What happens when you want a romantic Valentine’s dinner but your favorite restaurant is all booked up and you don’t want to cook an entire meal from scratch? Nosh Restaurant in Moore is here to save the day with a take-and-bake Valentine’s option that includes food, a dozen red roses, love spell candles and “fall […]
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Valentine’s Day: Deuce dining
After being in the planning stages for more than seven years, the first two of three restaurants by partners Rudy Khouri and chef Andrew Black in The Maywood apartments in Deep Deuce are open in time for Valentine’s Day. Khouri founded La Baguette in Norman more than 30 years ago and licenses the name and […]
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Weight list
Restaurant food challenges have existed for decades. The earliest known challenge was in St. Louis at Crown Candy Kitchen, which has been in operation since 1913. In more than a century, only about 30 people have successfully finished five 24-ounce milkshakes or malts in 30 minutes. Perhaps the most famous food challenge is down Interstate […]
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Immersive catering
In six years working at a host of venues across the metro area with Cosabella Catering, restaurant veteran Erica Hogan never found a venue where she could fully prepare meals on-site. Tired of always having to prepare meals in other people’s kitchens, Hogan has opened Cosabella Kitchen, 6516 N. Olie Ave., Suite C, which aims […]
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Opportunity knocks
Nic’s Grill has many super fans, from Guy Fieri to Colin Farrell, who can attest to its status as not just one of the best burgers in Oklahoma City, but also in the country. They pale in comparison to Cameron Benson, who has parlayed his love of Nic’s into becoming part of its next generation. […]
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Forward momentum
Suzy Thompson and her husband Steve Wampus Reynolds got their start in 2002 at Opolis, the Norman music venue at 113 N. Crawford Ave., operating a small coffee shop. Thompson had long fostered an interest in cheesemongering, and around that time, a group of supportive University of Oklahoma professors urged her to start a shop. […]
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Classen curved
Cafe 5015825 NW Grand Blvd. hrgok.com/cafe-501-classen-curve 405-844-1501 What works:Anything from the bakery, especially sandwiches with housemade foccacia. What needs work:The marinade on the poke bowl missed the mark. Tip:Check out its seasonal wine dinners, like Feb. 7th’s Language of Love. Cafe 501 is one of Edmond’s most venerable restaurants as it closes in on 25 […]
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Italian expansion
The partnership that includes celebrity chef Fabio Viviani and local chef Jonathon Stranger — Osteria — expanded its offerings to midweek lunch and weekend brunch last week, but it’s only the beginning of the expansion between talented chefs. The duo will join with other partners to open Bar Cicchetti in the old Urban Johnnie’s location […]
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Local viewing
The operators of the new Chalk sports bar, which hosts its grand opening in Chisholm Creek Feb. 3 following initial service that began last week, want to alleviate the biggest concern of trying to watch a specific sports event right as the customer enters the door. The 7,500 square-foot two-story restaurant and bar with 100 […]
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Collateral effects
In early December 2018, Jake Keyes fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening his own commercial brewery — Skydance Brewing Co. — at Brewers Union with the news of a potential federal government shutdown looming, but its potential effect on his new business didn’t hit home until it was too late. As the federal shutdown, which […]