2025 is ready for her curtain call, and 2026 is waiting in the wings to take her place. For some, it’s been a blockbuster year. For others, the finale can’t come soon enough. A host of top local spots are getting ready to help you ring in the new year in style. Bring your main character energy and your supporting cast to wine and dine your way through this year’s closing scenes. Here is a star-studded lineup of New Year’s Eve favorites, including both ticketed and non-ticketed events, worthy of a standing ovation.
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Gazedibles: Birria Buzz
No dish gained in popularity across the country over the 18 months like birria tacos. According to Eater New York, in 2018 the birria hashtag received only around 1,000 views on TikTok, the year of the social media platform’s entry to the U.S., to 3.2 million views by 2019, and 284 million in 2020. By […]
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Gazedibles: Healthy Options
There is no better time to start experiencing the bounty of in-season fruits and vegetables than late spring and early summer. Whether you’re in the mood for a salad, smoothie or fresh fruit, these seven restaurants provide plenty of options. Café 420 409 N. Walker Ave. Facebook.com/AlkalineCafe420 405-768-3470 This plant-based café and shop opened at […]
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Best of OKC 2020
What a year! Even in the midst of a global pandemic, there is much to celebrate in Oklahoma City. In fact, it’s more important than ever to feature and patronize the long list of excellent local restaurants, bars, art galleries, retail stores and other businesses… All while being careful and considerate of one another. Against […]
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Restaurants offering curbside pickup and/or delivery
Abel’s Mexican Restaurant 5822 NW 50th St., Warr Acres 405-491-0911 Abuelo’s multiple locations order.abuelos.com Aurora Breakfast, Bar & Backyard 1704 NW 16th St. shinewithaurora.com 405-609-1960 Back Door Barbecue 315 NW 23rd St. backdoorbarbecue.com 405-525-7427 Bar Arbolada 637 W. Main St. instagram.com/bararbolada 405-601-8659 Bar Chichetti 121 NE Second St. barcicchettiok.com (405) 795-5295 Belle Kitchen belle-kitchen.com Deep […]
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Food Issue: Market move
Crows Farm Markets has been a vendor at OSU-OKC Farmers Market since before it was even known by that name. Claudia Crow said her family started selling various items in 1987 at Pottawattamie County Farmers Market and then at the farmers market at Penn Square Mall, which eventually became the OSU-OKC Farmers Market in 1996. […]
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40 years: City changes
Oklahoma City as we know it was unrecognizable 40 years ago. While physical changes — like the contemporaneous influx of entertainment and eatery options — are obvious, the attitudes of city residents were also drastically different in 1979 and in the following decades. “1979 was important for a lot of reasons,” said Bob Blackburn, executive […]
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To the future!
As we celebrate Oklahoma Gazette’s 40th anniversary, another milestone has recently passed that is of a more private nature. It has been just over one year since I purchased Tierra Media Group, the parent company of Oklahoma Gazette, from founder Bill Bleakley. And in many ways the journey to this place was personal and a parallel to […]
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Best of OKC 2019
When Oklahoma Gazette declares that this is the Best of OKC, we do it with confidence because we’ve got the statistics to prove it. Over 1 million votes get cast in this annual celebration of what makes our city amazing, inventive, adventurous or delicious, and it takes some powerful computing and tolerance of paper cuts […]
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Best of OKC 2019: Food & Drink
Best local craft beer COOP Ale Works 4745 Council Heights Road Anthem Brewing Company, 908 SW Fourth St. Prairie Artisan Ales, 3 NE Eighth St. Stonecloud Brewing Co., 1012 NW First St., Suite 101 Vanessa House Beer Co., 118 NW Eighth St. Best cocktail Lunchbox Edna’s, 5137 Classen Circle Disco Nap, The Jones Assembly, 901 […]