By SCOTT CHERRY Restaurant Critic on Mar 16, 2009, at 2:38 PM Updated on 3/16 at 2:38 PM
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Canebrake resort, located four miles east of Wagoner off Oklahoma 51, has scheduled a crab boil and wine tasting 6-9 p.m. ...
Chef-proprietor Justin Thompson has scheduled a benefit opening 6-10 p.m. Thursday for his new Tavolo Italian Bistro, 427 ...
Hope Egan, owner of Hope’s Table catering, said Thursday she plans to open a new restaurant called Tallgrass in downtown ...
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In all of the hubbub surrounding the revival by owner Tom Dittus of the Blue Rose Cafe on the east side of the Arkansas River, a few things have come to mind.
1. Dittus once said he named the restaurant after a band he admired that included songwriter Kevin Welch. As the story goes, Welch was in Tulsa once and was driving down Peoria Avenue, saw the sign and stopped in. He was floored it was named after his band.
2. When I interviewed Dittus for a Saturday story, I forgot to ask if he still has the neon Blue Rose Cafe with skyline sign, or the bespectacled penguin playing the sax, and if these will be included in the new design. I'll remember to ask next time.
3. In the realm of the stuff of legend, Hanson played a patio gig at the Blue Rose when they were wee tikes, which reportedly put the boys on a serious road to stardom. This was before their '92 Mayfest appearance and well before their "Middle of Nowhere" album was released in 1997. '97? Could it have been that long ago. Regardless, I am NOT one of the 40,000 or so Tulsans who claim to have seen them play at the Blue Rose Cafe. Although I WAS walking around Brookside a lot in those days, and just maybe ...........
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