This is a fantastic restaurant hidden away in the woods off of Highway 9. For those of us who live…read morein NW OKC it's about a 45 minute drive but it's worth the effort. Make sure to check the OU sports schedule before reserving your spot. OU football, basketball, softball and baseball games will slow your trip to a crawl because of traffic. It's also a bed and breakfast so you can always plan a staycation and avoid the traffic altogether. We've eaten there twice in the last 30 days and I'll include pictures and dishes from both trips. I chose it for the destination of my birthday and none of the 8 guests complained about the drive but all raved about the food. Instead of discussing each and every dish in detail like I normally do (this review would take many pages) I can say without reservation that you simply cannot go wrong with any choice. The soups are silky smooth and packed with flavor. I had the mushroom soup as a special on a previous trip and the taste was from the ground fresh. It must have been made with fresh mushrooms and herbs. The soup on this particular night was a creamy tomato bisque that was velvety smooth and amazing. I've had the House Salad and Caesar Salad. Both are fantastic. The former is a wonderful combination of greens with a light champagne vinaigrette that pairs perfectly. A "simple" Caesar salad is difficult to make but they've got it right. On this occasion I had the filet mignon; juicy, tender and the perfect temperature. I've also had the chicken and pork dishes which were wonderful. My husband has had the salmon and lamb, so I've tasted them and found them to be very good. The rack of lamb has a reduction sauce that would make drywall palatable. On this night I had the chocolate tort while a few others chose the crème brûlée and bread pudding. Pictures are unable to convey the the chef's mastery. I can't find the receipt and can't remember our server's name, shame on me. She handled our table of nine as easily as if it were a table of two. Her skill made a difficult job look easy. Don't worry about the distance. Highway 9 is a well-paved, four-lane highway. The restaurant is only about four miles east of I-35 and is an easy drive. My only suggestion is to check the OU sports schedule. I can also recommend spending the night and enjoying a room.

We made the mistake of booking a room at the Whispering Pines Bed and Breakfast for our son's…read moregraduation, and it almost ruined our weekend. Luckily the Marriot in Norman saved us because we were too grossed out by our filthy room at Whispering Pines to stay a second night. We stayed in the "Vineyard Suite" (sounds classy, right? It is not, it is disgusting). We arrived late in the evening the first night, so it was too late for any other options, and I did not realize how unclean and unhygienic the room was until the next morning. There were dirty fingerprints smeared all over the doors and refrigerator doors, food encrusted on the kitchen cabinets, crumbs and food caked on the stovetop, and what looked like years worth of filth on the baseboards. The staircase looked like a football team had tromped up and down carrying armloads of loose sawdust. The only dining table was covered in a thick layer of oil (and a dead fly). (I did not eat the breakfast because I was too grossed out by the room to eat this place's food.) There was a weird brown sludgy spot of something--blood? poop?--encrusted on one of the bathroom cabinets. There was hair (not mine!) on the sofa, which clearly had not been vacuumed in a while. We also had a variety of dead bugs scattered around--my husband removed the dead cricket from the closet before I got a picture. There was a strange situation in the dining area--a large beer label mirror was propped dangerously against the wall along the side of the dining table just waiting for someone to trip onto it. So, I texted Traci in the morning, and she did . . . absolutely nothing. She did not respond to my texts and hung up on my calls. I finally got her to respond to an email in which she pledged to give us a refund, without even apologizing for the state of the room! And then she didn't even give us the refund! During follow-up communication, she promised my husband more than once that the refund would be forthcoming, but somehow it never materialized. So we had to request a reversal of the charges on our credit card, which the credit card agent informed us would be filed under the "unhygienic/unclean" category--the agent was completely grossed out (he was actually saying, "Ewwwwwwwww" on the phone), and the credit card company granted us the charge reversal. Because Traci did not keep her pledge to refund us, here I am to gross you out, tell you not to stay here, and to post the absolutely disgusting pictures. Enjoy these snaps of our Whispering Pines nightmare! Be sure to get your credit card charges reversed if you have a similar experience, because Traci will not give you a refund!