An underground coffee shop in downtown Tulsa, Notion Coffee is built on the passion of coffee creation as a skilled art form, with a Modbar design removing the barrier between a coffee drinker and his or her barista. Following input from the coffee community, Notion is often offering new experiences, hand-crafted specialty drinks, latte throw downs, seasonal syrups and...
Follow your nose for fresh-from-the-oven pastries, breads and cakes at Whipped Bakery Café in Warr Acres. Whether a special order confection, a signature sandwich crafted with handmade yeasted bread, or simply a handcrafted coffee drink, the bakery has you covered. Try the original Runza burger, or perhaps the roasted turkey on focaccia with lettuce, avocado, apple and poppy seed...
Chef Chris McKenna is no stranger to the Oklahoma City culinary scene. A native of Edmond, McKenna has turned out eye-catching and palate-pleasing dishes at OKC favorites such as Stella Modern Italian Cuisine, Packards New American Kitchen, Oso on Paseo and Clark Crew BBQ.
McKenna’s latest project is the Joinery, a multi-faceted and multi-leveled hotspot for Italian-American cuisine, craft beer...
If you have never experienced authentic Guatemalan specialties, today is the day to make your way to Tenth and Virginia Avenue in OKC, to a tiny storefront that began years ago in the Plaza District. Tienda Guatemala offers both daily menu items made from scratch in small batches and beautifully crafted bread and sweets in the “Minimarket Guatemala” side...
There’s something peculiarly primal and satisfying about friends sitting around a fire with delicious meat sizzling in the flames. For that reason and many more, Mr. Kim’s is a fun place to be.
Some restaurants might intimidate diners with food and customs from a different tradition. Not here.
“We’re playing 1990’s hip hop, there’s crazy art decor,” says chef Ben Alexander,...
Tucked into the northeast corner of Lincoln County just a mile off the halfway point of the Turner Turnpike, Stroud holds a distinctive place on Oklahoma’s original “Mother Road” – the famed Route 66.
Now designated U.S. Historic Route 66, the highway that once stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles bisected Oklahoma, coming through the middle of Stroud. Route 66...
The floor is shaking, your wall hangings are moving in odd and inexplicable ways and your brain finally grasps what’s happening – earthquake! While a few short years ago we would expect this to happen to our California cousins, today it could well be an event occurring anywhere in Oklahoma.
According to the experts, Oklahoma has been experiencing an upswing...
It’s estimated that more than one in seven U.S. adults – approximately 37 million people – suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The most common cause of chronic kidney disease is diabetes mellitus, both type I and type II, followed by hypertension, says Jose El-Amm, MD, medical director of the INTEGRIS...
Private islands and inland adventures will delight in this beautiful, multi-ethnic nation. The melting pot of various cultures there includes Maya, Garifuna, Mestizo, Creole and Mennonite. Once called the “British Honduras,” Belize is the only Central American country with English as its main language. It features the world’s only jaguar reserve, plus the second largest barrier reef and ancient...
Those of you who regularly visit this space know that I’ve written a great deal about that elusive musical genre known as the classic Tulsa Sound. It’s something I first started researching in earnest almost four decades ago, when I went to work for the Tulsa World newspaper as an entertainment writer, and it’s been a continuous source of...
