How about something new for dinner this weekend?
Alma and Perle Mesta arrivals are nigh, but Aurora sneaks into the supper fray, too
The 405 diningscape is brimming with anticipation as James Beard nominee Zach Hutton opens Alma tonight and James Beard Best Chef Southwest 2023 winner Andrew Black opens Perle Mesta in the Skirvin Hotel on Monday, but what you may not know is the 16th Street Plaza District has a brand-new dinner spot with a familiar name.
Aurora, slated to move a block to the west next month, will warm up with dinner services on Friday and Saturday in their current home starting tonight. The move is a bridge between two larger ones. As part of moving Aurora into a new, larger home the owners Jamie and Jordan Winteroth ended public dining services at Social Deck and Dining.
“We didn’t close Social,” said Jamie Winteroth. “All our employees there are now with Aurora. We need to get them trained away from brunch service and into coursed dining, and this gives us a good opportunity to do that before we move.”
On Thursday, the Winteroths hosted a preview and showed off the new menu. Good to see some Items from Social made it south. The Club Social was always coming, but I was happy to see the Green Goddess bathed Baby Cucumbers available as a snack or in the Aurora Bowl. Only had room for a sip of that Club Social and some of the Snapper Crudo, which was pure dynamite.
Jamie said they’re opening menu for the new Aurora is now available, but diners should expect it to grow and evolve in time. She said they hope to be fully moved into the former Mexican Radio space by mid-June, but would be satisfied to have all the licensing cleared by month’s end. If you’re interested in dinner at Aurora before the move, click here.
The Food Dood & Friends returns!
Got together in the studios of KOSU earlier this week with Julie Porter Scott and special guest Jared Gleaton to record episode No. 2 of The Food Dood & Friends. Jared is a psychologist who keeps a food blog and vlog of Tulsa and Green Country. He will be a regular contributor to The Food Dood & Friends, so on Monday we decided to bring him in and introduce him to our listeners for an extended conversation about where to eat on the east side of Oklahoma.
Apologies for the audio quality on the segment with Jared, you’ll have to turn the volume up a little. As Food Dood Feed subscribers you’re getting exclusive access to these rough-cut episodes. Your feedback will help us get the show into the kind of shape we need to spread across Oklahoma and into the blood stream of food adventurists around the globe.
Moving forward, “The Food Dood & Friends” draw from a rotation of segments including Crossroads Cuisine of Oklahoma, Pizzabout with Rob Crissinger, and Condimentia with chef Jonathan Krell.
The project is produced and distributed in partnership with KOSU. We think this was our last recording session as the move to the new home in the old Farmers Union building is under way.
If you think you have a story, business or passion for food worth discussing we want to hear from you. Same goes if you’d like to support the show as an underwriter or sponsor. In either case, contact Julie at julieanneporter@gmail.com.
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