With light wood, green accents, floor-to-ceiling windows and ample indoor and outdoor dining, Riviere Modern Banh Mi in central OKC is as beautiful as its menu is delicious.
You’ll likely visit the restaurant the first time for its namesake sandwiches, all of which have punny names and are served on 8-inch French baguettes. You can’t go wrong with any of...
He’d never admit it, but Brian Green is bone-tired. Executive chef at Tulsa’s Noche, he’s been working fifteen hour days for three weeks straight, with only one day off: Thanksgiving. That’s what you have to do if you’re opening what could be Tulsa’s most exciting new restaurant, with a kitchen where excellence is the norm. Besides, it’s always been...
This no-frills pizza/Middle Eastern joint is the perfect stop for a quick – yet absolutely delicious – bite in Tulsa.
As its name suggests, La Roma Pizza is known for its savory pies. Classic renditions include mozzarella, veggie, supreme and all-meat, but you can also venture into specialties like the R.J.’s – with an olive oil base, Feta, onions and...
Anton’s believes delicious food is what your family deserves – and the team in OKC works to make every moment great. Dishes at the restaurant are made from-scratch and to-order, with options for both lunch and dinner.
Start off with spinach and eggplant dip or garlic lemon fries, then venture over to the sandwiches that include chicken Parmesan, cheese steaks...
Located in Hennessey, Sparky’s offers everything from pasta to salads, sandwiches, wraps and pizza. Breakfast and brunch menu items include a litany of sandwiches, as well as cinnamon rolls, burritos and hearty platters. For lunch, Sparky’s specialty (and it’s self-proclaimed obsession) is the chicken sandwich – and there’s a whole section of the menu dedicated to its iterations. Try...
Ramen, sushi, bowls, oh my! Mizu has everything you crave on a cold winter day.
Starters kick your meal off with a bang. Try the octopus salad, hot karaage (fried chicken), gyoza (potstickers) or spicy edamame. Next, you can’t go wrong with one of many ramen dishes. Classics include the seafood, with spicy broth, shrimp, scallops, narutomaki (cured fish) and...
Thanks to RSU TV – northeastern Oklahoma’s public-television station – and its senior producer-director, Bryan Crain, I was recently able to co-produce and direct a documentary that I’ve been itching to do for a long time. Called Tulsa Terrors, it’s all about the direct-to-home-video horror-movie boom of the mid-1980s and how it was ignited right in T-town. I was...
What is it that is so compelling about the idea of a ghost town? Wind blowing through tall, unkempt grasses around the crumbling remains of buildings. Ancient town signs decaying and hanging haphazardly from old posts. Buildings standing creepily derelict is enough to pique the interest of even the most casual observer. These sorts of scenes fill the imagination...
Congressman and former University of Oklahoma quarterback J.C. Watts once said: “I like to call the ethos I grew up with ‘Oklahoma values.’ But you’d be just as accurate if you said ‘American values.’ Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that’s American.”
And what’s more American than sports? Baseball has...
In a world saturated by video games, anime, comic books, and popular TV shows and films, cosplaying is a popular way to show enthusiasm and form a community of like-minded individuals. The term ‘cosplay,’ short for costume play, was coined sometime in the mid-1980s, but the activity has been around long before that.
“Cosplaying is a hobby and artistic expression...
