Monday, August 17, 2026 · Oklahoma City · Horizon 0–90 days
Midtown · all summer
A $50 golden-anniversary menu while the city waits on fall pizza
The Chalkboard Kitchen + Bar · 1200 N Walker Ave
Both Chalkboard rooms — Tulsa’s original turns 50 this year — are running a $50 prix fixe all summer: Wellington bites, 10-hour short rib, bread pudding with dark rum glaze. It is the most concrete thing on an otherwise thin OKC desk this week. The Oklahoman’s August 5 openings-and-closures recap is still the city’s best recent map; The Lost Ogle has not published a food review since February.
This is a thinner first edition, and it should read that way. Summer openings are already on the ground — Cajun on MacArthur, sushi on 23rd, Tuscan pasta in Paseo — and the dated things on the calendar are a Taste of Asia, Midtown’s $10 lunches, and race-night supper at Silks. No invented pop-ups.
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Local food press is light this week. The Oklahoman’s August 5 recap is the main openings file; 405 Magazine’s August Table Talk is the events file. The Lost Ogle’s food section last posted a restaurant review in February 2026. Aggregator listings for a Bungalow 23 Taco Fest and a Battle of Salsas at Northpark were not corroborated by those papers and are not in the brief.
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Scissortail Park · Saturday
Farmers Market at Scissortail Park
Saturday, Aug. 15, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. · corner of Oklahoma City Boulevard by the Promenade
The park’s own calendar: producer-only market, May–September. Produce, baked goods, meats, artisan crafts.
Saturdays · Toast & Coffee; Carletti’s / The Kentucky Club
405 Magazine’s August Table Talk is specific: $6 summer sangria at Toast & Coffee every Saturday through Labor Day, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., best on the back patio. After dinner, Carletti’s and The Kentucky Club are running Speakeasy Saturdays from 10 p.m. to midnight — live jazz, after-dinner cocktails — “all summer long.”
The first Native-owned brewery in Oklahoma opened a 2,000-square-foot expansion of its lofted lounge on August 1 — more patio, and, for the first time, a food menu: flatbreads, burgers, bison meatballs. An expanded cocktail program is still to come. Worth a Saturday walk if you have not been since the taproom-only days.
The first Italian restaurant in Paseo since the old Spaghetti Factory, in the long-empty Scratch Kitchen space. Handmade pasta, tagliatelle ragù, tableside tiramisu; lunch and dinner plus a late-night stretch Friday and Saturday. Opened this spring; still the opening The Oklahoman keeps returning to.
Opened June · 9120 N MacArthur Blvd · Tue–Thu 4–9 p.m.; Fri–Sat 4–10 p.m.
Chefs Chris McKenna and Richard Ly (the Kaizume team) overhauled the former Taqueria El Camino into one of the few locally owned Cajun and Creole rooms in the city. The Oklahoman’s July 8 “what to order” piece is still the useful menu; the August 5 recap lists it among the summer’s real openings.
Opened Feb. 14 · former Black Walnut, next to Grey Sweater
James Beard–winning chef Andrew Black’s casual Caribbean-and-Indian room — callaloo dip, tamarind-glazed goat ribs — in the old Black Walnut space. An attached lounge was promised “at a later date”; no public opening for that lounge has been published since.
Saturday, August 22 · 5–8 p.m. · doors 4:30 · 3400 NW 36th St
The Asia Society of Oklahoma’s annual tasting, performances, and exhibition at the Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Building. Official Eventbrite listing; all ages; free parking. This is the one dated food festival this month with a named local organizer.
Midtown’s returning $10 lunch specials. 405 Magazine says menus will be posted closer to the week and names Fassler Hall, The Goose Sandies & Bar, The Hall’s Pizza Kitchen, and Mexican Radio as the kind of rooms to expect. Visit OKC’s last long write-up was the February edition — do not confuse the two.
Friday–Saturday, August 21–22 · seating one hour before the 6:30 p.m. first race
The 2026 Remington Park thoroughbred season opens, which 405 Magazine notes also marks the return of Silks Restaurant on the Clubhouse level: queso, crab cakes, chicken-fried chicken, Chuck Wagon chopped steak. Arrive early.
A tableside tasting of three Booker’s small-batch bourbons that ends in The Vault — the building’s original bank vault — with bread pudding, caramel, and salted-caramel ice cream. Not a one-night event; it is the whiskey bar’s new set piece.
The organizer’s own page: exclusive plant-based plates, diners vote. Named rooms include Bistro 38, Cinnaholic, Duckie’s, Enoki Eatz, Formosa, Goro Ramen, SIYO, Woodward Pizza, and others. Not a single sitting.
Hideaway’s next Oklahoma shop — a two-story room with a covered patio across from an OnCue. Marketing director Balay Hartman told The Oklahoman they chose the site because the other Edmond room has done well, and they were aiming at fall 2026. No day-and-date has been published since the April permit story.
The same April Oklahoman piece notes a downtown Wildcat conversion with no announced date, plus Edmond Planning Commission approvals for Hawaiian Bros Island Grill and a Texas Roadhouse on Covell. Those are real filings, not openings. Left in Coming only as a watch list.
