2 Best Restaurants in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

For more than a century, this restaurant has thrived on its reputation for serving food as consistently reliable as its reputation for a colorful history. What started in 1910 as a café to serve hungry cowboys, ranch hands, and cattle haulers became a pumphouse for "liquid delights" during Prohibition Days. By the 1940s, Cattlemen's emerged as a gathering place for gamblers and their cohorts. As the building size grew, however, so did the restaurant's popularity among the general public and numerous celebrities. What hasn't changed is the steaks: Midwest-raised, corn-fed, U.S.D.A. Prime- and Choice-grade beef distinctively good enough to be featured in magazines and on TV. The menu is, of course, a vegetarian's nightmare.

If you're looking for an old-time soda shop, keep your eyes peeled for the 66-foot-tall neon soda bottle along Route 66, just off Exit 141. Inside this Oklahoma icon, burgers, shakes, and malts (made with hand-dipped Blue Bell ice cream) are slathered with nostalgia. But if you want to sample soda, you'll either have to stay a long, long time or you'll have to keep coming back to try all 600 flavors! POPS's collection of carbonated beverages, curated with creativity, includes flavors like Pumpkin Pie soda by Maine Root, Prickly Pear from Sioux City Soda, and Peanut Butter & Jelly by Lester's Fixin's at Rocket Fizz. Tuesdays are Burger Dayz—half-price burgers all day.