Inspiring/ unique/ cozy food and atmosphere! The Wild Fork toadily owns up to its name. I'm going to channel my inner wild fork for this review; you have been warned.
Are you visiting Tulsa? Are you shopping in Utica Square? Are you taking your out-of-town family out to eat? It's time to get funky and genuinely local - eat at The Wild Fork.
Disney movie-like magnolia trees and the Utica Square gardens surround the entrance and patio space. This is one of those magical places where dining inside is just as magical as outside (weather permitting). Prime people watching on the patio with the smell of tulips. Inside, the quarky lighting will catch your eye and bring it to all of the expressionistic art hung.
There is a phenomenal breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu served Mon.-Sat. My favorite of the three is breakfast menu. Why? The coffee is delicious and overflows my cup. On the huge three egg omelet I ask for egg-whites with spinach, shallots, cheese and potatoes. The sourdough french toast is something someone always gets at may table and it always looks stunning.
For dinner, begin with a lentil side order salad. It's funky AND fresh.
Then, proceed to the Red Cornmeal Crusted Chicken. Trust me. The proportion is large so have some will-power to put some in a doggy-bag (do people still use that term?) so you don't need to wobble out.
My fork is wild here. Yours will be, too. Holla.
Tasty offerings!
Onions yum! Â Blackened cat fish sandwich best ever consider I don't recall eating cat fish in the last 20 years! Â Service may be the best in town. Seamless and prompt with respect for b day surprise wishes. Â
Tea room style! Â Wish they had sustainable caviar and toast points teamed with Vodka! Â Bathrooms awkward!
I have mix feelings about the place.
I rave about it because it is an interesting restaurant in Tulsa. Â They have so many different items on the menu to try. Â And they have changing specials.
However, as I order things on the menu, there's just something odd about them - Â delicious yet peculiar.
we had the 'shrimp and corn fritters' as an appetizer. Â the fritters were more like a 6 inch pancake. Â and the name said shrimp 'and' corn so i was expecting the shrimps to be mixed in the fritters instead of being on top. Â maybe a better name is 'shrimp with corn fritters'. Â tasty but not the shape i was expecting.
Two days ago they have red fish with some curry sauce and scallops with some citrus on top and slices of cucumber on the bottom. Â i had 3 scallops on the plate with a side of steamed mix veggies. Â it was filling. Â but why an asian spin on the items. Â and if the fish is perfect why drenched it with curry sauce. Â now i'm thinking the fish was a suspect. Â simply grilled should suffice with curry rice or curry potatoes perhaps.
also i asked that the veggies to have no salt and no butter. Â and that's how they made it.
service is amazing. Â i dropped my napkin and as i was picking it up, the server handed me a new one.
and bec of those last two things, they are on 4 stars.
in any case, whenever i travel to Tulsa, I definitely go to this place to check out what's new.
ERMEGHERD, WILD FORK. YOU'RE KILLING ME.
My experience at The Wild Fork was a prime example of where the service irritated me enough to warrant a lowered rating.
I was meeting some friends here with my husband. My husband and I were seated and we waited over 10 minutes before anyone came to our table to ask if we wanted coffee. C'mon. This should happen immediately. Strike one.
Once our friends met us (and we had our coffee) we perused the menu. I decided on the hash (eggs, cheese, onions, bacon, sausage, ham) with no ham. Just bacon and sausage. I ordered it with a side of biscuits and gravy. We placed our orders and waited over 30 minutes for the food to get to our table. It wasn't crowded. Strike two.
Naturally, my hash came loaded with ham and with no biscuits and gravy. I gave up on my ham protest and wildly tried to flag our waitress down for my biscuits. Strike three.
The food was good (how can a pile of cheese and eggs and meats not be good?), but I was really kind of annoyed by the end of this meal. Biscuits and gravy were to die for, though. THAT'S worth coming back for....but maybe get it to go....
Food was ok. Could have been better. Setting is so beautiful, it almost made the sub-par service bearable. But not quite. Appetizer only arrived after entrees because I brought it to our inattentive waitress's attention--sans advertised bread and lukewarm when it finally arrived. Overall a waste of what could be an incredible experience.
Review Source:After working there for two years when I was in high school, I can say I've eaten almost everything on their breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu. Â Although I feel a twinge of guilt not giving them higher than 3-stars, I manage to sleep at night knowing they have a lot to improve on.
