by Greg Horton | Apr 25, 2025 | Featured, Food, Street Food
Arts Council Oklahoma City’s Festival of the Arts has landed; you can tell from the weather that it’s the first weekend, but the rain should not stop you from hitting up the food tents and trucks. My colleague JaNae Williams, food writer at The Oklahoman, and I...
by Greg Horton | Apr 7, 2025 | Dessert, Featured, Food
Boom Town Creamery is expanding again, but this time it’s a brand new concept. Owner Angela Muir is joining the array of concepts filling out Bungalow 23, owned by Truong Le and Ty Hamilton, and she’s teaming up with Executive Chef Kayli Bartnicki to present Novelty...
by Greg Horton | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured, Food
The list began two years ago as a personal challenge of sorts. While on a travel junket to Houston, I came across a 100 Best Things in Houston article in a local magazine, and while I’m not crazy about pitting dissimilar dishes against each other to determine a...
by Greg Horton | Mar 6, 2025 | Bakery, Featured, Food
Before he was a famous baker of Oklahoma City’s best bread, Chef Kenny Hilburn took a turn at cowboying, the highlight of which was building a dam for goats. Most recently the South Korea-born Hilburn was baking at nonesuch, but that was the last temporary gig he...
by Greg Horton | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured, Food, Street Food, tacos, Thai, Uptown
The best Thai food in OKC comes from a truck called Mob Thai’d, a name derived from a Drake lyric, and owners Amanda and Benji Sukmanee launched the business with a huge water balloon fight on April 13, 2024, in conjunction with Thai/Lao New Year. (The Drake song is...
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...
