New Era Fine Fermentations in Tulsa

Okay so the name of this joint is pretty silly.  But I guess when you open something as specific as an all gluten-free brewery and restaurant you can call it whatever you want.   NEFF is located in downtown Tulsa and I was shocked/excited to see that it was pretty empty the night we strolled by on accounta everywhere else was jam-packed.

All the beers and food are gluten free which they accomplish by using quinoa*.    They have all the required flavors.

The place is standard warehouse turned brewery.

The chef/co-owner of the place was getting ready to shut down the kitchen but he was really nice and made us some fries.  He also gave us some soup on the house that was really good.  I should start a soup blog.  And why did I choose such a dirty menu to take a picture of?

Anyway for $4 this behemoth was delivered to us.  Soup bowl/hand for scale.

Holy cow!  That's enough fries for a naked pyramid of rugby players!  The pile was like 4 inches tall!

And they were really good.  They had sage (whatever that is) and garlic on them and oh my there were SO MANY.

I gotta tell ya every once in a while a place really stands out and not only were the people at NEFF super-friendly (even with us dragging a little kid in there) but the beer and fries were super.

This is what went back to the hotel with us.  Unbelievable.  DO IT.

*quinoa beers make you fart.  A lot.

The Gathering Place TULSA

A while back I went with the fam to this joint we Amy found online called The Gathering Place that was supposed to be amazing and FREE.  I didn't actually think they were also gonna have fries but they did so it was on!  This place is right on the riverfront and we managed to pick a weekend when Tulsa was basically getting flooded by the river.  Oops.

Amy was super smart by suggesting that we go on a Friday morning on accounta there probably would be less people.  She was right.  We had the place pretty much to ourselves for the first few hours.  It's kind of a hard joint to explain.  Imagine an amusement park/playground with no electricity.  All the fun stuff is done with action by humans.  Like paddle boats, water features that are operated by cranking and moving levers, hedge mazes, big pieces of interactive artwork, zip lines, stuff like that.  The playground climby stuff is all crazy too.  There's a platypus.

And cranes.

An elephant.

And castles (Grunion up at top right).

The Gathering Place is awesome.  And free.  You should do it.  There's a ton more stuff there too like a fancy restaurant and a museum but this is a fry blog yo.

Fries targeted.  Sorry the pic is blurry I was excited.  Did I mention the place also HAS BEER?  Noice.

$2.99 for this at a free amusement park?  Totally worth it.

They were those lightly battered frozen jobs.  Not too bad.

I liked them.  Especially with the Goose Island IPA.  DO IT.

P.S. I scared the crap out of the Grunion when he was coming down one of the slides.  Heh.