The food itself is tasty. Â People swear to the breakfast, and I can say it is probably the best menu they offer. Â You can order a typical breakfast, but the special dishes are why breakfast is so good here. Â The tequitos are my favorite on the menu. Â Don't expect to finish these by yourself unless you're eating it as an early lunch, same goes with the omelets. Â The cheese grits are to die for. Â I never liked grits, but the creamy texture and subtle flavors are a must try.
For lunch or dinner, try the black bean dip appetizer, it's a lot of food so for two it might even be a meal, but it's a great taster for a large group of people.
Lunch has become a little overpriced in my opinion. Â I visited for lunch a few weeks ago and price hikes are as large as $2.00 for sandwiches since I had last eaten there. Â There is a variety of choice for lunch from salads, to sandwiches, to pastas, to full on entree meals (chicken friend steak, salmon). Â My personal favorite is the house salad with shrimp and their homemade honey dijon dressing. Â Don't skip on the beef tenderloin sandwich either! Â
Dinner, in my opinion, can be overpriced for certain meals, but any of the meat dishes is crafted well. Â The duck souffle and the lamb are my favorite, although people like the beef medallions. Â The meat comes well seasoned, although sometimes it can be too salty. Â Food quality isn't consistent from night to night as they sometimes have different chefs do different things. Â You also used to get two sides, but they cut down to one. Â A shame since they're not worth paying extra for.
If you like chocolate, try their chocolate in excess cake. Â I've never had anything like it before and still haven't. Â It's magical. Â You will want to share as it is very decadent.
They have a nice patio in the middle of Utica Square, and the inside is always decorated with a local artist's work. Â A very trendy, yet classic feel.
Service can also be spotty. Â During breakfast and lunch, waiters can be crowded and you don't get fast or friendly service. Â This is the area they need the most improvement in. Â Overall, the experience isn't worth the prices, especially after the price hikes. Â You can get pasta or salads for a reasonably priced dinner, but who wants to pay $15 for a salad with chicken? Â
Another thing that has always annoyed me is their green initiative, using biodegradable boxes and forks. Â Nothing wrong with being green, but don't charge your customers for it. Â It's annoying to see a $0.35 charge on your bill just to take your food home.
Overall a good restaurant and I would recommend it for the food, if you have extra money to spend and don't mind a relatively negligent waitstaff.
Overall, it's actually one of the better breakfast places I've had in town. (I haven't experience the dinner or lunch service). Has a little more flavor and a larger portion than Queenies on the opposite street. Really like the jams and jellies that come with the toast.
However, they really need to renovate the interior. It's like you stepped back into 1994, has a vibe that makes you think of a coffee shop from 'Friends' or old school MTV. It has a lot of potential, but they need to rework their design.
Food : mediocre for the price. It was ok, nothing to write home about.
Service: Attentive but it took a long time for the food to arrive. Waitress offered us bread , that took a while and we had to remind her.
Will I come back? Â Probably when I had to meet someone there and they chose the place.
I have never had a bad meal here. Â Wait, surely I can do better than that.
I love their 5 spice fried catfish. Â It would also be good as their salad offering. Â I also wish they would serve the chicken fried steak at dinner. Â I guess we can't have everything.
My service has always been great. Â The place gets slammed at lunch, so I go with a wait in mind. Â
My only problem with this place is that I forget about it and always kick myself for not getting back sooner. Â I am really surprised at the low reviews, I deflinitely recommend it.
I came here for a business dinner and was very happy with the service and food. I had a pasta with cornmeal chicken and it was delicious. I also had a margarita with some chili in it and it is one of my new fav drinks in Tulsa. We had calamari and some type of dip as well as appetizers that were great too. Yum yum!
Review Source:My friends and I went for breakfast, there were 5 of us and after waiting an hour and watching everyone before AND after us be seated, eat and leave we were finally seated. On the way to the table I stopped the manager and told her that we were disappointed due to waiting an hour and being overlooked. Her answer, in a rude tone of voice was "it is really hard to seat five people, you have to push two tables together." Gosh, if I had known how difficult it was to seat 5 whole people I would have excluded my least favorite friend from joining us *sarcasm*. Also, the food was not good. Due to the hour we waited they rushed us to order our food before we were allowed to order our drinks, (the kitchen wanted to switch to lunch). I ordered a breakfast scramble, it was cold, the dish was too salty and drowning in half melted cheese. I am of the opinion that a restaurant should want business, not that I should feel some sort of privilege by being "allowed" to eat there. Had the manager treated me kindly and apologized for what happened I would go back. She didn't and I won't. Â Save your money and go to stone horse, dilly deli, blue moon, old school bagel...pretty much anywhere else in Tulsa. If I had been able to leave zero stars I would have.
