Looking for the right balance

Balance is the key to a good Old-Fashioned, a good cup of coffee, and pretty much everything else this life will throw at you. Local restaurants are hoping to strike that balance with expanded outdoor seating. 

Keeping the faith

Since the last episode, the industry has suffered profound personal losses and the pandemic has shown no signs of slowing. My conversation with Marco Morrow and Mark Burckel offered a nice reminder that hard times do open hidden doors of opportunity.

Selling Hospitality in an Inhospitable Time

This week we were joined on Community Table by a pair of veteran local chefs who spoke on the subject of Selling Hospitality in an Inhospitable Time.

Living and Surviving in Crisis

This week, we made room at the Table for Kinsey Crocker, director of marketing for the Homeless Alliance. Her organization runs point for shelters around the city, organizing and directing traffic to ensure Oklahoma City’s most vulnerable have support.

Adapting and readapting

We’re talking with operators from in and around the Paseo Arts District, on changes they've already made and more changes to come. 

Change is the narrative for local restaurants

If hustle points were dollars, nobody would’ve made more money since the pandemic spread than chef Bruce Rinehart.

Oklahomahummus in the time of coronavirus

Shelby Sieg of Lua Mediterranean and Bottle Shop and Clayton Farhood and Stephen Bradley of Nunu's Mediterranean Cafe share their success and struggles over the last few months.  

Pandemic Rollercoaster

Josh Valentine, with Livegrass Butcher + Bistro, Elise Fischbein, with Paseo Grill, reflect on ups and downs of operating a restaurant during the health pandemic.

Picasso paints a meatloaf masterpiece

On Wednesday, chef Ryan Parrott released the March menu at Picasso Cafe with a little championship gold, adding the meatloaf that won him Kitchen Brigade 405’s 2020 Meatloaf Showdown in January. 

Brewing creativity

Kari Hirst Starkey and Angie LaPaglia are brewing up something special. LaPaglia, a poet and visual artist, helped create a special blend of coffee with Hirst Starkey and Leap Coffee Roasters.