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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.

  1. OKC Underground with Cally Johnson

    2D AGO

    OKC Underground with Cally Johnson

    California-born Cally Johnson is currently the executive chef at Lorena Southern Twist, Lori Burson's Midtown sister restaurant to Stella Modern Italian. She came back to Oklahoma after a long hiatus in California to help Burson with her Southern concept. This necessitated Johnson digging into a genre of food she knew a little about, because growing up in Bakersfield, California means you are exposed to Okie cookie from when our great and great great grandparent fled the Dust Bowl for the green valleys of California's agriculture belt. In this episode, Johnson gives us an overview of her surprisingly fascinating and diverse backstory, including her time as a Christian music sensation, although she'd probably quibble about "sensation." She came to cheffing later in life, and quickly established herself as a creative wizard of sorts, and along the way she and Chef Kathryn Mathis started Big Truck Tacos. Her CJ's green chile pork taco is still the only gringo taco to haunt my dreams.

    57 min
  2. OKC Underground with Andy Bruch and Superfly

    FEB 12

    OKC Underground with Andy Bruch and Superfly

    Chef Andy Bruch is an Iowa native who made his culinary reputation in Denver. We ate at his Point Easy last time we were in Denver, and it was the best meal we had that trip, so it was great to see 5280 had the same level of respect for his spot as we did. When we learned Bruch was coming to OKC to open the first of at least two concepts, we were understandably excited, and the food at Superfly has justified our excitement, especially the burger. Dear lord -- get the burger!

    41 min
  3. OKC Underground with Jeff Dixon

    JAN 28

    OKC Underground with Jeff Dixon

    It's rare that I sit down with an operator or chef and don't know anything about their backstory, but such was the case with Provision Concepts founder and CEO Jeff Dixon. To be clear, I've known him for more than a decade but we've always just talked business, so I was very curious to hear about his upbringing. (Weatherford? Weatherford. Who is from Weatherford?) Once we get the bio, including his history with Hal Smith Restaurants, we get to what is clearly one of the more successful hospitality companies in the state, one that will shortly be in four states: Oklahoma, Colorado (already open), Texas (this year), and Arizona (this year). He has new openings in Tulsa later this year, but he also has much good to say about OKC's urban core and the corner where it all started.

    51 min
  4. OKC Underground Podcast: Best New Restaurants 2025 and New for 2026

    12/30/2025

    OKC Underground Podcast: Best New Restaurants 2025 and New for 2026

    This is a year-end recap more than anything, but we wanted to take some time to talk through our list of Best New Restaurants and look at what's coming for 2026. James Frazier finally gets behind the mic and contributes to this episode, so you have that year-end perk if you listen. And since we're wrapping up the year, here are the numbers that matter.

    1h 4m
  5. OKC Underground Podcast with Eric Smith

    12/17/2025

    OKC Underground Podcast with Eric Smith

    Eric Smith is the mastermind behind The Crown and The Crown Room, which happens to be one of the most amazing dining experiences in Oklahoma. In this episode we talk about food, the restaurant industry, Michelin Stars and influencers as well as a host of other topics.

    55 min
  6. OKC Underground Podcast with Rachel Cope

    12/10/2025

    OKC Underground Podcast with Rachel Cope

    You know the pizza, the ramen, the burgers and now the Italian. Now meet the Rachel Cope.

    42 min
  7. OKC Underground Podcast: Bryan Kerr and Total Wine

    12/04/2025

    OKC Underground Podcast: Bryan Kerr and Total Wine

    Bryan Kerr is the owner of Moore Liquor, which, to use a phrase of his, is in the "blast radius of Total Wine" in Moore. The chain behemoth opened their first Oklahoma location in September, and the impact on Kerr's business was immediate, as it was on all small operators in its immediate vicinity. It's likely to scoop up regulars and occasional visitors well beyond Moore, though. As a fan of all things local -- especially local ownership -- I was curious about its impact on Moore Liquor, because just as the alcohol laws changes in 2018 had a net negative effect on local package stores, so too will Total Wine. The reasons are largely economic, but there are other motives for people changing up their habits, including our culture's weird obsession with convenience.

    48 min
  8. OKC Underground Podcast: Taylor Desjarlais

    11/12/2025

    OKC Underground Podcast: Taylor Desjarlais

    Chef Taylor Desjarlais left OKC right before the COVID lockdown after successful stints at several spots in the metro including Café Cuvée in the Ambassador Hotel and Chae, which remains one of the most painfully missed spots in town. A heads up that this episode contains a frank discussion of addiction and suicide in the hospitality industry. Desajarlais agreed to talk about these subjects, at least where his path intersected these two seemingly epidemic issues in the industry, and it's worth noting up front that he left OKC to enter a treatment program. After completing the program, he moved to a sober living center in Houston, where he continued to cook, but he also pursued other interests unrelated to his career, a move that helped him achieve the healing and wholeness he was seeking when he left OKC.

    45 min
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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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