by Greg Horton | Jan 7, 2026 | Featured, Industry News, Restaurants
Chris and LaVeryl Lower, owners of The Metro Wine Bar & Bistro, announced yesterday that they had sold controlling interest in their Nichols Hills adjacent restaurant to longtime friends and regulars Phil G. Busey, Sr. and Cathy Busey, bringing to an end a nearly...
by Greg Horton | Dec 30, 2025 | OKC Underground
This is a year-end recap more than anything, but we wanted to take some time to talk through our list of Best New Restaurants and look at what’s coming for 2026. James Frazier finally gets behind the mic and contributes to this episode, so you have that year-end...
by Greg Horton | Dec 23, 2025 | Restaurants
Congratulations to all the hospitality pros who have the Baby Lord’s (Lord Baby’s?) birthday off, and we hope you get lots of rest ahead of the New Yearpocalypse that is New Year’s Eve. If, like me, you prefer a combination of close friends and...
by Greg Horton | Dec 14, 2025 | Featured, Restaurants
Up front, I need to admit I hate the fetishism related to “best” in nearly every area, but especially with food. At the same time, it’s effective as clickbait, even as I’m pretty sure it’s a dubious claim to say this is the...
by Greg Horton | Dec 10, 2025 | OKC Underground
Rachel Cope is so well known around OKC she barely needs an introduction, yet I still run into people who don’t know much about her or the company she founded, 84 Hospitality, in 2016. Normally, she’s associated with Empire Slice House (founded 2013), but...
