by Greg Horton | Aug 12, 2025 | Events, Featured, Wine
Subtitle: Xmas for Winos! That’s right, Thirst Day and its charity component Thirst for a Cause return September 10. On the new episode, we talk with Alex Kroblin, founder and owner of Thirst Wine Merchants, and Chef Kurt Fleischfresser, who helped found Thirst...
by Greg Horton | Dec 9, 2024 | Chocolates, Dessert, Featured, Food, Industry News, Pastry, The Lists, Wine
It’s James Beard Award season. No, the awards aren’t happening soon, but the judges have been in OKC the past couple weeks for the second phase of the process. (Public nominations are phase one.) At least one of them has been hitting all the right spots, and while...
by Greg Horton | Nov 25, 2024 | Featured, Food, Industry News, The Lists, Wine
We’re ending 2024 with openings and closings hitting 2023 numbers, with more closings than openings, but not by much. It’s looking like 2025 is going to start fast, with four major openings in January. Some of the city’s largest hospitality groups are opening concepts...
by Greg Horton | Oct 14, 2024 | Featured, Italian, Western Ave., Wine
Elisabetta, the new Italian concept from Rachel Cope, will be the first notable restaurant opening of 2025 in Oklahoma City. Scheduled for January, Elisabetta will represent a few firsts for 84 Hospitality, the company she founded with Empire Slice House in Plaza...
by Greg Horton | Jul 30, 2024 | Wine, Featured
The best holiday in Oklahoma is nearly here! Thirst Day and its associated event Thirst for a Cause is Wednesday August 21 at the Petroleum Club Event Center (4040 N. Lincoln). The annual wine holiday, also known as Xmas for Winos, brings 40 wineries and distilleries...
by Greg Horton | Jul 15, 2024 | Featured, Wine
When Ian Bennett, sommelier and co-owner of The Study, first arrived in OKC, it was to assume duties as the sommelier for the newly opened Ludivine, then in the location all of us came to love and now miss. Wine consumption was on the way up thanks in large part to...
