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Food WORTH THE DRIVE ood Along with Mexican entrées, La Magia Del Trigo in Heavener serves a variety of fresh baked goods like doughnuts and pan dulce. For the fifth year running, we’ve rounded up some Alva e sundae dish is fi lled with Ardmoe HOLDER DRUG chocolate ice cream and covered in SCOUT FRESH FOODS & CAFÉ of the best road trip-worthy dishes all over the state. marshmallow topping. Like magic, the WHEN AND WHERE: Monday through Friday, ff the picturesque main square in marshmallow pulls back together after 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and cout Fresh Foods & Café in And this year, it’s all about the sugar rush. O Alva sits Holder Drug, a longtime every bite, ensuring the next spoonful will Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 513 Barnes Avenue, SArdmore started the way so many hub of community activity. In addition contain that same satisfying combination. (580) 327-3332 or holderdrug.com. wonderful things do: as an act of pure to a pharmacy, the shop contains snacks, Jim died in 2017, but his children chutzpah. A few years ago, owner Audrey gifts, and a fantastic retro lunch counter. Todd and Sally are keeping the tradition DID YOU KNOW: In 2017, Alva native Lance Edelen and manager Lindsey Stroud Photography by LORI DUCKWORTH But those with a sweet tooth have a alive. ey worked at the lunch counter McDaniel fi lmed part of his short fi lm trilogy were working together in an offi ce singular reason to visit this family-owned in their younger days before becoming Waving Wheat—which incorporated virtual building in downtown Ardmore. Illustrations by JJ RITCHEY business started in 1952 by Jim Holder: the manager and gift department buyer, reality—inside Holder Drug. “We’d always talk about what we’d the Jack & Jill Sundae. respectively.—GREG ELWELL want to see in Ardmore in terms of a 44 March/April 2018 OklahomaToday.com 45 40_FWTD.indd 44 2/7/18 1:21 PM 40_FWTD.indd 45 2/7/18 1:21 PM restaurant,” Stroud says. “When this space came available downstairs from our office, she said to me, ‘I’m in if you are.’” WHEN AND WHERE: Monday through The pair’s bravery paid off, as Scout— Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday and named for the main character in Edelen’s Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird— a.m. to 9 p.m. 2646 West Broadway, (580) welcomes Ardmoreites with a clean, 226-3764 or twofrogsgrill.com. stylish space and sweetness in abundance. Desserts like chocolate sheet cake, DID YOU KNOW: Keep an eye out for the key lime coconut cream pie bars, no-bake cookies, pie and banana cake dessert specials, which aren’t and fruit cobblers with perfectly flaky always on the menu but are popular when they crusts frequently sell out. Edelen, Stroud, are. The recipes come from owner Aubrey Harris’ and Savannah Donica do the baking, and wife Angeila. “She’s an amazing cook,” he says. everything here is made from the heart. “We don’t have any formal training,” Stroud says. “We just cook the things we —NATHAN GUNTER Bethany love.” OLDE ORCHARD RESTAURANT t’s almost too much for the senses to WHEN AND WHERE: Monday through I bear: the golden squares overflowing Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday, with melted margarine and warm 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. 333 West Main Street, syrup, and the crunch giving way to a (580) 319-4620 or scout120.com. substantial cake. It’s good the waffles at Olde Orchard Restaurant are almost as DID YOU KNOW: One of Scout’s most popular big as the plates they’re served on, or this lunch specials, avocados stuffed with pico de gallo, experience would be over far too quickly. sour cream, and chicken and topped with Sriracha, Breakfast is served all day at this isn’t available every day, but locals know to arrive Bethany staple, so customers can order before 11 a.m. when it is to make sure they get it. one of these Belgian beauties any time covered with strawberry syrup and whipped topping. But there are other treats worth a taste. For twenty-two Ardmore TWO FROGS GRILL TWO FROGS GRILL years, chef Barbara Barnett has topped the coconut cream and chocolate cream decades-long Ardmore tradition, pies with soft whipped cream rather A Two Frogs Grill boasts a made- than meringue. Amy Franklin, whose The Peanut Butter Satin Pie is from-scratch dessert menu that requires family has owned the restaurant since rich, creamy, and decadent with spoons for the entire table. Though it opened in 1974, bakes fruit cobblers, the right touch of milk chocolate. the restaurant is best known for apple pies, and her grandmother’s recipe for dumplings served warm and bathed in bread pudding topped with vanilla sauce. a vanilla sauce, server Shanna Shayegh Whether customers seek a sweet start or recommends the peanut butter satin pie. an exquisite end, Olde Orchard’s menu is “I worked here for a year before I tried the perfect guide.