The meals you eat on vacation can’t really make or break the experience, but they can tarnish your memories, and when your journey brings you to Tulsa for an epicurean adventure you can write home about, we at StayInTulsaOK want to make sure that your meals shine bright. The restaurant landscape of our Oklahoma town is vast and varied and the choices can overwhelm, but we have your back. This guide to the best restaurants in Tulsa will ensure there are no missteps, sour notes, or to keep it plain and simple, no bad meals to be had!
Day 1: Starting the Day Out Right
We have all been taught that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and our Southern mothers have all taken that to heart, as have the owners of Tally’s Good Food Café. Offering two locations, one at 1102 S Yale Avenue and the other at 6100 S Sheridan Road #4051, Tally’s is one restaurant you will more than likely want to return to for lunch and dinner as well. It is open from 6 AM to 11PM every day, and every meal is our favorite, but you may want to pay special attention to Tally’s Chicken & Waffles and Tally’s Hamburger Heaven (beef and sausage are mixed together to make one heavenly patty).
Day 2: All Aboard the Flavor Train
Ollie’s Station, located just off Route 66 at 4070 Southwest Boulevard, is a humble and reasonably priced restaurant offering a train station theme that we can promise, your kids will love. Great for breakfast and lunch and open daily from 6:30 AM until 2 PM, the menu offers diner type favorites, and they offer a yummy buffet at lunch during the week and for breakfast on the weekends. The trains that are everywhere are sure to delight your youngest travelers.
Day 3: Fine Dining
So far we have kept to the reasonably priced and exceedingly tasty diners and cafes, but every vacation deserves at least one fine dining meal and today we are recommending Boston Title & Abstract. No, we didn’t lose our train of thought, that is the name of one of our most popular fine dining establishments, located at 522 S Boston Avenue Suite B100, and offering an art deco speakeasy vibe. Offering everything from charcuterie boards to surf and turf, their drink menu is a worthy read.
Day 4: Ole and Yum
We love our Southern roots, but sometimes we want to venture a little further south, all the way to Mexico to be exact and El Rio Verde Restaurant is where you will find us when the taco craving hits. Located at 38 N Trenton Avenue and open daily from 9 AM until 8 PM, El Rio serves the heat but can keep it mild if you need. Cheesy, spicy, and muy bueno, everything on the menu is sure to please and a kid’s menu will ensure that your pickiest travelers will eat well. Bring your appetite, portion sizes are huge!
Day 5: Bottoms Up
When you want a good craft beer to go with your meatloaf, Buffalo Cheese Fries, or even your Sunday Brunch, a visit to Roosevelts at 1551 E 15th Street is the first place you should consider. Offering a gentlemen’s library vibe, a tap wall of beers from all over the world (Delirium Noel, a Christmas Belgian Strong Ale rocks!) and a sophisticated menu serving everything from Ahi Tuna Nachos to Tenderloin Stroganoff, this gastro pub is sure to be a highlight on the map of your tour.
Day 6: Sweets for the Sweet
We are taking you back to the café circuit for this next stop on your road trip of yum, but only for dessert. Don’t get us wrong, the Blue Moon Café, located at 3512 S Peoria Avenue, serves amazing food—we adore their breakfast burritos—but we have a taste for something sweet, and the pastries and cakes served here never let us down! Cool, funky, and ultimately sweet and delicious, their baked good selection changes regularly, so we can’t recommend anything specific, but trust us; everything they serve is wonderful.
Day 7: Nothing But the Best for Our Guests
If you ask 100 people what they think the best restaurant in Tulsa is, you will get 100 different answers, but The Bull in the Alley, located at 11 E Mathew Brady Street, seems to get a large consensus overall. Another speakeasy restaurant, it is tucked away in an alley lined with bricks but one you are on the other side of the green door a whole new world opens up. Moody, sophisticated and stunningly designed, the menu is an extensive one, but you have to try the table steak. Anything is good, but the table steak is chef’s kiss exciting!
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