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New projects by Joe Momma's owner Blake Ewing will offer more dining options downtown.
Joe Momma’s owner Blake Ewing has more projects in the pipeline. On the food front he plans at least four additional food- and drink-related establishments, including the 1980s-themed Max RetroPub, “gourmet junk food” you might buy at the movies, “but fancied up,” he tells TulsaPeople. Drinks will include themed cocktails, mixers such as Tang and Capri Sun, a cocktail with an Otter pop, and energy drink mixers. Along with 25-30 vintage arcade games, he plans floor-to-ceiling analog TVs playing shows from the era. Its likely location: two doors south of his pizza place.
Behind Joe Momma’s will be Back Alley Blues and Barbecue, which will feature quick-serve but slow-smoked Memphis-style barbecue, with a blues joint atmosphere of raw brick walls and black and white photos. He hopes to attract the lunchtime crowd with the at-counter-service, as well as catering gigs. Another project with business partner Rusty is the Phoenix Café, presently planned at Sixth Street and Peoria Avenue.
Down the line, Ewing plans for a whiskey and cigar place he wants to dress up like a speakeasy. It will include a walk-in humidor and “the biggest whiskey, scotch, and bourbon selection in town,” he says. Décor? Manly, with whiskey barrels combined with leather furniture.
One non-food item is also on his list: a vintage T-shirt shop featuring reproductions of Tulsa T’s such as those advertising the Tulsa Roughnecks, “I Rode Zingo” and the Camelot Hotel.