—KARLIE YBARRA this,” she says. “I can’t believe I wasted a year like that.” She’s right. It’s rich, creamy, and WHEN AND WHERE: Monday through Friday, 6 decadent with the right touch of a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. 7339 milk chocolate. Also of note are the Northwest Twenty-third Street, (405) 787- butterscotch pecan pie and the chocolate 3332 or facebook.com/oldeorchardrestaurant. bread pudding, which is served with the same delectable vanilla sauce as the DID YOU KNOW: Becky Franklin, who has served If you’ve actually saved room for dessert apple dumplings. Those looking for a Olde Orchard customers for thirty-three years, at Two Frogs Grill in Ardmore, it’s hard dessert indulgence that’s well worth coined the restaurant’s cheeky slogan: “Order what to go wrong with a slice of butterscotch the carbs, look no further: You have you want, eat what you get.” pecan pie, here, or an apple dumpling. arrived.—TRISHA BUNCE 46 March/April 2018 OklahomaToday.com 47 40_FWTD.indd 46 2/7/18 1:21 PM 40_FWTD.indd 47 2/7/18 1:21 PM Claremore The chocolate toffee pie is a generous FRONT PORCH BAKERY & slice of dense chocolate gluttony topped SMOKEHOUSE with crushed toffee and shaved chocolate. “I took my mother’s chocolate pie f not for her mother’s longing for a recipe and added chocolate and a butter I sun-sweetened raisin pie, Melissa toffee topping to the whipped cream,” says Holt might not be baking 150 loaves of Naifeh-Wagoner. bread, 500 dozen cookies, 300 pies, and For those looking to avoid the kitchen, 1,000 cinnamon rolls every month. But this cozy café also has grab-and-go items. after she got her mother a raisin pie at “Some of our customers never cook,” the Ol’ Dutchman’s Bakery on Route 66, says Naifeh-Wagoner—ANGELA BOTZER she went all-in and bought the restaurant itself. So after thirty-year careers in other fields, she and her husband Matt WHEN AND WHERE: Tuesday through began creating baked goods and smoked Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 1253 North meats at the Front Porch Bakery & Washington Avenue, (580) 931-3171 or SmokeHouse north of Claremore. diningarounddurant.com. “Everything we make here, we make from scratch,” says Melissa. “It’s an DID YOU KNOW: Naifeh-Wagoner creates Amish-style bakery.” experimental new sweet treats with her regular Travelers often sit on the porch or Dessert of the Week special. at picnic tables under the trees to savor molasses crinkle cookies, Mississippi Mud cake, or pink lemonade pie. Elk City “The strawberry cake is my mom’s THE SUGAR SHACK recipe. It’s amazing, with fresh strawberries in the cake and the icing,” hen Elk City’s main cake baker Melissa says.—SHEILAH BRIGHT W decided to retire, she asked Cathy Shirey if it would be all right to send over a few referrals. Turns out, folks in Elk City WHEN AND WHERE: Monday through like cake, because it quickly became a full- Saturday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. 18435 South State time job requiring a full-time space. So it Olde Orchard Restaurant Highway 66, (918) 341-7505. seemed fortuitous when Shirey came across what she calls “a crazy little shack just DID YOU KNOW: When Melissa Holt and her beyond the tracks”— just like in the song Breakfast is served all day husband Matt bought the Ol’ Dutchman’s Bak- by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs. here, so you can get one of ery, that establishment’s recipes were part of the The Sugar Shack makes plenty these Belgian waffles any time deal. She’s supplemented the menu with recipes of cakes, but those who want a quick smothered in strawberry syrup from her family, staff, and Pinterest. snack can stop in for cookies, cake balls, and whipped topping. petits fours, and more. Perhaps the most irresistible confection in the entire shop is Durant the buttery white chocolate popcorn. One DINING AROUND DURANT CAFE problem: The Sugar Shack is only open four days a week, so make sure to plan here are many reasons to visit Durant. ahead.—GREG ELWELL TOne of these is the opportunity to dive into a chocolate toffee pie or a Double Decker Strawberry Shortcake at WHEN AND WHERE: Tuesday through Friday, Dining Around Durant Cafe.