Lounges in 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.