FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 24, 2014
Contact: Kristin Ware, Kazoo Marketing and Communications, (918) 527-0617
Tulsa’s Restaurant Week returns Sept. 12 – 20
Tulsa-area restaurants offer prix fixe specialty menus to support the Food Bank
Tulsa, Okla. – In conjunction with September’s national Hunger Action Month, area restaurants are
helping the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma fight childhood hunger in eastern Oklahoma by
participating in Tulsa’s ninth annual Restaurant Week Sept. 12 – 20.
Participating restaurants will offer prix-fixe meals and donate 10 percent of Restaurant Week menu
proceeds to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma’s Food for Kids program. Restaurant Week
proceeds will be matched by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, up to $25,000.
Restaurant Week patrons can select from a variety of fixed-priced lunch and dinner menus designed to
suit any taste and budget. Restaurants will offer lunch and brunch menus priced at $12.95 per person
for two courses or $15.95 for three courses and a three-course dinner menu at one of three varying
price points: $25 per person, $35 per person or $35 for two. Each menu features appetizer, entrée and
dessert options. For more information about menus, visit okfoodbank.org.
Tuesday, Sept. 15 is Restaurant Week Celebrity Night. On this special night, local celebrities are paired
up with participating restaurants to help greet patrons and provide information about the prix-fixe
dinner menu.
“Supporting Restaurant Week, either as a patron or as a restaurateur, is one of the easiest ways to fight
the hunger crisis facing Oklahoma,” said Libby Auld, owner of Elote and The Vault. “If you find yourself
eating out Sept. 12 to 20, get to one of the participating restaurants, order off the Restaurant Week
menu and if you’re feeling generous, donate a little extra to the cause.”
The Food Bank’s Food for Kids program specifically addresses childhood hunger and ensures foodinsecure children in our communities have a reliable resource for nutritious meals throughout the year.
The program includes the Backpack Program, which provides weekend backpacks full of food to children
in need; Free Family Farmers’ Markets, which provides fresh produce and bakery items to low income
children and their families, School Pantry Program, which allows food-insecure students to access and
choose nutritious foods they can take home, and efforts to feed children over extended school holidays,
when they don’t have access to the free and reduced meal program. To date, Restaurant Week has
raised more than $300,000 for the Food Bank’s mission of eliminating food insecurity.
“As we expand our Food for Kids program to feed more children in our community through a variety of
different programs, support in the community is crucial,” said Eileen Bradshaw, executive director of the
food bank. “Restaurant Week provides a really delicious opportunity to help ensure every child in our
community has the food they need to succeed. Together, we can solve childhood hunger.”
The event’s presenting sponsors are TulsaPeople magazine. Additional sponsors include the Omni Air
International, Frontier Produce, Wireless Technologies, TulsaFood.com, Yelp Tulsa and George Kaiser
Family Foundation.
“We look forward to Restaurant Week every year,” said Jim Langdon, publisher of TulsaPeople. “It’s a
great time to visit different restaurants and try new dishes all while giving back to such a worthy cause.”
For more information about Restaurant Week and its special prix-fixe menus, visit TulsaPeople.com or
the Tulsa Restaurant Week Facebook page.
Participating restaurants include:
Downtown
Baxter’s Interurban Grill 717 S. Houston Ave., 918-585-3134
Caz’s Chowhouse 18 E. MB Brady St., 918-588-2469
The Chalkboard 1324 S. Main St., 918-582-1964
Dilly Diner 402 E. 2nd St., 918-938-6382
El Guapo’s Downtown 332 E. 1st St., 918-382-7482
Elote Café & Catering 514 S. Boston Ave., 918-582-1403
Fassler Hall (21+) 304 S. Elgin Ave., 918-576-7898
Laffa Medi-Eastern Restaurant & Bar 111 N. Main St., 918-728-3147
McNellie’s Downtown 409 E. 1st St., 918-382-7468
Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar 201 S. Denver Ave., Suite 7, 918-879-1990
The Rusty Crane 109 N. Detroit Ave., 918-947-5454
S&J Oyster Co. 308 E. 1st St., 918-938-7933
Sisserou’s Caribbean Restaurant 107 N. Boulder Ave., Unit C, 918-576-6800
The Tavern 201 N. Main St., 918-949-9801
The Vault 620 S. Cincinnati Ave., 918-948-6761
Yokozuna Downtown 309 E. 2nd St., 918-508-7676
Brookside/Midtown
Cosmo Café 3334 S. Peoria Ave., 918-933-4848
Doc’s Wine & Food 3509 S. Peoria Ave., 918-949-3663
Florence Park Café 3144 E. 15th St., 918-619-6300
Foundations Restaurant 3717 S. Sheridan Rd., 918-828-0980
The Hen Bistro & Wine 3509 S. Peoria Ave., 918-935-3420
Hibiscus Caribbean Bar & Grill 3316 S. Peoria Ave., 918-749-4700
HopBunz Brookside 3330 S. Peoria Ave., 918-949-6595
In the Raw Brookside 3321 S. Peoria Ave., 918-744-1300
KEO Brookside 3524 S. Peoria Ave., 918-794-8200
Sonoma Bistro & Wine Bar 3523 S. Peoria Ave., 918-747-9463
Cherry Street/Utica
Andolini’s Pizzeria 1552 E. 15th St., 918-728-6111
LaVilla Restaurant at Philbrook 2727 S. Rockford Rd., 918-748-5367
Lucky’s 1536 E. 15th St., 918-592-5825
McGill’s on 21st 1560 E. 21st St., Suite 106, 918-742-8080
Palace Café 1301 E. 15th St., 918-582-4321
Queenie’s Plus 1834 Utica Sq., 918-749-3481
SMOKE on Cherry Street 1542 E. 15th St., 918-949-4440
South Tulsa
The Bistro at Seville 10021 S. Yale Ave., Suite 103, 918-296-3000
El Guapo’s on Harvard 8161 S. Harvard Ave., 918-728-7482
The French Hen 7143 S. Yale Ave., 918-492-2596
HopBunz South 7891 E. 108th St. S., Suite 10, 918-943-3304
In the Raw on the Hill 6151 S. Sheridan Rd., 918-524-0063
KEO South 8921 S. Yale Ave., 918-794-0090
McGill’s on Yale 6058 S. Yale Ave., 918-388-8080
McNellie’s South City 7031 S. Zurich Ave., 918-933-5258
Michael V’s 8222 E. 103rd St., Suite 137, 918-369-0310
The Melting Pot 300 Riverwalk Terrace, Suite 190, 918-299-8000
Oliveto Italian Bistro 8922 S. Memorial Dr., 918-994-7000
The Tropical Restaurant & Bar 8125 E. 49th St., 918-895-6433
Yokozuna on Yale 9146 S. Yale Ave., Suite 100, 918-619-6271
Broken Arrow
Bonefish Grill 4651 W. Kenosha St., 918-252-3474
In the Raw 216 S. Main St., 918-893-6111
Wagoner
The Canebrake 33241 E. 732nd Rd., 918-485-1810
About The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma
Founded in 1981, the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma is the largest private, non-profit hunger relief
organization in eastern Oklahoma that feeds the hungry through a network of 450 Partner Programs in 24 counties
in eastern Oklahoma. These programs include food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school
programs, shelters and senior citizen centers. Collectively, the Food Bank and its Partner Programs provide more
than 346,000 meals a week to those struggling with hunger in eastern Oklahoma. When you support the Food
Bank, you help all 450 Partner Programs throughout eastern Oklahoma. Visit www.okfoodbank.org for more
information.
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