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Why Culprits made the SteakMap list

Culprits is a modern steakhouse rather than a traditional chophouse, and the reason it is on this list is the kitchen behind it. The restaurant brought in James Beard-nominated chef James Fox as its Culinary Creative in 2021, specifically to build a menu around unusual ingredients rather than the standard cuts-and-sides format.

That is an uncommon arrangement. Most steakhouses hire an executive chef to execute a fixed template; bringing in a nominated chef to design against it is a different intent.

Where it is

Culprits sits at 100 East Sheridan Avenue, on the downtown edge of Oklahoma City near Bricktown — walking distance from the ballpark and the arena, in the middle of the city’s densest run of bars and restaurants.

It is operated by Provision Concepts, a local group rather than a national one.

What to expect

Expect an inventive menu and a room that leans contemporary. If you want a classic dark-wood Oklahoma steakhouse experience — and this is cattle country, so there are good ones — this is not that. It is the version that assumes you have eaten a lot of steak already.

Prices

Culprits does not publish a machine-readable priced menu, so SteakMap has no verified cuts, weights or prices to quote. Grade and aging are not published either, and we make no claim about them.

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