The Coney I-Lander at 7462 E. Admiral Place, which is along an old Route 66 alignment in Tulsa, is featured today in Jane and Michael Stern’s Roadfood.com.
Coney I-Lander also has a location on 2838 E. 11th St., also on Route 66.
The Sterns explain how the Coney I-Lander chili is unique:
The chili is vividly spiced but not tongue-tingling hot, and it is nothing like the stuff you would spoon up from a bowl as a meal. It is more a spicy beef paste, eminently suited as a dressing for a snappy little weenie or as a topping for a plate of tamales. A Coney I-Lander Coney is a two or three bite affair. Three or four are a modest meal in the single-digit price range; big eaters think nothing of having a half-dozen for lunch.
Get ’em covered with grated cheese. And the Frito pie is aces, too.