OKC's Dougla Kitchen dish named one of the best in the U.S. by Eater
Oklahoma City's James Beard Award-winning chef Andrew Black is gaining national attention once again after one of his dishes at Dougla Kitchen was named to Eater's 2026 Restaurant Dishes of the Year. The list, released Tuesday, Nov. 10, names restaurant dishes across the country as the best in the land, according to the site's editors who "ate in hundreds of restaurants across the country," and crafted a list of just five of those dishes that stood out most. Black's island curry crab and callaloo dip made the list, joining dishes from restaurants spread across the country in Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland and Nashville, Tenn. "The only thing about Oklahoma City that feels even vaguely reminiscent of the Caribbean is the sheet-pan-flat horizon. And yet, inside a gaping industrial dining room downtown, there’s Dougla Kitchen, where diners sip fruity rum drinks out of plastic bags, and acclaimed chef Andrew Black digs deep in his past to bring OKC locals a taste of his Indo-Jamaican upbringing," writes Eater's brand director Lesley Suter. "I fully admit this Midwestern-born, California-raised girl doesn’t encounter ruddy callaloo greens as often as she’d like (my hunch is neither do most Oklahomans). No matter. What Black manages to
