The Jones Assembly
Film Row
The Jones Assembly is Oklahoma City's most celebrated restaurant and live music venue — a 1,500-capacity converted 1920s warehouse in the Film Row district that combines excellent farm-to-table dining with a major live music calendar. Regularly booking national touring acts alongside superb food and cocktails, The Jones Assembly represents the new Oklahoma City — a confident, cosmopolitan city that has leveraged NBA success, architecture investment, and food culture to position itself as one of the most exciting mid-size cities in America.
Coop Aleworks Oklahoma City
Crown Heights OKC
Coop Aleworks is Oklahoma City's most celebrated craft brewery — a taproom producing the outstanding F5 IPA and other award-winning Oklahoma ales for OKC's growing craft beer community. Oklahoma City's extraordinary transformation from an oil town to one of America's most economically dynamic mid-size cities has been accompanied by a remarkable craft food and beverage renaissance that Coop leads in the brewing category.
Hutch & Harris Oklahoma City Lounge
Film Row OKC
Oklahoma City's Film Row entertainment district has emerged as one of the city's most creative gathering places — a beautifully preserved 1920s-1940s film distribution warehouse district transformed into Oklahoma City's most artistically interesting bar and entertainment corridor. The Film Row Collective's concentration of outstanding independent bars, cocktail lounges, and creative businesses creates an entertainment experience that reflects OKC's extraordinary civic renaissance.
Stonecloud Brewing Oklahoma City Bar
Downtown Oklahoma City
Stonecloud Brewing is Oklahoma City's most innovative craft brewery — a downtown OKC institution producing outstanding ales that have helped establish Oklahoma City as one of the Great Plains' most craft-beer-forward cities. OKC's remarkable downtown renaissance and Stonecloud's consistent production of outstanding beer create a brewery taproom of genuine Oklahoma craft culture significance.
Prairie Wolf Spirits Distillery Oklahoma
Midtown Oklahoma City
Prairie Wolf Spirits is Oklahoma's most celebrated craft distillery — an Oklahoma City institution producing outstanding whiskeys and gins that reflect the remarkable Oklahoma frontier heritage. Oklahoma's extraordinary history (the Land Run of 1889, where 50,000 settlers raced to claim land at noon on April 22, 1889, is one of the most dramatic events in American frontier history) and Prairie Wolf's exceptional craft spirits create a distillery tasting room of genuine Oklahoma frontier cultural significance.
COOP Ale Works Oklahoma City Bar
Oklahoma City Craft Beer
COOP Ale Works is Oklahoma's most pioneering craft brewery — one of the first Oklahoma craft breweries to achieve statewide distribution. COOP's remarkable role in establishing Oklahoma as a craft beer state (it was illegal to sell beer with more than 3.2% alcohol by weight in Oklahoma until 2018) and its consistent production of outstanding ales create a brewery taproom of genuine Oklahoma craft beer historical significance.
Valkyrie OKC Cocktail Bar Oklahoma
Midtown Oklahoma City
Valkyrie is Oklahoma City's most acclaimed craft cocktail bar — a Midtown OKC institution presenting outstanding craft cocktails that have helped establish Oklahoma City as one of the Great Plains' most sophisticated cocktail markets. OKC's remarkable restaurant and bar scene transformation and Valkyrie's extraordinary cocktail program create a lounge of genuine Oklahoma cocktail culture significance.
Bricktown OKC Canal Cocktail Lounge
Bricktown Oklahoma City
Bricktown Oklahoma City's canal cocktail scene is the most dramatically transformed entertainment destination on the Great Plains — a former warehouse district where the extraordinary $36 million canal project (opened 2000) and the remarkable Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark create a waterfront entertainment environment of considerable Oklahoma urban renaissance significance.
The Venue Oklahoma City Cocktail Scene
Midtown OKC 23rd District
Oklahoma City's Midtown cocktail scene represents one of the most dramatic urban reversals in American history — a city that was voted one of the worst in America in 1990 and has since invested $2.2 billion in civic improvements through its MAPS (Metropolitan Area Projects) initiatives, creating outstanding cocktail bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues as part of the most ambitious urban renewal program in the American South.
Classen 10 Penn Oklahoma City Lounge
Midtown Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City's Classen-10-Penn corridor serves the Midtown entertainment district with outstanding cocktail bars and restaurants. OKC's remarkable diversity (the city has one of the largest Vietnamese-American communities in the South, an extraordinary Native American arts community, and a rapidly growing Hispanic community) creates a cocktail lounge culture reflecting the most diverse and unexpected Great Plains urban environment.