While by no means a scientifically proven statement, most fast food joints named after sports heroes are usually—hut, hut—pretty good. That being said, I thought Billy Sims Barbeque was pretty...
When I attended the Paul McCartney concert at the Chesapeake few weeks ago, standing in the lobby were sad-eyed and stick-thin representatives from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...
Summers growing up in small town Texas, usually in the mornings you attended some form of Vacation Bible School at one of the 100 Baptist churches in the area and then, if you were lucky, spent the...
When I left home shortly after graduating high school, going (North) west young man, I spent many of the best years of my early days of forced manhood in a piecemeal duplex that was filled with...
There are two ways I would like my cold, lifeless corpse to be found in the morning: sitting on the toilet, hand clutching my heart, greasy bloodstream full of homemade barbiturates or, much more...
A new steak house recently opened up in the self-appointed elitist stretch of Oklahoma City proper, a beautifully self-effacing joint that proudly offers up various highly premium cuts of beef and a...
After the sheer physical, moral and downright psychological breakdowns that were incited by my recent trip to WinCo foods in Moore, an afternoon stop by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s FireLake...
Forget the bright lights and Vegas-style gaming…the real jackpot at Thunderbird Casino is in their dining area! Driving east down Highway 9, past Norman and into rural oblivion, the eats are pretty...
Considering that it’s probably the one state dish that all of us, Native American or otherwise, collectively and continually crave, it seems as though the Indian Taco is the Brigadoon of local...
For some unexplained reason, North May Avenue, from about N.W. 36th to around N.W. 63rd, has become the Metro’s absolute Mecca for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern eats, with, at last count, at...
I spend most of these warm summer days indoors, writing frightening verse to a bucktooth girl in Luxembourg. But on those occasions when I feel the need to leave the creature comforts of recirculated...
One of the many things that, now in tearful retrospect, I took for granted during my time in Fort Collins, Colorado, was all of the, for lack of a better word, hippie food joints that seemed to dot...
With the imminent razing of the Donnay Building and all its accoutrements to make room for a new Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Store, I guess now is as good a time as ever to pay a visit (last...
I have to give my father credit for one thing: when he wasn’t on a brutal rampage of terror, abusing his family both physically and mentally, he was a damn good cook. Growing up in Depression Era...
If you’ve ever wondered what a Biblically-based triptych by 16th century Finnish painter Jheronimus Bosch, like the one above, would look like come to actual life, then go no further than the...
It’s easy to give out Twitter accolades and Instagram bravos to the same series of easy-to-reach food trucks that are all located in the same oil-stained spots day after day and are written about...
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ― Marcel Proust In honor of their 30 years in Oklahoma City, all City Bites restaurants are going totally...
It’s a little bit unsettling to be the only person in a diner when it opens, especially one like the Hungry Frog, where the rising sun glimmers off the hundreds of glass and ceramic frog tchotchkes...
As I walked through the rain-soaked gates of Bleu Garten, it was impossible not to feel like I was back in my middle school lunch room. Searching for an open table as popped-collar bros clutching...
Without fail, the dreariest, saddest places to eat are always inside of government buildings. From municipal cafeterias to state capitol snack bars, prepare for an emotionally draining...
A few weeks ago, I pontificated wildly on the absolute perfection that is this small time rib joint located behind a small glass case in the Corner Market convenience store down on Martin Luther...
The news of Braum’s 23-skidooing their highly-popular one-third pound burgers, as well as the supposed switcheroo of their milkshake recipe, seems to have opened the floodgates of popular opinion...
In a nou-faux riche city filled with overeducated coffee-houses overly-proud of their overpriced confections, it’s good to visit a hole-in-the-wall joint that don’t give a good Goddamn about...
Being the co-brewers of a wildly popular seasonal craft beer, I doubt you’d be surprised to know that we’re big fans of craft beer at The Lost Ogle. It’s a big part of our history...
Growing up, whenever my family took the traditional car-piled road trips, we very rarely, if ever, stopped. My father was absolutely determined to get wherever we were going within a recklessly short...