Matt Kirouac

1 week ago | 405magazine.com | Matt Kirouac

Summer in Oklahoma City is the season for road trips and lazy lake days, for ice cream cones and patios. It’s also high time for a frozen cocktail. As the temperature rises, so too does our appetite for icy drinks, and fortunately for us, OKC is teeming with crafty versions of the cold stuff. Here’s where you should be drinking — and what to order — this summer. As much a rite of passage for OU students as it is for bar-goers in need of refreshment, The Mont is the stuff of potable legend.

1 week ago | nationalgeographic.com | Matt Kirouac

When the first settlers came to the Sierra Nevada foothills in the late 1840s, they came for gold. Decades after the California Gold Rush ended in 1855, a different crop of settlers—including artists, musicians, and LGBTQ+ people—came looking for something other than precious metal. History runs deep in Nevada City, a hilly, pine-scented community of barely 3,000, which boomed in 1849 upon the arrival of early settlers like Captain John Pennington and William McCaig.

1 week ago | midwestliving.com | Matt Kirouac

Historic buildings line the streets in downtown Paducah, a Kentucky town along the Ohio River. Photo: Courtesy of Paducah Convention and Visitors Bureau Driving through the pastoral farmland of Western Kentucky, hopscotching into nearby Illinois and Missouri, I would have never guessed that one of just nine UNESCO Creative Cities in the U.S. awaited around the river bend.

2 weeks ago | plateonline.com | Matt Kirouac

In New York City, Jared Ian Stafford-Hill introduced Saint Urban, a wine-focused tasting menu concept in the Flatiron. Blue Peak Villa is a new Chinese concept inspired by the culinary lineage of the Qing Dynasty, led by Jian Wu. Santiago Perez (Cosme) launches a taqueria of his own, Santo Taco, this week in Nolita. Known for its Portuguese egg tarts, the Lisbonata pop-up went permanent in Crown Heights. Bagizza... Join for free to continue reading.

2 weeks ago | plateonline.com | Matt Kirouac

In Hawaii, Michael Arnot became the Culinary Director of Mauna Lani, Auberge Resorts Collection. In Los Angeles, The Benjamin added Bar Benjamin upstairs, with cocktails from Jason Lee (Baroo) and Chad Austin (Bootlegger Tiki). Kat Turner expanded Highly Likely cafe to Ojai. L’Ermitage Beverly Hills unveiled its reimagined rooftop, as new concepts The Arhaus Terrace and poolside Poza. Lucia brings Afro-Caribbean cuisine to Fairfax May 28, courtesy of Sam Jordan (Issima).