by admin | Dec 17, 2025 | OKC Underground, Featured
Chef Eric Smith, a James Beard Award nominee (Best Chef Southwest), trained in Oklahoma City but developed his “voice” in Chicago restaurants for more than a decade before returning to Oklahoma City. The Duncan, Oklahoma native has been in the culinary...
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...
by Greg Horton | Dec 4, 2025 | Featured, OKC Underground
Bryan Kerr is the owner of Moore Liquor, which, to use a phrase of his, is in the “blast radius of Total Wine” in Moore. The chain behemoth opened their first Oklahoma location in September, and the impact on Kerr’s business was immediate, as it was...
by Greg Horton | Nov 12, 2025 | Featured, OKC Underground
Chef Taylor Desjarlais left OKC right before the COVID lockdown after successful stints at several spots in the metro including Café Cuvée in the Ambassador Hotel and Chae, which remains one of the most painfully missed spots in town. A heads up that this episode...
by Greg Horton | Nov 4, 2025 | Featured, OKC Underground
Jamie (Fritts) Winteroth is one of the founders of Shared Plate Hospitality, along with her husband Jordan. She has been in hospitality most of her life, including stints at some locally famous and infamous spots from the days when she worked for Deep Fork Group at...
by Greg Horton | Oct 30, 2025 | Featured, OKC Underground
Jacob “Jake” Keyes is the founder and owner of Skydance Brewing, with its game-day-central taproom just off Automobile Alley on NE 7th. His second job is Chairman of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. Keyes is an avid OU football fan, and a former casino manager....
