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Dave Cathey2020 Beats & Bites Canceled The 2020 COOP Ale Works Beats & Bites Festival has been canceled. While this annual festival has become known as a time to come together and enjoy free concerts with some of the best food truck offerings in the state, our top priority is the health and safety of patrons, employees and the community. Feast on delicious entrees and snacks from various food trucks at Riverwind Casino's Beats & Bites music and food truck festival. Bring your appetite, family and friends to this free, family-friendly event for an evening filled with amazing live entertainment and the best food from the finest food trucks in the metro area. Colton Swon likes funnel cakes. After fairs and festivals, the sweet treats were on his list of what he’s looking forward to this summer. Along with sibling, Zach, Colton is.
Dear reader,
Thanks for bearing with us heat at The Oklahoman as we merge our former site (newsok) with TheOklahoman.com.
We finished a post-Mother’s Day podcast last week, but between the merger and the busiest storm season in years, I haven’t had a chance to post it!
Anyway, our love of mom is bound by dates. Herein you’ll hear from chefs Jonathan Krell of Patrono and Shelby Sieg of The Pritchard; legendary local caterer and co-owner of Ned’s Starlight Lounge Ned Shadid; Kitchen at Commonplace and Commonplace Books partners Chris Castro and Ben Nockels. The common subject among all these conversations is mom.
Enjoy!
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3Sixty freshens its menu
Chef Beth Lyon is still about a month away from launching her Black Cat concept at The Collective, but in the she’s been plenty busy helping 3Sixty Restaurant and Bar atop Founders Tower with a little menu refresh.
Among the new she items for bar consumption are a Burrata Melon Salad, Tempura Fishsticks, and a Boar Burger to go along with Calamari, Shrimp Cocktail, Shrimp and Gouda Dip, flatbreads in barbecue chicken and Alfredo, a tenderloin sandwich, Crab Poppers, and Grilled Avocado.
I have tried both the Burrata Melon and the Tempura Fishsticks, and they are terrific. Burrata is simply sublime. Add some fresh melon, prosciutto and orange-blossom vinaigrette and you’ve got a Schedule 1 narcotic. The “fishsticks” are made of marinated ahi, which are tempura-battered and fried. They are served with miso honey, jalapeno and cilantro. Bar bites that ideal are a rare breed.
Among the new entrees are a Turmeric-crusted Mahi Mahi, Wild Boar Pasta and Fried Chicken Thighs. That last item is a confit of chicken, removed from the bone, and batter-fried.
Magic is the only word I can come up with to describe the chicken. Perhaps it’s changed since I tried it in its early conception, but I doubt it. Either way, working out how to make fried chicken out of classic French technique is genius.
The pasta dish is a dazzling Bolognese. A true crowd-pleaser for the less adventurous. Don’t be scared off by the boar. It’s just pork, y’all. As for the Mahi, if the question is whether you tried try it, the answer is yes. Served with orzo with kalamata olives and sun-dried tomatoes, the dish is ideal for the coming summer.
To celebrate turning two this month, 3Sixty is shaving 20% off most of the food menus the rest of the week.
East Coast Style
As chef/owner of two Rococo locations and The Manhattan downtown, Bruce Rinehart is used to putting out fires.
But last Tuesday, he had something happen that required actually calling the Oklahoma City Fire Department.
“I’ve been a little upside-down,” Rinehart texted in the aftermath of a car slamming into the front of his restaurant
That’s right, when the dust and ballast had cleared from a three-car pile-up during rush hour on Pennsylvania Avenue, Rococo was wearing white two-door in its entryway. The driver was taken to a local hospital for minor injuries, but Rococo was left to clean up the mess.
The restaurant incurred no structural damage, so Rinehart was able to carry through with service the same night and hasn’t had to close.
“What can I say? Someone needed a crab cake so bad they drove through the front door.”
Bruce assures me that despite the mess still hanging around the front door, all is well inside and I can assure you the crab cakes are still the best in town. Drop by and see him, and he might just tell you the whole story.
Quick Bites
Riverwind Casino’s COOP Ale Works Beats & Bites Festival returns June 8 with a live concert from Shenandoah and a fleet of food trucks from 6 to 10 p.m.
Beats & Bites Festival is a free, outdoor event for families in the casino’s west parking lot with inflatable bounce-houses, and face-painting. COOP Ale Works will also have a variety of seasonal and signature craft beers on tap for mom and dad.
Food trucks scheduled to attend include 2 Cajuns Express, Amici en Movimento, Bambu, Chef Rays, Coit’s, Cowboys and Angels, Creek Bottom Burgers, Dippin’ Dots, dOugh MG, El Kiosko Café, Filipino Fusion, Gilty Pleasures, I Don’t Know & I Don’t Care, Kona Ice, Let’s Do Greek, MacTastic, MMP Concessions, Sadie J’s, Saucee Sicilian, Smokin’ Oak Pizza, Sugar Shack, The Flying Pig, The Fried Taco, Tropical Smoothie Café, Whole Latte Pie, and Yum Pig.
