The ambitious Mother Road Market food hall in Tulsa has set its grand opening weekend for Nov. 2.
The $5.5 million redevelopment of the 1939 Scrivner-Stevens Grocery building at 1124 S. Lewis Ave. sits a stone’s throw from the 11th Street alignment of Route 66.
According to a story in the Tulsa World:
Grand-opening weekend activities will include live music, live screen-printing from Mythic Press and chances to play the nine-hole Mother Road Mini Golf, which features Route 66 themes. Saturday is part of Tulsa Farmers’ Market Winter Market, and a yoga class by Everyone Yoga School will be taught that morning (for a $5 fee).
Mother Road Market will blend established restaurateurs such as Andolini’s trying out new concepts — Metropolis will focus on sandwiches and frankfurters — and foodies entering the industry for the first time. Entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to introduce their products in a 320-square-foot, small-shop model. […]
Customers will be able to browse specialty gift items in the retail stores and purchase fresh ingredients such as local produce, meat and dairy. The WEL Bar will have coffee options and alcoholic drinks that can be carried throughout the food hall.
Here are the merchants that will be housed at Mother Road Market, according to its website:
- & Tacos
- A New Leaf (a nonprofit group that hires developmentally disadvantage people)
- Andolini’s Sliced pizza
- Bakeshop
- Big Dipper Creamery
- Bodhi’s Bowl
- Chicken and Wolf hot chicken
- Kitchen 66 Takeover Cafe
- Kitchen 66 General Store
- Tulsa Farmers Market stand
- Metropolis (Italian and American sandwiches and frankfurters)
- Mythic Press (Tulsa- and Route 66-themed merchandise)
- Nice Guys Shrimp Shack
- The Nest (kitchen products and gifts)
- OK Cookie Monster
- Oklahoma Joe’s Barbecue
- Radish (meats, wraps, sandwiches and salads)
- Trenchers Crustacean Station
- Umami Fries
- The WEL Bar (coffee, beer, wine or cocktails)
The Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation announced the Mother Road Market venture last year. The foundation is named after former Tulsa mayor Kathy Taylor and her husband, Bill Lobeck, who once owned Thrifty Car Rental and National Car Rental.
Scrivner-Stevens once was a regional wholesale grocery chain, based in Oklahoma City, that dated to 1917, according to an archived article in The Oklahoman newspaper. The store in Tulsa was one of its early satellite ventures.
(Image of the Mother Road Market via Facebook)