Oklahoma’s Most Expensive Restaurant Depends How You Measure It

When the question of Oklahoma’s Most Expensive Restaurant comes up, two names almost always lead the conversation, and it's not exactly clear who the winner is.

Similar enough to compete for the title, but the world of wine sets the differences. Let's take a look at both.

Fait Maison in Edmond.

Fait Maison has earned the "most expensive" reputation the old-fashioned way, offering high-priced individual menu items you can pick and choose. Premium ingredients. French technique. Dishes where the number next to them gives you a little shock.

When national lists go looking for “most expensive,” that’s usually what they’re measuring, the individual menu prices, and Fait Maison checks that box.

If you order the right way, or maybe the wrong way depending on your perspective, you can build a very expensive meal one dish at a time. That’s why Fait Maison keeps showing up in rankings. It’s easy to quantify. One dish costs this much. End of discussion.

But there is another ultra-premium eatery out there.

If you shift the question from “which restaurant has the highest priced item” to “which restaurant produces the most expensive night out,” the answer changes.

Enter Nonesuch

Nonesuch doesn’t let you cherry-pick. There’s no scanning a menu and doing math in your head. It’s a fixed tasting menu. Everyone gets the same progression, and the price you pay is already set before you even sit down.

If you scan the very unorthodox and avante-bs website, that dinner starts at $115 per person. If you're planning on getting the full experience, complete with fancy wines, the per-person total often climbs way beyond what most people expect to spend on a month of dinners in Oklahoma.

The difference is control. At Fait Maison, you decide how far you want to go. They also have a curated selection of pairing wines, and you set the price point ahead of time. Up to $325 per person. At Nonesuch, the experience decides for you, and your choices can go beyond that for each person in a single sitting.

So yes, Fait Maison is almost always called Oklahoma’s most expensive restaurant, and for good reason. But when it comes to menu pricing and the cost of the full experience, Nonesuch might be wearing the price crown.