Review Source:Wild Fork used to be my  favorite place to eat in Tulsa.  My most recent experience has convinced me to go elsewhere. Â
Recently the summer weather broke (that is, under 90 degrees) and we went for an evening meal on the patio. Â I ordered one of the specials, a barramundi on a bed of spinach. Â I ordered it without bacon. Â I do want to say that our server was cordial and timely. However....
The plate was set down in front of me and there was bacon on the fish and in the spinach. Â I let the server know and she took the dish back to the kitchen. Â It came back out a few minutes later - too soon to have prepared a new plate. Â My conclusion - they took the fish scraped off the bacon, threw some new spinach on the plate, put the de-baconed fish back on the plate and smothered it in bleu cheese crumbles. Â The problems with this? Â 1) I do not eat bacon and a new piece of fish should have been cooked, 2) the bleu cheese completely overshadowed the fish. Â In other words, you could not taste the fish at all. Â
All in all, Wild Fork provided a meal that was sub par from a kitchen that apparently is more interested in quick turn than proper preparation. I will be looking for other dining alternatives in Tulsa.
I came to Tulsa for work, and my team and I came here for an early lunch based on a client recommendation.
I had the BLT, which was pretty tasty! Fat strips of bacon, fresh L and T, and the chipotle mayo was a nice touch. Â I hate when restaurants add too much mayo, but Wild Fork had a good balance.
Also, the fresh squeezed orange juice was delicious, and the side of fresh fruit was fresh!
My co-workers' dishes didn't look as good as mine, so I can't speak to their breakfast plates.. they did seem satisfied, so I'm sure you can't go too wrong.
I am in tulsa for a visit and went here with my parents. The service was so so...food was good (esp the home fries)and the coffee was pretty delicious! Â Great location, I do love Utica Square...Cool artwork and music. Â I have not been here in about 3-5 years and I noticed that they put a bar and a flat screen TV in the center room. Â The bar is cool though I am sure it adds to the crowded chaos on weekend mornings as it takes away space for tables. Â The TV? Â Bad choice Wild Fork!...what are you, a chinese buffet? Come on. Â I still love you though, don't worry, just keep making good coffee and using fresh ingredients. Â I will be back next time I'm in town.
Review Source:It's been a few years since my last dining experience at Wild Fork, so keep that in mind as you read my short review. Â Each time that I've eaten at Wild Fork, I've pushed myself away from the table satisfied and delighted with my food selection but I remember the service as being average. Â I'll probably eat there again soon to find out if my opinion changes.
Review Source:I'v eaten at The Wild Fork more times than I can count, and I have no idea why keep going back, except it's very close to my house.. Their food has consistently gotten worse over the years, and I think they just are skating on their location at this point. The one thing I could always count on was their breakfast being good, but last time I was there, that's not true anymore. Everything I had was just awful. I was there for lunch yesterday, and the soup of the day was disgusting. My friend had the Caesar salad, and it was passable, but nothing to write home about. If you want a really good caesar, go to Tucci's.
Review Source:If you go at lunch, the chicken fried steak is pretty good, but who wants to carbo-load in the middle of the day? Only if you are allowed to nap at work. They don't serve this dish for dinner, oddly enough. I haven't had anything else here that was even remotely worthy of a return trip except the breakfast pizza.
The ambiance is pretty good, the art is kind of tacky but they have tons of really awesome and distinct light fixtures. If the weather is nice you can sit outside and feel really high-class. You are dining at Utica Square, after all.
Final verdict- this place just feels like an old lady. Like moth balls and old candy.
This was a great place for the girls to take a break from shopping and have lunch. The pizza were awesome and the mediterranean burger was good too. Sitting on the patio was relaxing and fun considering the great weather that day. Champagne was a nice touch to a great ladies lunch out!
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