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Surprises? Sometimes they’re good.

March 11, 2015 /

The fellow on the telephone said he’d read the article about us in the morning paper.

“The article?” I asked.

“Yes,” he answered. “In that insert section of the Tulsa World.”

That was pretty much my clue to grab the paper and shake out the insert. Sure enough. Not too many pages past the front cover was an article by Mr. Scott Cherry that included the locations of five places to find Irish fare in the Tulsa area – and not just on St. Patrick’s Day.

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“Five to Find” is a weekly feature in the World’s “Weekend” section that comes out – ironically – in the midweek Wednesday edition. More time to plan your activities, maybe. This week’s focus ties in with the article on Tulsa’s St. Paddy’s celebrations and mentions five restaurants. Coming in at a solid number three?

McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro.

I’m really pleased to be mentioned on the same page as the big boys – Kilkenny’s Irish Pub and McNellie’s Pub – both of which I have visited and enjoyed. Baker Street Pub & Grill is new to me, as it Midleton’s Bar & Grill, so I’ll have to add them to the got-to-try-one-day list.

Thanks, Mr. Cherry, for remembering our lunch efforts in your article! And it makes for a good time to mention that we’ll be having some St. Paddy’s offerings this weekend, during the run of the Shamrock the Rose festival on Main Street. Surprisingly, the second annual event didn’t get their information to the World to be included in the weekend calendar.

We’ll have a limited menu in order to stretch our manpower (and womanpower, in the case of my daughter Kristen, who’ll be lending a hand for a second straight year). Of course, we’ll be offering Irish Stew as we did last year, and on Saturday you can try corned beef and cabbage served sandwich-style. I was able to corral a sample and wound up devouring the entire sandwich.

Green beer on tap, and there’s no surprise.

The Rose District will be full of entertainment and eats on Saturday, and the festival is schedule from 11am to 11pm. And as you would expect, we’ll be here and doing it at lunchtime on Tuesday – St. Patrick’s Day.

Plenty of time for you to get out and…

Come visit!

McHuston

Booksellers & Irish Bistro
Rose District
122 South Main St. Broken Arrow OK!

I know the unknown magazine model.

March 2, 2015 /

Readers will think she was hired for a photo shoot, but it’s my lovely daughter Kristen gracing the article by Tulsa People Magazine. I’m pretty sure the paragraph identifying her standing in front of McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro was accidentally trimmed – for space requirements or something. It is appropriate that she is featured on a festival article, though. Kristen has agreed to help us again this year for the St. Paddy’s fun. The picture was taken outside the bookstore on St. Patrick’s Day last year.

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The article on the Tulsa People website has a photo credit, although it almost looks like it is identifying the green-beer-bearing beauty as someone named Debra. That’s a photographer’s credit, and is the name of the organizer of the ShamROCK the Rose festival, who must have snapped the picture at last year’s event. The 2nd Annual festival will happen in the Rose District on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day (which falls on Tuesday). Since our shop is located in the Rose District, we’ll get to have two separate days to party!

You can click on the links to see the articles on the TULSA PEOPLE website and on the ShamROCK festival page, since Kristen appears on both.

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Chef Dustin and Party-President Kristen will be teaming up for some specials for both days, but rest assured – I will not be personally idle. Someone has to come up with a green beer concoction, and they have entrusted that duty to their dad. I plan to take the job seriously.

We sold a lot of Irish Stew at last year’s event (along with a lot of green beers…) and we’re hoping that all of you will come out to sample our Irish fare when that bless’t day o’ days rolls around.

I’m greatly pleased to see Kristen modeling in front of the bookshop, accessorized with a pitcher of Irish tonic. Luckily, she was spared the majority of her father’s genetic makeup and is considerably more photogenic. I do believe her children are not quite as afraid at the sight o’ me as they used to be.

I just wish the magazine or the festival would have identified Kristen. I’m hoping some of her friends will spot the article and share it, which would make an old dad more than a wee bit proud!

The festival is March 14 and – of course – St. Paddy’s Day is on the 17th, but you don’t have to wait until then to – Come Visit!

McHuston

Booksellers & Irish Bistro
Rose District
122 South Main St. Broken Arrow, OK!

Snow Dancers.

February 23, 2015 /

It’s a Snow Angel day, but they are pirouetting here in the bookshop.

Empty parking places in the Rose District at lunchtime…a rare sight. Attributed to the snow and the frigid wind, no doubt. They weren’t ALL empty though, and Chef Dustin and I were able to send out quite a few meals to lunch-time guests today.

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Here’s the switch: there is more snow on the ground now (late afternoon) and more cars are lining the street than before. Here in the bookshop, I’m having a little break and a chance to post some pictures of the new sculpture display.

Rose District artist David Nunneley visited the other day and mentioned he was having some floor repair done at his gallery, and as a result was required to move all the displayed artwork out of the way. He wondered if we’d be interested in hosting a few ladies for a week or so, until the work is completed.

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Yes, without a doubt!

So the ballet is afoot at the front column in the bookstore, bronze sculptures that were completed by Mr. Nunneley as studies done while undertaking a commission that now graces the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

It’s one of those times I wish I had some photography skills, but I’m sharing – as best I can – the dancers in their poses atop the wooden pedestals. One of the three has previously visited, and I mentioned in an earlier note how I regretted not taking a photo before she departed.

Well. Take advantage of second chances!

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Those of you who may have missed my earlier post and the link to the artist’s website can click HERE for a personal introduction courtesy of DavidNunneley.com. And you get a better look at any image on this page by clicking on it.

He has recently delivered another bronze monument out of state, this time to Colorado, and has a life-sized statute of a noted US Civil War figure in Arkansas, the story of which I hope to share in the near future.

In the meantime, you are invited to come down for lunch and a tour of the temporary bookstore gallery. It’s quick, tasty, and cultured.

In fact, if it gets any artsy-classier, they won’t let me in any more!

The snow is ending, so – Come visit!

McHuston

Booksellers & Irish Bistro
Rose District
122 South Main St. Broken Arrow OK!

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