Dave Morris » dining

Food trucks + warm weather = large crowds for Hn8th street festival

davemorris — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:47:17 +0000

I caught up with Dave Cathey, of food dude fame, a few blocks from where I live on Friday night. The Hn8th Street festival-food market-night market-reason to block off a street-whatever you want to call it event that happened on Friday night in MidTown seemed to be a success. Long lines. Storm clouds. Happy people. Just a few of the observations from the 90 minutes I spent talking with people and pressing record on the Canon 60D (shot with 16-35mm lens).

Bin 73 singles out the partnerless for Valentine’s Party

davemorris — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:54:23 +0000

Shot this earlier this month at Bin 73 with my Canon 60D with a quick GoPro Hero 2 moment. Photos by The Oklahoman’s Nate Billings. The DSLR is pretty good in low light, but it was like a cave – very dark. My fault, Beau Stephenson – a great guy on this shoot – offered to turn on more lighting. So that’s my fault. But that burger he cheffed up was outstanding. I also want to try the Cuban I saw on the menu.

Who’s hungry? A Good Egg Dining Chefs’ Feast

davemorris — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:46:51 +0000

Yum!

The Tasting Room

davemorris — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:34:00 +0000

I shot this interview with Angi Bruss and chef/owner/partner Kurt Fleischfresser on Saturday night. Fleischfresser was debuting his concept, The Tasting Room, which is behind Will’s in the Will Rogers Theatre on NW 43 and Western.

It was the second straight weekend I had shot something with Chef K, both weekends decidedly involving world-class food. For a tech geek like myself, seeing the kitchen with cameras and flat screen in operation was pretty cool. While Chef K chefs behind the grill and stove, he can step on a button and toggle through various camera shots that appear on the flat screen for the entire room and the entry hall.

I’m a big fan of Will’s, especially during warm weather on the patio. The food is exceptional. Chef’s food, I’ve heard it called. The egg salad sandwich is insanely good.

Pardon the audio on the above video, something about Angi’s mic bugged out during the interview so I went with the on-board mic on the trusty Sony HVR A1U. The Canon 7D refused to read cards this weekend.

The other white meat

davemorris — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:54:55 +0000

The place smelled incredible.

I’ve never been less hungry.

The above video is a quick edit on Saturday’s Cochon555 event in Stillwater: 5 pigs, 5 chefs, 5 wines.

5 kinds of inspired cheffing.

And I’ve never wanted food less.

You see, the video I haven’t posted is the pig you see stretched out within this video. The one with the eyes stabbed out.

That poor porker faced a worse fate: knives, hacksaw… you get the picture. Actually you don’t because I haven’t posted it: the part where the head is cut off. It was later paraded around, after the auction.

I shot this video with a hand-held Sony HVR A1U. My kit didn’t have the right tripod plate – stupid mistake lesson: never get to a shoot without checking all of your equipment, including plates, mic sensitivity levels and batteries. Maybe even tape stock. So the finished video fared far worse than I hoped.

But I think it still tells the story minus the aroma.

RePUBlic Gastro Pub

davemorris — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:33:14 +0000

Here’s how it works: sometimes a video request will come in via email from the newsroom to the OPUBCO Studios and I feel the need, the “right,” the hunger to personally handle the request.

That was the case this week.

I caught up with The Oklahoman’s food editor Dave Cathey and Matt Clayton for a preview and tour of RePUBlic Gastro Pub, Good Egg Dining’s latest opening. The place is spectacular inside. I’m a big fan of patios and it has one of those too, complete with flat screens, secluded from Classen.

Walls of beer.

Flat screens of over 100 inches. Several of them.

Trendy decor.

And outstanding mustard dipping sauce.

RePUBlic opens Monday. I’d recommend it from what I tasted. The burgers, wings and chicken were exceptional, and that was only a bite or so of each. Some weeks are more rough than others with this gig.

Watch the video above for a sneak peek. My tripod completely crapped out on me during this shoot, meaning the head came completely unscrewed and fell off. Fortunately the camera – Canon 7D – was already in the bag. But I came away with limited pans and moving shots, they just weren’t smooth enough to use. The Oklahoman’s David McDaniel, a big time pro, was on hand to shoot stills for NewsOK and The Oklahoman. I used some of his stills in the video because they were much better images of the food.

Chocolate Decadence 2010

davemorris — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:36:35 +0000

From last night’s event in downtown OKC, Dave Cathey takes us on a tour of the tables. Chocolate everywhere. In drinks. On plates. And CocoFlow, which we’ll have another video on later next week, won the judges’ tastebuds.

Food, more food and weather

davemorris — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:52:07 +0000

Shot the latest four segments in our Gourmet Grille at Buy For Less series to begin the day. Sean (Sean Cummings’ Irish Restaurant and Pub) and Cathy (Vito’s Ristorante) Cummings were in rare form this morning. They cheffed up two soups, some scallops and a pepper crusted steak.

Caught up with the Food Dude, The Oklahoman’s food editor, Dave Cathey for lunch. Cathey and I discussed some of our upcoming video series, the Lunch Birds, Try This! and a Chef’s Table concept. We were joined at Rococo Restaurant & Fine Wine by owner/chef Bruce Rinehart, Iguana Grill owner/chef Ryan Parrott and Kristy Klockhart. I recommend the Rococo’s Gangster Sausage Grinder. I’d also recommend a pair of Rinehart’s always flashy pants. Next time you’re there, see for yourself.

Back at OPUBCO Studios, I interviewed the National Weather Service’s Rick Smith via Skype this afternoon. Rick is the warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Norman Forecast office. It’s going to get cold. We will do more interviews throughout the winter and spring, including tomorrow morning for an update.

Taco Tuesday

davemorris — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:09:23 +0000

Ryan Parrott, chef/owner of Iguana Grill, sat down a couple weeks ago with us. In fact, it was the same night we shot the interviews for the upcoming Skirvin video with Steve Lackmeyer and Jack Money.

Tanner Herriott and Dave Cathey handled the interview with Parrott. Tanner used the Canon 7D and a Zoom audio recorder. Great images, audio sounded great too considering it was only the onboard Zoom mic, stereo setting. Notice the “Top Chef” type shooting of the food and the rich colors.

And the funky music.

Gary Vaynerchuk hits OKC

davemorris — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:47:52 +0000