Grey Sweater
Restaurant · Oklahoma City
100 NE 4th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Highlights
Globally influenced tasting menus from a James Beard Award winning chef
Globally influenced tasting menus from a James Beard Award winning chef
"Chef Andrew Black took home Best Chef: Southwest at the 2023 James Beard Awards. While he also owns Black Walnut and Perle Mesta in the Skirvin Hilton Hotel, the swank environs of Grey Sweater and its globally inspired tasting menu brought home the gold. The menu changes with the seasons and whims of the chef, but the cocktail menu always includes signatures like No Allegiance 2.0 (oxtail fat-washed rye, sherry, house-made fermented apple pie bitters, hand-carved clear ice block, and orange peel) and the Oaxacan Smoke Show (mezcal, smoked black tea cordial, Fernet Vallet, ice block, and burnt orange). - Dave Cathey, Eater contributor" - Courtney E. Smith
"Chef Andrew Black took home Best Chef: Southwest at the 2023 James Beard Awards. While he also owns Black Walnut and brand-new Perle Mesta in the Skirvin Hilton Hotel, it’s the swank environs of Grey Sweater and its globally inspired tasting menu that brought home the gold. The menu changes with the seasons and whims of chef Black, but the cocktail menu always includes signatures like No Allegiance 2.0 (oxtail fat-washed rye, sherry, house-made fermented apple pie bitters, hand-carved clear ice block, and orange peel) and the Oaxacan Smoke Show (mezcal, smoked black tea cordial, Fernet Vallet, ice block, and burnt orange)." - Dave Cathey
"Under chef Andrew Black, this Oklahoma City restaurant earned one of the state's earliest James Beard Awards; Black credited the local community with keeping the business alive during the pandemic, describing neighbors and patrons delivering financial help that enabled the restaurant to survive." - BySam Stone
"Andrew Black’s Oklahoma City restaurant won Best Chef: Southwest, earning the first James Beard medal for Oklahoma and highlighting the state’s emerging culinary profile." - Hillary Dixler Canavan
"An Oklahoma City restaurant that openly declares 'no allegiance' and resists neat labels, exemplified by dishes such as Norwegian scallops served in a Jamaican coconut milk sauce—an intentional blend of disparate ingredients and influences." - ByNavneet Alang
