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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Fair play
We ate our way through the Oklahoma State Fair. So you don’t have to. (But we know you will.)
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Matt Carney, Rod Lott, Jenny Coon Peterson
We passed through the gates of the Oklahoma State Fair with empty stomachs and one goal: Eat. Eat it all. Fried. On a stick. Covered in bacon. Fried a second time.
Jazz it up
UCO Jazz Lab hosts a Sept. 25 benefit dinner with Boulevard Steakhouse.
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Carol Smaglinski
University of Central Oklahoma’s jazz program will benefit from an evening of music, food and wine scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the UCO Jazz Lab at 100 E. Fifth in Edmond.
Sweet victory
With a pirate theme of ‘The Bucs Stop Here,’ the recent Oklahoma Restaurant Association convention held hidden treasures.
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Carol Smaglinski
In a CBS “Sunday Morning” interview last year, 67-year-old Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones showed up, and I swear he had eyeliner painted on his lower eyelids.
Where all roads lead
You can’t have a getaway without thinking about that next meal. Now’s the time to escape, explore and experience.
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Carol Smaglinski
Thousands of dining options are peppered across Oklahoma’s vast expanse. In fact, there is a cornucopia of restaurants just waiting for us.
Harvest beer
Dropping temps and seasonal ingredients inspire Okie brewers to craft custom beers for the fall.
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Charles Martin
When fall arrives, it’s a different world calling for a different beer.
Festi-full
Festivals abound throughout the fall season. Some of the many out-of-town events are quirky enough to justify a car trip.
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Charles Martin
Rural Oklahomans must harbor a love of the eccentric, as some of the most unusual events on fall’s calendar are in small towns across the state.
Tea school
Forget the bag. Here’s what you need to know about drinking tea the way it’s meant.
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Jenny Coon Peterson
Not all teas are created equal. Take that stuff in the little paper satchel. (You know the stuff — it usually comes with a tag that rhymes with “mipton.”) Kristy Jennings, owner of T, an Urban Teahouse, 7518 N. May, said the category in the tea industry for it is “dust.” Tempting!
Prost!
Direct from the beer gardens in Germany comes Oktoberfest, a marathon celebration that inspired a beloved beer style.
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Charles Martin
There are parties, and then there are parties. When Prince Ludwig of Bavaria decided to throw an all-out beer bash following his wedding in 1810, he announced the rager would go on until the last man dropped. This inspired a festival so epic, it kicked off an annual 16-day tradition that survives to this day named Oktoberfest.
Skinnier cocktails
Bars around the metro are starting to offer skinnier versions of sugary favorites, but some cocktails have always been skinny.
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Greg Horton
You know “skinny” is a popular trend when Cheesecake Factory adds menu items under that category. The chain best known for massive portions and the signature dessert in its name added low(er) calorie cocktails at the beginning of 2011, most notably a skinny Mojito and a margarita, classic drinks with a week’s supply of sugar in the recipe.
Auto eats
The dining options along Automobile Alley have revved their engines and taken off.
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Vivian Boroff
Cruising through the streets of downtown Oklahoma City, you will find many enjoyable places to dine. No part of town, however, will capture your taste buds the way Automobile Alley will.
Wine on Tulsa time
Our sister city up the Turner Turnpike offers some delicious options for a weekend wine excursion.
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Greg Horton
For some of you this will be an indefensible position, but in all fairness it needs to be said: Tulsa is a cool city. Some already know that; some will never believe it.
Thirst for the Cure returns
Annual benefit set for Sept. 14.
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Carol Smaglinski
Who knows who might need money for urgent medical care this year? Through the Thirst for the Cure 2011, scheduled from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Sept. 14, money being raised might come to the rescue of needy people in the local hospitality business who otherwise couldn’t afford care.
Game on
Off-season is over! Do you know where you’ll be drinking yet?
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Shawn Lealos
The people begin arriving in Norman as soon as the sun begins to rise. They park their vehicles and set up their grills as the tailgating begins. Soon, the campus is full of fans, young and old. By the time the Oklahoma Sooners take the field, more than 90,000 people are on campus, ready to cheer their team on to victory.
Eat for Upward
Hideaway’s new location hosts Celebrity Wait Night on Aug. 31.
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Carol Smaglinski
Want to visit with local celebrities while you help raise funds for a good cause?
