OUR STORY
Every highway has to start somewhere. Ours starts with a name.
The Avery Kitchen & Bar is named for Cyrus Avery, the Tulsan who fought to put this city on the map of American travel, and whose road became the most famous highway in the country. This is a restaurant built in his image: a kitchen that treats Route 66 not as a slogan, but as a menu, a destination, and a reason to gather.
CYRUS STEVENS AVERY
Was born in Pennsylvania in 1871 and grew up in Missouri, where he rode a horse to school. By 1908 he’d settled in Tulsa, a town he once described as having “no lights” and “pigs running loose in the streets.” It wouldn’t stay that way for long.
Avery became the driving force behind a state road plan that connected Tulsa to the rest of the country, and later chaired the effort to establish the U.S. highway numbering system. The result was a single road stretching from Chicago to Los Angles, otherwise known as Route 66, and the title history gave to him: the father of Route 66.
The Avery carries his name because it carries his idea: that a road isn’t just a way to get somewhere. It’s a way to experience everywhere along the way.
The Avery lives inside the Hyatt Regency Tulsa Downtown, on the corner of Tulsa’s historic core, steps from the Tulsa Performing Arts Center and the Art Deco skyline that the city built during its oil boom heyday.
THE PLACE
That architectural era shapes the room itself: clean lines, warm brass, a sense of timeless polish that nods to Tulsa’s past while feeling entirely of the moment. It’s a fitting home for a restaurant built around a highway. Downtown Tulsa was, and still is, a place people pass through on their way to somewhere bigger. We just give them a reason to stay a little longer.
The Table
Every dish at The Avery is a mile marker. Our menu travels the Mother Road the way Cyrus Avery himself might have. Tulsa’s own chicken-fried steak, Amarillo-style burnt ends, St. Louis toasted ravioli, Santa Monica ahi tuna nachos, Albuquerque green chile, and a Chicago dry-aged ribeye.
Breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner all tell the same story: America along one highway, one plate at a time.
The same journey continues in the Route 66 Supper Club, a recurring dinner series that takes guests through a different Route 66 destination, one edition at a time. What started with Cyrus Avery’s road keeps unfolding, one stop, one story, and one table at a time.