There are sandwiches, and then there are sandwiches. There are the kind my mom used to make, or have us make for ourselves. Loaf bread, Oscar Mayer cold cuts, cheese and mayo or mustard or — hold onto your hat — both. Technically, that’s a sandwich. It will sustain you, but unless you are coming […]
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Fair-ly full
Sure, that burrito looks good, but so does that turkey leg. And what’s this new thing you’ve never heard of before? Maybe it will fit in your mouth hole and make your hungry-angry go away! And some things don’t even need an explanation, like at the Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts. You know the […]
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Don’t be crabby
Is artifice an inherently bad thing? I ask because, walking into Crabtown, I am struck by the overwhelming degree to which the building is decorated — inside and out — to make the diner feel as if he’s found some sort of Cajun seafood shack that was picked up by a tornado in Louisiana and […]
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Keep on truckin’
That all adds up fast. And there’s no guarantee once you’ve built, staffed and opened your restaurant that anybody’s going to come in and eat. So why not find the people, instead? That’s a big part of the mobile food revolution in Oklahoma City. Food trucks, once only the province of south-side taco vendors, are […]
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Picasso Cafe
Picasso Cafe, 3009 Paseo, is an easy place to be. That might not seem like an essential part of your optimal restaurant experience, but it was part of owner Shaun Fiaccone’s vision. “We wanted a place that felt comfortable,” he said. “The kind of place where we’d want to hang out.” On that count, he’s […]
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Irish ayes
And so, on St. Patrick’s Day, when most of us haven’t been depriving ourselves at all, let us celebrate the man by driving out our hunger and sobriety, even if we haven’t been particularly hungry or sober. And we’ll wear some green. I mean, why not? You could make your devotion known at any old […]
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Last supper
Nobody is going to want to make me food. Think about it: Everybody is going to be huddling with their families, remembering the good times and praying that the end will be relatively painless. But not a one of them will be interested in exchanging a perfectly cooked medium-rare ribeye, shrimp cocktail, garlic scalloped potatoes […]
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The Red Cup
I’m a big fan of meat. Beef and chicken, sure — those are easy. But I like almost every kind of fish, fowl and game. They taste good. That is my criteria for eating. Here’s a flow chart: Does this taste good? If yes, keep eating. If no, stop eating. Pretty simple, yeah? I can […]
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Chefs di Domani
Chefs do not hatch from space eggs, although that’s not a bad idea for a movie. They are not sculpted from clay by the gods of Mount Flavor. They are mere mortals. They have to learn. They have to practice. Some of them do that at Chefs di Domani at Platt College Wednesday through Friday. […]
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Moon Thai
It’s hard to be the first one in a restaurant. You look around at all those empty tables and you begin to wonder, “What do other people know that I don’t?” I have eaten in empty restaurants and regretted it. Sometimes, those places have no business because they don’t have any business being in business. […]