Shiloh Restaurant, Tulsa, Oklahoma

After hitting the casino and one of the malls, we went to Shiloh Restaurant, a simple and modest eatery located in an old Kettle Restaurant by a small hotel in far east Tulsa.  One really needs to know it's there in order to look for and find it, since there is only a tiny sign by the roadway, and it's easy to miss.  Shiloh has been one of my favorite "comfort food" restaurants for years, and I understand they recently opened a second location in Broken Arrow.

They make some wonderful hot rolls at Shiloh that are provided complimentary for the table, and for those in the know, they also offer some delicious strawberry-rhubarb compote to put on the rolls.  They should bottle that compote, it's so good.  I wish they'd increase their percentage of rhubarb, though, since I like a tarter mix, but I imagine most of their clientele prefers the gentle sweetness of the strawberries.

Naturally, for dinner, I had the country-fried steak with gravy.  If you look at the picture, you'll see some gravy on top of the steak.  Fear not, Southerners, there's plenty more.  In fact, they put gravy underneath the steak.  Along with the steak, I got fried okra and a little dish of macaroni and cheese.

My mother got the chicken-fried chicken, along with okra and a side Caesar salad.  My aunt wasn't very hungry (we'd been to the mall, and she'd gotten an order of French fries at the food court), so she just ordered a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich on homemade bread with some potato salad.  I think the sandwich was bigger than she expected!  We took a big go-box of blackberry cobbler home to my father, where it was quickly devoured.