Restaurant Reviews
Jenny Coon Peterson
There’s nothing like a bowl of pasta and some fresh bread to warm you up on a bitter winter night. Throw in an intimate dining room and a bottle of wine, and you’ll forget it’s blowing like mad outside.
Thursday 23 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Food
All in the family
Using recipes collected from a lifetime in the kitchen with her Italian family, Cathy Cummings turns out traditional, homemade favorites in her Vito’s Ristorante.
Restaurant Reviews
Jenny Coon Peterson
There’s nothing like a bowl of pasta and some fresh bread to warm you up on a bitter winter night. Throw in an intimate dining room and a bottle of wine, and you’ll forget it’s blowing like mad outside.
Cheap chow
OKG7 Dining
Carol Smaglinski
In a lot of restaurants around the metro, there’s love on the stove. We can get spoiled rotten visiting these destinations that serve up good food that is also inexpensive. Some are intimate establishments you might not have heard of, and most have food that is especially satisfying in winter. Stretch your buck and check out these seven.
Johnny be good
Serving fresh food hot and ready when you walk in the door, Johnny’s Lunch Box has been at the same downtown location for generations
Restaurant Reviews
Doug Hill
413 W. Sheridan
232-9409
Owner: Ed Strawn
Date Established: 1946
Food Style: American cafeteria lunch
Average check: $7.25
Italian nights
Bellini’s Ristorante celebrates its 21st birthday by refocusing on what made it great: Italian wine and Italian food.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
Italian reds, for the most part, aren’t meant to be sipped on the patio or enjoyed by a crackling fire. They’re made to complement food: hearty Italian food. Drinking them without the accompanying meal usually leads to two conclusions: tastes like a sour cherry, and too much acid.
Opposites attract
Chef Eric Smith gives loyal lunchers a little taste of heaven at Pachinko Parlor, his split-culinary personality restaurant.
Restaurant Reviews
Carol Smaglinski
Pachinko Parlor
1 N.W. Ninth
601-8900
Executive Chef: Eric Smith
General Manager: Jennifer Hughes
Owners: Rick Haynes, David Haynes and Eric Smith
Food Style: Asian-inspired AmericanAverage Check: $9, lunch; $15, dinner
Breakfast for dinner
OKCMOA hosts annual food-themed fundraiser
Food and Drink Features
Courtney Silva
If eating gourmet breakfast food for a good cause sounds like an appealing way to spend an evening, the Oklahoma City Museum of Modern Art has you covered.
Bite Size
Still scared to pick up the sticks?
Bite Size
Carol Smaglinski
The Chork is just what it sounds like — a fork on one end, and chopsticks on the other. The Chork actually has three user options: the standard fork, trainer chopsticks (with the fork at the other end making it easier to handle) and standard chopsticks (the fork end snaps apart).
Bite Size
Slow Food helping OKC schools
Bite Size
Carol Smaglinski
Slow Food OKC will sponsor an evening of cocktails and a silent auction from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday to benefit Eat Wise OKC.
