“Jūnin toiro.” – Japanese proverb When my ladyfriend asked where I would like to go for my long-awaited birthday dinner, this year I had only one place in mind: Mr. Tacos in Tulsa. However...
I recently saw a poll that said 71% of Americans are afraid to go back to the movies. As I was about to turn 42 last weekend, my mortality always in question, I could really see that cinematic fear...
Wanting to get out of the city if only for a few scant hours last weekend, my ladyfriend and I took a random road trip to medium-sized berg of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Thankfully taking over, she had...
Once upon a time… The other day, the closest Starbucks to me—which still quite a distance, mind you—decided that they were going to start closing shop at 2:30 p.m., well before the internal...
I grew up a thankfully nourished child due to Oklahoma’s once-stellar free lunch program. To typically hungry kids like me that counted on a warm tray of eats every school-day for breakfast and...
I recently co-adopted a lovable mutt that every few weeks needs to make a trip to Spencer to receive various puppy-based vaccinations that, I’m told, are quite important. And while waiting in the...
Let’s be overindulgently honest for a moment: no one really goes to the Great State Fair of Oklahoma for the dumb games or the lame rides or even the z-list concerts. The hefty truth is most people...
“You always take me to the nicest places…” By the dim light of the Miller Lite lamp hanging over the pool table, my ladyfriend mocked this latest dinner outing and, you know, she’s kind of...
As water from the hole in the ceiling near the back of the dining room slowly drips into buckets on the floor, it’s obvious that Ranch House Café, 5000 NW 10th, is on its last legs. It was...
In my mostly questionable life, one of the few things that I have an absolute passion for, something that borders on a sad sexual frenzy, are gas station-based restaurants. TLO editor Patrick knows...
To me, the Pig and the Butcher sounds like it should be the title of a very old German folktale about a pubescent porker on the verge of a gruesome fate that possibly includes grinding porcine flesh...
Growing up in a one-horse Texas town, when I was a niño pequeño, my blessed grandparents would usually send me care packages filled with all kinds of Mexican goodies that we could never find on our...
One of my ladyfriend’s favorite hobbies is antiquing on the weekends. While she typically enjoys finding things like rustic furniture, unique jewelry and other semi-conversational items on the...
We were lucky to have Rachel Cope – the restauranteur behind Empire Slice House, Gorō Ramen and other popular concepts from 84 Hospitality Group – on a recent recording on The Lost Ogle Show...
Many times—more than I’d actually like to count—people have asked me if I was ever going to review the legendary Eskimo Joe’s in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Usually, I’ll try to change the...
“Eat Local.” It’s a sturdy phrase that’s been passed around like a plate of Okie hors d’oeuvres, especially over these past few months, usually recited after hearing horror stories of...
It’s been about five months since Oklahoma was diagnosed with Covid-19 and, almost as traumatic, it’s been even longer since I’ve had an Indian Taco that I didn’t personally make myself...
This past Saturday, before heading to the Indigenous protest of the Land Run Monument in Bricktown, I decided to stop for breakfast at the recently renovated and newly reopened Old School Bagel...
On the most typical of sultry summer nights, for dinner, I happily make due with a half-cooked Lean Cuisine and a lukewarm Diet Coke. But, as this virus seems to rage on so do my spurts of culinary...
Arguably, the best thing about the Great State Fair of Oklahoma is the sheer amount of nutritionally-deficient foodstuffs available to nibble on and nosh off, usually stuffing our gunky gobs as we...
I live a life of piety and privation, trying my best to not to ask for all that much in life, this borrowed time remaining all I really need. That being said, there are two vices that I do tend to...
Without a doubt, for Vietnamese food, you can’t do better than any of the fab phở joints that line Classen Blvd. But, when you’re looking for primo Korean food, you’re gonna want to head down...
I was traveling on I-35 for personal reasons a few days ago when, outside Guthrie, I passed a mile-high sign with three letters of temptation at the very top: B, B and Q. My stomach churning for...
It’s a sad country song that I know I sing over and over again, but when driving across the fruited plains of Oklahoma, you start to realize the down and dirty truck-stops of years gone by have...
As the country continued to burn last week, many Oklahomans on the internet were fuming when Barstool Sports shared an infographic inexplicably naming Tim Horton’s – the beloved Canadian...
