Best of - Tulsa Restaurants That Are Gone

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Mr. Neils Subs & Sandwhiches.....

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Sussy's Pizza. In high school, every Thursday night I would go visit my friend who worked at the Admiral/Pittsburgh location and get a large Shrimp & Cheese pizza and eat the whole thing.

Kip's Big Boy was pretty larrapin' too. 11th & Quaker.

There was also a Kips at 26th and Harvard....Which is now Village Inn....Formerly Helmuts Alpine Kitchen.....

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Family Style Restaurants

Served the food family style, plate of chicken, mashed potatoes, real homemade gravy.  

Scrumptious comfort food.

SLEEPY HOLLOW on South Lewis

SUTPHEN'S One at 41st and Hudson, later

Sutphen's Bar B Que our east in the industrial park off of Garnett & Pine.

Sutphen's Bar B Que existed on Main in Jenks until about a year ago when it was bought out by Big Daddy's

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SOL'S RANCHER Steak House at 33rd and Harvard

Circa 1960

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Ike's Chili 31st and Harvard



Ike's is still open on East Admiral west of Sheridan.  Closed for the summer re-opens Sept 10th, 2007.

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Pancake Place 11th and Utica

Building with the white roof with the antenna looking point on it on the right upper corner. You can almost make out that giant Pancake Place sign with the syrup pouring on the pancakes, in front.  

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I used to eat at what locals called the original Black-Eyed Pea in Dallas on Cedar Springs & Oaklawn.  I believe that was Gene and Phil's first restaurant.  

Black-eyed Pea is still going strong in Texas, as are most businesses there.  They also have locations in Colorado.  

Wonder whey they are no longer in Tulsa, or Oklahoma?

http://www.theblackeyedpea.com/

They didn't close. They were all converted to the Delta Cafe brand, which are known as Dixie Cafe outside of Oklahoma. I guess the two are related.

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COPPER KETTLE 11TH & MAIN TULSA

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COPPER KETTLE 11TH & MAIN TULSA

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quote:Originally posted by AMP

Garfield's is another Oklaoma owned chain run by Vince Orza the founder.  I have seen his presentation he once gave on the benefits of locating business in the Oklaoma.  

They are owned by Eateries, Inc who also own the Pepperoni Grill and Garcia's chains among others.  



Garfields is another restaurant that is still open in Oklahoma City and the owner Eateries, Inc. operates full-service restaurant chains in 26 states, but none left open in Tulsa.  Wonder why that is?

http://www.garfields.net/map/oklahoma.htm
http://www.garfields.net/

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Eateries-Inc-Company-History.html

Well, Garfield's was terrible. That might be one reason.

AMP, I heard on NPR that Tulsa has more restaurants per capita than any other city in the nation, and Oklahoma City is either first or second for fast food places per capita. There is a market for restaurant, you make it sound like there are no places to eat out.

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Ashby's Cafe Near 11th and Hudson.  Close to where McCloums was.  

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The orginal Ron's Hamburgers & Chili at 15th and Lewis building.  

Is that a hamburger restaurant in that building in this photo?  

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The orginal Ron's Hamburgers & Chili at 15th and Lewis building.  

There was a VANS Hamburgers here prior to Ron's.  Gota love old photos.  

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quote:Originally posted by swake

quote:Originally posted by AMP

Garfield's is another Oklaoma owned chain run by Vince Orza the founder.  I have seen his presentation he once gave on the benefits of locating business in the Oklaoma.  

They are owned by Eateries, Inc who also own the Pepperoni Grill and Garcia's chains among others.  



Garfields is another restaurant that is still open in Oklahoma City and the owner Eateries, Inc. operates full-service restaurant chains in 26 states, but none left open in Tulsa.  Wonder why that is?

http://www.garfields.net/map/oklahoma.htm
http://www.garfields.net/

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Eateries-Inc-Company-History.html

Well, Garfield's was terrible. That might be one reason.

AMP, I heard on NPR that Tulsa has more restaurants per capita than any other city in the nation, and Oklahoma City is either first or second for fast food places per capita. There is a market for restaurant, you make it sound like there are no places to eat out.

Here are some reports on the Most Restaurants in American per capita.  Of course as with most things, not too many are in concert with the other's reports.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=most+restaurants+per+capita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_restaurants_per_capita_in_the_United_States

Not attempting to point out anything, that is not the purpose of this thread.

I have place phone calls and sent emails to four franchise companies that have operated  restaurants that have since closed here, but are operating in different states.  Curious of the reasons they may give to why they left this market.  

If one wants to see how many restaurants there are in Tulsa, simply turn to the yellow pages in one of the many Yellow Pages in the assorted phone directories avaiable in Tulsa.

Quantity and Quality are two completly different things however.    

We are simply remembering quality restaurants that most of us enjoyed at one time or another.  Granted there were fewer of them, but they had some very tasty treats and some good wholesome food.

One could start a thread of "People's favorite reataurants Now and Then" I suppose to judge if what is being offered today is comprable with what we had in the past.  By the numbers on this thread I would submit most middle age native Tulsan's and folks that have lived here for a decent amount of time miss some of the long time restaurants we enjoyed back in the day.  

This gives posters a sounding board to talk about those times.  I totally enjoyed the story about the two glasses at Frankenstein's Roast Beef Sandwhch restaurant of the small and large beverage glasses.  They held the same amount as told by the person that was the dishwasher at one time.  I could picture him pouring the dishwater out of one glass into the other to see just how much more pop you got if you bought a large.  And shazam it was the same!  I doubt if the owners ever knew that. It was a great story.

Oh, here is another.
 
THE HOP HAMBURGERS 4th & SHERIDAN

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Elmos was the place on the SE corner of 15th and Yale.  We had a running Sat morning tradeoff between Elmos and Callahans at 32nd and Harvard (now Phills).