Imagine if zombies invaded The Breakfast Club. That’s literally the setup experienced by your stock-character students of the nerd, the jock, the misfit, the bully, the cheerleader and, so it’s not a total copy of the 1985 John Hughes classic, a wisecracking Asian kid (Justin Chon, 21 & Over) to spout things like, “I gotta […]
Breakfast
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Kitchen creations
Hype is impressive. It gets people excited. For new restaurants, hype can be a godsend. They get customers. They get word-of-mouth advertising. They get known. But a godsend turns into a god-helpyou when the restaurant doesn’t live up to that hype. The word-of-mouth is a curse word. The customers go someplace else. So what is […]
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OKG7 breakfast stops
Good Gravy Diner8014 N. Western842-6200 This mom-and-pop diner serves up breakfast food with your choice of more than 40 types of gravy ranging from chocolate to jalepeño chorizo. Grab the Breakfast at Large, which includes two eggs, hash browns, ham, one sausage patty, two strips of bacon and two biscuits with your choice of gravy. […]
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Breaking fast
Rather than slurping down soggy cereal or a heavily processed food-type product, metro eateries offer nourishing options for your morning meal. The Diner, 213 Main in Norman, has become a tradition among the go-to stops for breakfast munchies. Packed with classic American fare, the menu even attracted Guy Fieri of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-ins and […]
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Cafe central
Incidentally, I realized I loved this type of food while staying at a lodge in Costa Rica some years back that was renowned for its bird watching. The food of Costa Rica, which sits farther down the narrow snake of land that forms Central America, loses some of Guatemala’s spice, but the foundations are there: […]
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Land of Oz
above Waitress Linda Hendrix delivers all-you-can-eat breakfasts to Tony Sampson right and T. Valencia at Ozzie’s Diner at Norman’s Max Westheimer Airport terminal. Going to the airport is always a hectic experience, from check-in to takeoff. It’s a rush of security checks, flight delays and claiming baggage all while carting around carry-ons, IDs and boarding […]