After more than five years of setbacks and delays, Frida Southwest, 500 Paseo Drive, seated its first dining guests. In the modern space with huge windows and exterior lined with weathering steel, which is designed to be a fast-controlled rusting process, the more than 5,000 square-foot space looks well-established in The Paseo Arts District with […]
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Pueblo hospitality
Every time I drive past the new Paseo Arts District development that is Pueblo at Paseo, the white New Mexico-inspired complex that is the neighborhood’s first construction in decades, I can’t help but notice the a crowd inside OSO on Paseo, 603 NW 28th St. In the development that also includes two other good restaurants: […]
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OSO good
To make their own tortillas or not to make their own tortillas; that is the question facing operators of OSO, the Paseo’s newest restaurant from some of the district’s most notable names. Located at 603 NW 28th St., on the lower level of the new Pueblo development, is OSO, which is positioning itself as a […]
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Paseo’s first new construction in a decade welcomes the arrival of restaurant tenants
Paseo’s first new construction in a decade welcomes the arrival of restaurant tenants.
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Picasso Cafe straddles the line for vegetarians and carnivores with hits and misses
Picasso Cafe straddles the line for vegetarians and carnivores with hits and misses.
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Picasso Cafe’s renovated kitchen continues Paseo District’s culinary evolution
“The whole kitchen gained 50 percent capacity,” Fiaccone said. “We had reached critical mass.”
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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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The buffalo: mighty, majestic, proud.
But for an animal that seems to represent the wide-open plains of Oklahoma to so many, buffalo is far from ubiquitous on most restaurants’ menus. If anything, diners are much more likely to find buffalo wings coming out of a kitchen than bison. Partially, that’s due to costs, said Kaiser’s American Bistro, 1039 N. Walker, […]