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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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?
Tube food
Televisions are seemingly inescapable in metro restaurants. But not everyone is on board with the dinner-and-‘Dateline’ mode of eating.
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Jenny Coon Peterson
Dining out? Look around. You’ll probably find a television somewhere in your line of sight. That is, if you haven’t already ditched the dinner conversation to succumb to its shiny, colorful TV-ness.
Flame throwers
Is it hot enough out there for you? We’ve got your tongue-scorching drinks to get you through the rest of the sultry summer.
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Christina Nihira
A Bloody Mary is distinctive for its zesty zing, but it’s not the only drink capable of turning up the heat. A new style of spicy cocktails — martinis garnished with jalapeños, margaritas mixed with cayenne, spirits spiked with bitters — is fueling a new trend.
Chinese buffet to benefit recovering deputy
Fundraiser set for Aug. 27 at Mr. Pho.
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Carol Smaglinski
Mark your calendars for Aug. 27, the Asian District’s benefit fundraiser for Maj. John Waldenville of the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s office.
Glorious garlic
The pungent root vegetable is for more than keeping vampires at bay.
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Carol Cole-Frowe
Garlic, how I love thee.
Let me count the ways. Cut and rubbed on crusty, rustic bread.
Joe cool
Coffee shops fight back against brutal summer heat waves by offering something a bit cooler to satisfy those jonesing for a perfect brew.
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Charles Martin
After weeks suffering under the blistering summer sun, the thought of a piping-hot cup of coffee might not pique interest as it would in winter. That doesn’t mean coffee shops are closing their doors and waiting out the heat wave, but rather shifting their focus.
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!
Drink thyme
Herbs bring out the soul of summer cocktails.
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Heide Brandes
At the Cheever’s Cafe bar, Ariana Khalilian pulled out the plastic squeeze container containing a mixture of simple syrup and the pulverized essence of cilantro.
Fork in the road
Deep Fork Grill has a new GM who happens to be a certified sommelier, and his new wine list is created with the customer in mind.
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Greg Horton
Joshua Strother took over as general manager of Deep Fork Grill, 5418 N. Western, in early July. A certified sommelier before he arrived at the restaurant, Strother brought his love of and expertise in wine to bear immediately, making small changes to an already very good list.
Freeze, please
Hot times deserve cold comfort. That’s where ‘fro-yo’ comes in at Pink Swirls, a Midwest City concept.
Whiskey business
It takes a sure hand to handle aggressive whiskeys when mixing cocktails, but a little knowledge can help tame even the boldest bourbons.
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Charles Martin
Vodka and light rums are no-brainers when in a mixing mood because the neutral spirits can be thrown into just about any kind of drink and quickly disappear under a sea of soda and juice.
Red Rhone rising
As Grenache planting in the U.S. improves, wine lovers in the metro reap the benefits of French tradition.
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Greg Horton
Grenache long has been the dominant grape of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the region in southern France known for producing some of the world’s most complex and subtle wines.
Pucker up for Tucker’s
Dedicated to doing it right, hospitality professionals Heather and Keith Paul are launching another new concept called Tucker’s.
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Carol Smaglinski
Like that beautiful woman with the white pearls and stunning black dress, simplicity shines. Come the first part of September, Heather and Keith Paul will be adding one more concept to their Good Egg Dining Group.
To market
Get fresh at these local markets that bring together farmers, ranchers, bakers and crafters.
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Jenny Coon Peterson
Every Saturday, Crestview Farms of Arcadia packs up its produce, herbs and fruits and trucks down to the OSU-OKC Farmers’ Market.
