keep involve food.
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Carol Smaglinski
It’s that season where you promise yourself certain things in light of a new year. Why not start 2012 with some resolutions that surround an event that happens every day? Eating!
Cool tools for yule
As this topsy-turvy year comes to an end, rev up for gift-giving! Need ideas for the passionate cook in your life? Try these simple, pure and delightfully uncomplicated culinary tools.
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Carol Smaglinski
Even the most stubborn wine cork is child’s play when you have the proper item. Something simple to use is called Cork Pops. The needle is inserted into the cork and the low pressure propellant cartridge pops the cork right out. It will last for 60 to 80 bottles before it runs out.
Mod mixtures
Take a cue from yesteryear and give your cocktails a vintage twist.
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Christina Nihira
Who better to provide some insight about retro libations than Amy Nelms, head bartender at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel’s Red Piano Lounge?
Heart of the city
City chefs prove that eating healthy also can taste delicious.
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Joshua Boydston
Mercy Health System teamed up with American Heart Association on Nov. 2 for an event about preventative care with “Iron Chef” flair. As part of the national Start Eating Healthy Day, the two groups hosted and organized a healthy cooking competition in hopes of sparking interest in living better, healthier and longer.Mercy Health System teamed up with American Heart Association on Nov. 2 for an event about preventative care with “Iron Chef” flair. As part of the national Start Eating Healthy Day, the two groups hosted and organized a healthy cooking competition in hopes of sparking interest in living better, healthier and longer.