The festival returns July 6 and Aug. 10. For more information on Beats & Bites, click here. ...
Mary Eddy’s at the 21c Hotel in Film Row officially opens the Train Shed on Saturday. To celebrate the opening of the seasonal covered patio and bar area, Mary Eddy’s will have live music, specialty cocktails, bar bites and a table tennis tournament. ...
Check back on Friday to find out who the first tenants will be at Parlor OKC.
Related PhotosThe Burratta Melon salad is new to the menu at 3Sixty Restaurant and Bar. [Dave Cathey/The Oklahoman]
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Cody Canada recognizes the fire when he sees it, whether it’s burning in his own sons or in a young face in the crowd at one of his shows.
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“We were in Colorado the other night and Widespread Panic has a bar there, and we were just having some beers and eating some food. And the guy up there singing didn’t know anybody in the room, and he looked at Dierks and goes, ‘Hey, you look like a shredder. You wanna get up and sing a song, play a song?’ He just has it. He has that look, and he got up and played and I told (my wife) Shannon, I said, ‘Man, when I was 13 years old, I was in Yukon with a cowboy hat on standing on the side of the stage begging the band to let me get up and play a Bob Wills song.’ He’s doing exactly what I was doing at the exact same time,” said Canada, whose two sons, Dierks, 13, and Willy, 11, are budding musicians.
“Kyle Nix from the Turnpike Troubadours … he came to our show in Stillwater when he was 9 years old, and now look at him. There’s always gonna be a kid out there that’s hungry … and I’d rather play an all-ages show these days than play any bar.”
The red dirt singer, songwriter and guitarist and his band, The Departed, will return to their home state to headline the latest installment of the COOP Ale Works Beats & Bites Festival, a free, outdoor event for families, Saturday night in Riverwind Casino’s west parking lot.
Rock school
It’s telling that Canada, the former frontman of the seminal red dirt band Cross Canadian Ragweed, sounds like a man at peace, even when he’s driving a vanload of adolescents to the airport.
Just a few years ago, Canada said he was losing his voice and dealing with upheaval in his post-Ragweed band The Departed. With their two sons so interested in learning music, his wife and manager, Shannon Canada, suggested they open a School of Rock musical school in their adopted hometown of New Braunfels, Texas.
“Before we got the green light, we kicked it around for about two years. ... Got the go-ahead from the corporate office and here we are, 117 kids later,' he said.
While his wife was working to open their music school, Canada quit smoking cigarettes to save his voice and reworked The Departed as a power trio with bassist/singer Jeremy Plato, his bandmate since Ragweed recorded its first album back in the 1990s, and drummer Eric “Waldo” Hansen, a longtime pal from Stillwater. He reunited with longtime pal Mike McClure, who produced The Departed’s 2018 album “3,” and hit the road with renewed enthusiasm.
Circle of life
His dates with The Departed aren’t the only shows on Canada’s calendar these days. He recently accompanied the New Braunfels School of Rock Haus Band to gigs in Chicago and at Milwaukee’s massive Summerfest.
“There’s three kids in the van right now … all exactly the age that I was whenever got started, and it’s crazy to think about it in that perspective,” Canada said while driving the group to the San Antonio Airport. “Either you burn out or you become the old man, and I would rather become the old man. I mean, I’m only 43 years old, but in 10 years, I’ll be 53 years old and then I will officially be the old man. And it’s gonna start, because they’re getting younger, but when they look up to us ... we have a job to do.”
In the words of some music fans, Canada won the Internet recently when he celebrated the release of rising Texas country star Koe Wetzel’s new album with a “Lion King” “Circle of Life” meme featuring Wetzel as baby Simba and himself as Rafiki.
“It just feels like everything is coming full circle and I’m very, very at peace with it,” he said.
COOP Ale Works Beats & Bites Festival
With: Live music by Banana Seat and Cody Canada & The Departed, food trucks, children’s activities and fireworks.
When: 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday.
Where: West parking lot of Riverwind Casino, 1544 State Highway 9, Norman.
Admission: Free.
Information: www.riverwind.com/entertain/beats-bites-stage.
Related PhotosCody Canada & The Departed is, from left, Jeremy Plato, Canada and Eric “Waldo” Hansen. [Photo provided]
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Brandy McDonnell, also known by her initials BAM, writes stories and reviews on movies, music, the arts and other aspects of entertainment. She is NewsOK’s top blogger: Her 4-year-old entertainment news blog, BAM’s Blog, has notched more than 1... Read more ›