OKC Underground by Eating OKC
Award-winning food writer Greg Horton covers the best of Oklahoma City’s food and booze scene via serious and irreverent news and interviews with the industry pros who have put OKC on everyone’s food map.
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OKC Underground Podcast: Stefanie Embree (opens the original)
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Chef-owner Stefanie Embree opened OKC Sweets in 2020, after working as a home baker since 2018. We met in late 2020 while judging a spiked hot chocolate competition for Halloween. I stopped by her Western Avenue bakery shortly after, and was immediately impressed with her products, the thought and creativity that went into the displays, and of course, how damn cute all the specialty items are.
OKC Underground Podcast: Alain Jeu (opens the original)
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At this point in 2026, it seems obvious that Le Parisien is our best new restaurant, and one of the overall best in the city period. The combination of an incredibly talented team, remarkable food, excellent wine list, solid cocktail program, and beautiful buildout has made the Midtown French bistro a favorite for date night, special events, casual dining, and happy hour. Much of their success is due to Executive Chef Bryant Gallego s and operating partner Alain Jeu, both industry veterans, main
OKC Underground: Jonas Favela (opens the original)
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Jonas Favela is the executive chef at Vast , a job that includes overseeing lunch, dinner, tasting menus, banquets, Nova Lounge , and a crew of dozens. The Las Vegas native has been an Okie most of his life, and he's spent a good chunk of his career in some of OKC's best restaurants, including The Metro , The Ranch , and now Vast. He had his own spot a couple times, including Graffiti in The Parlor, the spot where I first had his red curry salmon, a dish that has been added to the Vast tasting m
OKC Underground Podcast: Gabriel Lewis (opens the original)
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Chef Gabriel Lewis made his MasterChef debut when only 19, moving from fast-casual "Mexican" food to one of the best stories in the Gordon Ramsay corpus of television cooking shows. Not because he won, but because all of us who watched remember the emotional moment when Ramsay, clearly taken with something sincere and promising in Lewis, said after the elimination that he would finance Lewis's culinary education.
OKC Underground Podcast: Caleb Stangroom (opens the original)
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Chef Caleb Stangroom is currently executive sous at The National , where oversees culinary operations at Tellers , Gilded Acorn, and The Vault for Coury Hospitality . The New Hampshire native grew up in southern Missouri, and he's been cooking as long as he can remember. While working at various spots around the metro, he's been refining a concept that one day will move from pop-up to brick and mortar, if we're lucky. Tiger Style is the brand,
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