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Pete, cooking Italian Fried Chicken

The spicy bouquet of authentic Italian cooking wafting from the kitchen at Pete's Place has been luring travelers through the blackjack covered hills of southeast Oklahoma since 1925.

Sometime before 1925, young Pete Prichard, injured in a mining accident and looking for a way to support his family, began making and serving homemade Choc beer to miners in the area. Soon he was also fixing lunches in his home for those men. They liked the food over at "Pete's Place." Gradually, Pete expanded his menu and added homemade wine. Prichard officially opened the original restaurant in his home in 1925.

In 1964, Pete turned the operation of the restaurant over to his son, Bill, but the wizened old man with the distinctive limp continued to make ravioli by hand every day to feed an ever-increasing clientele. By then Pete's regular customers included war heroes, U.S. senators, governors, congressmen, legislators, sports and movie stars, celebrities from every walk of life. Most of those sampled the still-illegal home brewed beer and wine.

Bill Prichard and his wife Catherine turned the business over to their son Joe and his wife Kathy in 1984. Today the young Prichards take pride in continuing the legacy begun by Joe's immigrant grandfather more than seventy-five years ago.

Pete and Bill Prichard are both gone now, and Prichards no longer live upstairs above the restaurant, yet today's diners enjoy the same home-style servings of the authentic Italian cuisine the innovative young immigrant once made available to hungry miners in that same location. Choc beer served today is made with the same old recipe passed down from generation to generation with one marked difference. The Choc served these days is legal.

Joe and Kathy Prichard are carrying on family tradition when they say, "You're invited to our house for dinner." They are still referring to the old family place, and in the long-standing tradition of Joe Prichard's forefathers, they mean it.

Get your Official Choc Beer tacker (sign) This beautiful panted metal Choc Beer tacker is 23 1/2 inches wide an 9 inches high $16.50

A  Wish  Come  True  ... That's right our beer is available to go in bottles and cans.

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