I’m a big fan of meat. Beef and chicken, sure — those are easy. But I like almost every kind of fish, fowl and game. They taste good. That is my criteria for eating. Here’s a flow chart: Does this taste good? If yes, keep eating. If no, stop eating. Pretty simple, yeah? I can […]
Greg Elwell
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Chefs di Domani
Chefs do not hatch from space eggs, although that’s not a bad idea for a movie. They are not sculpted from clay by the gods of Mount Flavor. They are mere mortals. They have to learn. They have to practice. Some of them do that at Chefs di Domani at Platt College Wednesday through Friday. […]
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Moon Thai
It’s hard to be the first one in a restaurant. You look around at all those empty tables and you begin to wonder, “What do other people know that I don’t?” I have eaten in empty restaurants and regretted it. Sometimes, those places have no business because they don’t have any business being in business. […]
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Zorba’s Mediterranean Cuisine
What works: The food is back to pre-move quality. What needs work: Fitting me and three friends in a booth. I’m fat. Deal with it. Tips: Paella is only available on the weekends. But gyros, like diamonds, are forever. It’s time to forgive and forget, Oklahoma City. We were all angry with Zorba’s when they […]
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Twitter me this
What can you do with 140 characters? The common knock on Twitter is that the microblogging site is a wasteland of people describing their lunches, shamelessly self-promoting their businesses or begging for more people to follow them on Twitter. But comedian Blaine Bacon saw something else: regular, everyday people dropping one-liners that deserved to be […]
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Ajanta Cuisine of India
There are lots of ways to voice your displeasure with a restaurant. Most people go the anonymous route: posting negative reviews online at Yelp or Urbanspoon or EataroundOKC. And if that’s your method of recourse, please allow me to apologize now for the next sentence: That’s a stupid way to get business done. If you’ve […]
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Lido Restaurant
Should I wear this T-shirt? Can anybody name a Jonas Brothers song? Did you smell that? And yet, when I asked people what they like at Lido Restaurant, one of Oklahoma City’s oldest Vietnamese restaurants, they spoke as one in a voice that could shatter mountains: They said unto me, “Yea, Greg, get the vermicelli […]
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Meat in the middle
I’m an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch and gyros that are shaved from a rotating spit. And, personally, since gyros are just as healthy as greasy burgers and tacos, I have no desire for them to be walked from a fancy […]
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Insane in the Kinane
For the past 12 years, he’s worked his way up the ladder, moving from Chicago to Los Angeles and leaving behind an office job selling gourmet cake decorations over the phone (which he likened to being a “toothless cog” spinning freely) and opening for comedy juggernaut Patton Oswalt. His debut record, “Death of the Party,” […]
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Lucky 7s
Which is why restaurants need concepts. And it’s part of why Cafe 7 has lots of loyal customers. The gimmick, if you will, of Cafe 7 is that all of the entrees are $7. And, honestly, that’s what ties everything together. There’s no common thread running through the dishes, no national cuisine they’re presenting or […]