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Sage has closed it's doors, citing financial difficulty.

Well, that didn't take terribly long.  Savory Chef also went the way of the Albatross didn't it?

Yup.  Hard for culinary offerings like that to compete with all of the other retailers that sell the exact same stuff at half the price.

So, Stock Pot/Smalley's aside, where's a great place for couples to go who want to do cooking classes?

Good question. 

Odd timing.  FMC will finally be moving here this spring(ish) and Sage was one of the things on our list.

I've not been but William Sonoma emails me with monthly cooking classes.

The Stock Pot does them too

Could you please source your posts? I, and most others, always try to.

Here's a link..

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sage-Culinary-Studio/189680196518

I wasn't aware there was a post on it.  We had classes scheduled there, and I got an email.

Closed for remodeling?

Saw something on Fox 23 FB page about it, I'll see if I can find it

Edit: Found this http://www.facebook.com/fox23news


Looks like they are putting together a story on it

Urban Kitchen - http://www.urbankitchentulsa.com/

Stock Pot - http://www.thestockpots.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=cookschool&SID=4

NeMar Noulles - nemar@swbell.net

The Tulsa World usually publishes once a month a list of upcoming classes.

Knew about Smalley's, either had forgotten or didn't know about Urban Kitchen, never heard of NeMar.  Many thanks!

I notice that Whole Foods has classes in the space to the west of their deli/ready to eat foods section. 

We will be holding classes there soon.

Lesson in business, large over head, overpriced items, under capitalized and too much debt isn't good. I can assume the brookside location wouldn't have given the same results that we see today.

Which there?  I mentioned four theres.

Whole Foods.  We are selling out of product weekly there.  We have never had such a remarkably successful retailer, nor one so easy to work with.  They want us to participate with all kinds of events.  Really super people!

Man!  I didn't realize tree was such a market for cooking classes.  I've got a strong culinary background.  I should have known before I got into this whole grad school racket.  If anyone really wants I will do in home cooking lessons for the cost of ingredients (and a generous pour of wine).  Message me if you are interested.

We've had a shift of venue and will be teaching BBQ 101 at Smalley Equipment tonight! 

Unfortunately the class is completely sold out.  If anyone is interested, I will post a schedule of our classes at Smalley, Hasty, and Whole Foods.  We have 6 courses, BBQ 101 through BBQ 106.  Classes usually sell out within a day of being scheduled, and you have to contact the venue directly to make reservations.  Our classes are very informative with lots of secrets and some "stand-up comedy."

We also have some free mini-courses on the main stage at the Tulsa State Fair and we offer corporate classes/catered dinners.  We will come out with our rig, and give a class for your company (entertainment) as we feed everyone.  We can feed crowds up to 300.  It's a great employee appreciation idea!

Do you accept Sage gift cards?
(I actually have one  :( )

I'm willing to bet Catherine is going to sell all of that stuff (lots of high end kitchen equipment) cheap.  Keeping my eye out for the sale.

The Spirit Bank Event Center claims another victim.

I'm pretty sure Sage's wounds were self-inflicted.

The doors are too far away from the parking spots.  We won't shop anywhere more than 3 steps from our car.

I took my buddies from St. Louis to Savastano's last night.  The section where Savastano's is reminds me of an old foreboding school building.  I really don't care much for the design of the place.  When I drive into the center I feel like I just drove into some sort of maze or trap.  It's an oddly designed center.

However, the design inside the restaurant I do like.  They make you walk off part of your dinner before you even sit down (the stair climb).  It's an awesome restaurant in a crappy area of town.  Sorry, but it's just too damned crowded for my taste out there.  Reminds me of Westheimer in uptown Houston, except for that Westheimer at least was four lanes each way.

I have a feeling that they are also having problems with all the facebookisms going on an specials they are offering....hope they don't fall the same fate that Sage has had...

Why can you assume this?

He often makes such assumptions without any basis in reality.

Well common sense, Brookside had to have less overhead, very little retail, waiting lists for the kids classes they were doing....again..I guess I really have no reason to post what ifs' on the interweb...sorry for clogging the tubes and pipes...

Stop wasting cloud please.

seems like if Sage South was where the issue was they should have closed it first and left brookside open