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.
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.
Where’s the beef?
Local, grass-fed beef makes for a healthy meat option
Seasonal spirits
Ciders, eggnogs and mulled wines are on the menu around the metro.
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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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.
Back to the land
Grower Champagne arrived in the metro last year, and this record-setting heat is a good excuse to try it if you haven’t already.
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Greg Horton
Chris Putnam, owner of Putnam Wines, is faced with the same challenge all wine brokers face: how to get people to try something they haven’t tried before. The challenge is even more difficult when the wine is French, pink, bubbly and not cheap.
Soda grows up
Whether you call it soda, pop or (the ill-advised) soda pop, fizzy drinks have gone fancy.
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Christina Nihira
While summer is still a scorching celebration, try treating yourself to a decadent soda. Curious cream sodas, spicy ginger ales, rich root beers, tart citrus beverages with genuine bitterness, complex colas — they’re all chilling out there beside surprising, one-of-a-kind flavors as diverse as cucumber, chocolate and jalapeño oil.
The art of the sandwich
The simple sandwich goes gourmet at these metro restaurants.
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Vivian Boroff
A few months ago, over lunch with friends, a discussion arose about favorite sandwich places in the metro. We discussed breads, meats, cheeses and even vegetarian options. The one thing all agreed on is that a well-made sandwich is truly a form of art.
Snow days
Cool off with some flavored icy treats. Here’s a roundup of where to track down snow cones in the metro.
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The other white
Americans buy more Sauvignon Blanc than any white besides Chardonnay, and this old favorite is undergoing a transformation.
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Greg Horton
Sauvignon Blanc is second only to Chardonnay in acres of white grapes planted in California, but the Golden State hasn’t determined the style of this American favorite in the last few years.
Spaghetti dinner to benefit wounded soldier
Slated for July 16 in Guthrie
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Carol Smaglinski
Local hero Sgt. Rusty Dunagan was struck by an IED while on patrol in Afghanistan on the morning of Sept. 22, 2010.
Gray Owl stirs up latte art competition
Free lattes and beer for spectators on July 21
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Gazette staff
Coffee invigorates more than one’s taste buds. On July 21, it’ll amaze the eyes, too.
The Metro plans Serbian feast
Reservations required for July 17 dinner
