When it comes to my favorite meals—the foods that I truly admire and, sadly, covet—there are three distinct styles that I hold in high culinary esteem. Of course, my own foodborne heritage of Mexican and Indigenous eats take the two top spots, but the one genre that most people don’t reckon on is the deep blues of Soul Food.
To my shamelessly seasoned tongue, Southern food by Oklahoman standards is the truest Soul Food around, and the proof is a new restaurant in Midwest City with the solid feel of mama’s kitchen but in a sleek storefront called—what else—Auntie’s Soul Food, 101 N. Douglas Blvd, Suite Q.
Outside the front door of Auntie’s, my mouth started watering for that unmistakable taste as a lone woman sitting by the window devoured a piece of fried fish—catfish, it looked like. I licked my lips, wantonly gulped, and walked right in.