The sign hanging outside Lip Smackers Restaurant includes the phrase “cooking with passion and love,” and it’s something that owner Jabbar Chaibainou takes to heart. After years in the hotel restaurant industry and owning a Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe franchise, Chaibainou branched out on his own in May at his humble eatery connected to VP Fuels […]
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Cooking cannabis
Edible marijuana is a powerful medicinal tool that unlocks compounds not derived through smoking or offered through CBD (cannabidiol), but it also packs a much more powerful psychoactive effect that requires regulation, especially in recreational uses, according to Oklahomans for Health co-founder Chip Paul. Related Smoking marijuana gets THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) into the system faster because […]
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‘Unapologetically authentic’
The power of word of mouth was seen in full effect after the opening of Tsubaki Szechuan last November. The restaurant, located between Military and Western avenues at 1117 NW 25th St. and connected to Super Cao Nguyen, quickly gained an audience of people flocking to the off-the-beaten-path restaurant for its authentic food from the […]
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Hill of sweets
Sara Miller grew up in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of south Oklahoma City with a dream of returning someday with a bakery of her own. That dream was realized last week with the opening of La Confection at 213A SW 25th St. Before Miller could achieve her dream, she had to gain experience and worked […]
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Helpful bounty
Four years ago, gardener Jenn Mabry looked at the vast array of gardening plots near the Chesapeake Energy Corporation campus off 63rd Street and Shartel Avenue and thought, “There is no way I can do this.” After sitting neglected for a year and a half, the garden that employees once used to grow produce was […]
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PRIDE Boom! brunch
When Out magazine named The Boom! one of the top 200 gay bars in the world in 2013, it singled out Sunday Gospel Brunch as the one event you don’t want to miss, and for good reason. The show has been led by drag queens Rev. Kitty Bob Aimes and Rev. Norma Jean Goldstein since […]
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Courting talent
The Collective Kitchens + Cocktails aims to be the city’s first food hall, which will operate like an incubator for up-and-coming chefs and entrepreneurs at its Midtown location once it opens in early 2019. The Collective is currently taking applications until June 22 to be one of the seven kitchens inside the two-story, 12,600 square-foot […]
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Fateful post
One of the most frustrating days of work for small business owner Dewayne Callahan turned into the most fortuitous for his burgeoning Chicago-style hot dog truck. With the Oklahoma wind whipping and sales slow one afternoon, Callahan’s daughter Maddi sent out a tweet from her Twitter account showcasing her father’s hard work at Callahan’s Chicago […]
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Downtown growth
Norman’s first food truck park is also on the site of the first new building construction in the city’s downtown area in over three decades and removed a potentially dangerous eyesore. TOLY Park is located at 227 W. Main St. and stands for The Old Lumber Yard, which stood unattended on the block for years. […]
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European delight
Traditionally, ganache is the combination of warm cream added to chocolate to create an icing or filling for a variety of confections. It’s the elevation of two simple ingredients that highlight the ethos behind Ganache Patisserie, the brainchild of European-trained pastry chefs and husband-and-wife duo Matt Ruggi and Laura Szyld, which opened in the Chisholm […]