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The buzz on Tulsa's tastiest products, restaurants and events.
School’s just starting for summer
Sage Culinary Studio has an enormous new space devoted to all things culinary. Located in the Shoppes of Regal Plaza in front of the SpiritBank Event Center, 10441 S. Regal Blvd., the new 6,500-square-foot location features three cooking studios as well as a generous retail area. It also features a coffee and juice bar with seating so parents can stay and visit with one another while their children attend classes or birthday parties, or linger after an adult cooking class. Hands-on cooking classes are offered for kids (ages 3 and up) as well as adults.
Sage Brookside: 3746 S. Peoria Ave., 933-5005. Sage Southside: 10425 S. 82nd E. Ave., Suite 100, 933-5005. Visit www.sageculinarystudio.com for a schedule of classes.
The Puck stops here
Wolfgang Puck has brought his latest restaurant concept, Wolfgang Puck Bistro, to Brookside. Located in the space formerly occupied by Delta Café and scheduled to open in June, the bistro offers Puck’s authentic recipes and signature dishes at affordable prices.
“Each dish is prepared with my culinary philosophy that ‘Simple is delicious,’” Puck says in a press release. “I see the restaurant as the reinvention of the classic bistro for the 21st century American palate and lifestyle.”
The menu features Puck’s signature gourmet pizzas and his infamous Chinois chicken salad, as well as daily specials and his twists on regional favorites.
Chef Puck’s restaurants all feature a theatrical open kitchen and this location is no different. The culinary stage, complete with rotisserie and a hearth-style oven, serves as the heart of the 5,000-square-foot space. The restaurant’s franchise owner and operator is Tony Henry, also a principal of several restaurant and nightclub ventures in Oklahoma, including Tulsa’s Full Moon Café and In the Raw Sushi on the Hill and SKKYBAR Lounge and Buddha Tao Asian Bistro in Oklahoma City.
Wolfgang Puck Bistro, 3330 S. Peoria Ave. For more information, visit www.wolfgangpuck.com.
Dining around the world without leaving Tulsa
Julia Child is only one of the many inspirations behind the dozens of food blogs going on all over the world right now. Tulsa’s own Sasha Martin, however, has her own inspiration — her life. She lived in Europe for six years and traveled to 11 countries before she turned 19. After turning up in Tulsa for an internship at Bama Pie, Martin met the man who would become her husband and decided to stay put. She missed the foreign foods she grew up with and realized that with her culinary training, she could make them here in Tulsa.
That is how her blog project, “Global Table,” was born. Martin is on a mission to cook one meal from every country in the world. The 195 countries equals 195 meals — and she’s doing it in 195 weeks!
No stranger to writing about food, Martin wrote “The History of Artisan Bread Baking in France” to fulfill her honors thesis at Wesleyan University and was the editor of La Papillote, the student newspaper at The Culinary Institute of America, where she refined her skills for a year.
Read all about Martin’s global culinary adventures on her Global Table blog: www.globaltableadventure.com.
Spring in full swing
The Cherry Street Farmers’ Market is up and going in its new location smack dab in the middle of Cherry Street. The market has moved to the street, in the blocks between Quaker and Rockford avenues, making space for about a dozen new vendors, as well as a slew of additional parking spots. The East 41st Street and South Peoria Avenue Wednesday market picks up on May 5, and has a new location as well — in the parking lot of Food Pyramid in the northwest corner.
In addition to offering fresh fruits, veggies, meats and plants, the Cherry Street Farmers’ Market is partnering with the American Diabetes Association’s Tour de Cure. Scheduled for May 15, this charitable bicycle event will start and finish two blocks east of the market on Cherry Street. Ongoing events are planned all day, and market caterers will demonstrate healthy food preparation during the morning’s activities.
