OKC Underground Podcast: Alex Rodriguez and Enoon

OKC Underground Podcast: Alex Rodriguez and Enoon

Enoon Cafe [https://enooncafe.com/] is one of the latest additions to the rapidly developing Capitol Hill District [https://www.historiccapitolhill.com/], or, as it's been known for years, Calle Dos Cinco. We were naturally intrigued to hear about a new coffee shop that was leaning into Mexican flavors and aesthetic -- including a revisioned Diego Rivera-esque mural on the east wall, but really, I went for the horchata latte, and along the way discovered the banana licuado.

OKC Underground Podcast: Matt and Wakana Sebacher

Tamashii Ramen House [https://tamashiiokc.com/] opened in the original Midtown location in June 2015, and they were immediately busy. That year was pivotal for OKC's food scene, especially in terms of Asian food, because while the Sebachers were opening Tamashii, Chef Jeff Chanchaleune [https://maderlaokitchen.com/] and 84 Hospitality [https://www.84hospitality.com/] founder Rachel Cope were rolling out Project Slurp in the Plaza District [https://plazadistrict.org/], a series of pop-up ramen dinners that were wildly popular, and were the basis for what would become Goro Ramen. Restaurant quality ramen was rare before 2015, but as the Sebachers were to learn, OKC was ready for it.

OKC Underground Podcast: Chris McKenna

Behind every great meal is a beard that created the recipes. This beard has created some of the best meals in OKC for a long time and now he's launching something new.

OKC Underground Podcast: Courtney Mankin

Courtney Mankin is president of and partner in The Social Order Dining Collective [https://www.thesocialorder.com/], the company that includes The Jones Assembly [https://www.thejonesassembly.com/] and Spark [https://www.eatatspark.com/], as well as franchise locations of Fuzzy's [https://www.fuzzystacoshop.com/], and Dave's Hot Chicken [https://daveshotchicken.com/]. For the past two years, she's participated in a Leadership OKC [https://www.lokc.org/] hospitality panel at Jones, and in both cases, I've been uber impressed by her grasp of the issues and her ability to articulate complex ideas clearly. I asked her to come on the episode to talk about the numbers that matter in restaurants, which we get to in the second half, but her story is interesting enough that we barely got to the ostensible main point, which is completely my fault, and honestly, completely fine given the conversation.

OKC Underground Podcast: Cody Wilson

Cody Wilson [https://www.instagram.com/back_to_back_dumps/] is the former owner of George's Liquor and current co-owner of Modern Liquor, but for this episode, he's the guy who is the new brand ambassador for Prairie With Love, the line of Delta 9 beverages from Prairie Artisan Ales [https://prairieales.com/].