BEST OF OKC: Restaurants
The best restaurants in the metro, circa 2011!
BEST OF OKC: Food & Drink
This year's best in food and drink!
Break the chains
Think you can’t kick the habit of national chain restaurants? Think again.
Top of the city
Dine in the sky this coming October!
How cheesy
Gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches are on the menu at The Mule, the Plaza District’s newest haunt.
Where’s the beef?
Local, grass-fed beef makes for a healthy meat option
Adult ice cream
Ice cream cocktails sound brilliant, but it takes skill to keep a delicacy from turning into a sludge of cream and alcohol.
Seasonal spirits
Ciders, eggnogs and mulled wines are on the menu around the metro.
Cork and canvas
A new business combines classic paintings, art instruction and wine to create an evening of culture, learning and fun.
Twin Peaks offers diners a different kind of Black Friday
As in, black lingerie.
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Food and Drink Features
No slowing this Mustang down
OKC-based brewer celebrates third anniversary with ‘Hops and Hell’ event.
Food and Drink Features
Gazette staff
In celebration of its third anniversary, Oklahoma City-based Mustang Brewing Company will host the Razing Hops and Hell tour, promising “great music and great beer.”
Slice of variety
Feeling a little bored with your current pizza relationship? Spice up your pies with these local alternatives.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Elwell
They say pizza is like sex: Even when it’s bad, it’s pretty good. But nobody goes out on the town looking for mediocrity. We want the best. We want to be excited and enchanted. Sure, we all enjoy pepperoni now and again, but let’s get kinky and try something different, shall we?
On the vine
Lend a hand by raising a glass in support of affordable prosthetics.
Food and Drink Features
Sarah Lobban
Branching Out Winery Tour
11 a.m. Saturday
Limbs for Life Foundation
limbsforlife.org/events/winerytour
605-5462
$100-$175
Strong brew
Have no fear: The beer cocktail is here.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
Beer cocktails are becoming regular features on bar menus around the metro. Yes, beer cocktails.
Young love
This Portuguese wine is scarce, but leave it to your local favorites to bring the best of the best.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
The Portuguese wine Vinho Verde (just ignore the H) is inexpensive, delicious, crisp ... and scarce in the metro.
’merican medley
Purists might have a difficult time finding cuisine suited for Independence Day, but who cares.
New brew
Oklahoma’s newest craft brewer rolls out his first kegs, thanks to a brewers’ cooperative.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
Oklahoma’s newest craft brewer has shipped its first kegs. McNellie’s, 1100 Classen Drive; Republic, 5830 N. Classen Blvd.; and Tapwerks, 121 E. Sheridan, are the first three in-state locations to carry Anthem Brewing Company’s Golden One, a Belgian blond ale.
One tequila, two tequila
It’s like a beach vacation in your glass, whether served frozen or on the rocks.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
According to Gourmet magazine, the margarita is now the most popular cocktail in the U.S. Considering there are dozens of variations on the base recipe and thousands of Tex-Mex restaurants that serve only beer and margaritas, it’s easy to believe.
Masterpiece meals
A new menu, decor and national recognition make the Museum Cafe a delightful summer haven.
Food and Drink Features
Joshua Boydston
When surrounded by gorgeous blown glass, Renaissance portraits and inventive modern art pieces, it’s easy to overlook the Museum Cafe in the east wing of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Bouquet of rosés
Bubbly and chilled, rosé provides some heat relief without sparing taste.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
The metro is now home to nearly four dozen rosés, with the majority of the imports coming from France, Spain and South America.
Liquid cooling
A cool cocktail in hand is the only way to beat the summer heat.
Food and Drink Features
Nicole Hill
When it comes to beating the heat, there are two strategies: Stay inside with the cold clutches of the lonely air conditioner, or counteract summer’s scorched-earth policy alongside your fellow sufferers by refreshing your taste buds with some cool cocktails.
The hole shebang
Everyone loves a good donut.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Elwell
What a conundrum you present, donuts. First of all, should you be spelled “doughnuts”? Nobody is quite sure.
Wheat ease
Restaurants tweak their menus to accommodate gluten-free diets.
Food and Drink Features
Sam Lower
Most of us go out to eat because it’s easier than cooking at home.
Sweet bubbles
Cool down with a crispy and fruity glass of white wine.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
When it comes to Riesling, many people simply say, “I hate sweet wine.”
Bad day at Redrock
Fire destroys most of a lakeside OKC restaurant.
Food and Drink Features
Gazette staff
A fire shortly after midnight this morning roared through a popular Lake Hefner restaurant, the Redrock Canyon Grill.
