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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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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Szechuan Bistro
When Szechuan Bistro opened last summer, owners Xium (Sophia) Zheng and chef Yuanren Zhen decided to populate the menu with thoughtful and inspired dishes that pursue a depth of flavor and textural contrasts. There are two menus at the restaurant: one Chinese and one American. Little red marks on the menu indicate the hot dishes, […]
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The Stuffed Olive
Owner and general manager Andrea Durow, once a partner at Moore’s Two Olives Cafe, decided to not only curb the chain deli trend, but the chain trend, in general. “We were trying to serve fresh food in south suburban Oklahoma City,” Durow said. “There aren’t a lot of locally owned, made-from-scratch type restaurants here, and […]
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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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Local treasure
The dishes are straightforward and impressive. Michael Sills is the kind of chef who cooks with a lot of soul and intellect. The guy just loves interaction with his diners. “We’re pretty blessed. After some 16 years, every night here is a party; I just never know who’s coming,” said the 62-year-old Sills. The menu […]
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Creole royale
A native of Ghana, Mills attended culinary school in the British coastal city of Brighton. He sharpened his cooking and management skills for 23 years in some of New Orleans’ finest establishments before coming here and partnering with Simeon Adda. Mills’ revelation for Cajun food in Oklahoma may have had some spiritual inspiration. His minister […]
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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 […]
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Hoagie heaven
While surveying the carnage my friend and I left behind on the table at Someplace Else Deli & Bakery, 2310 N. Western, I thought about the mild rye bread used on some of the sandwiches. I pondered the sauerkraut — a condiment about which I have, at best, mixed feelings — which didn’t overpower the […]
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Hoagie heaven
While surveying the carnage my friend and I left behind on the table at Someplace Else Deli & Bakery, 2310 N. Western, I thought about the mild rye bread used on some of the sandwiches. I pondered the sauerkraut — a condiment about which I have, at best, mixed feelings — which didn’t overpower the […]