Most people think Casa Bonita is a Colorado thing.
The giant pink building in the Denver area with cliff divers, Black Bart’s Cave, the sopapillas, long lines, and that one South Park episode. That version of the story is everywhere right now because the last surviving location has been going through a messy, very public comeback after Trey Parker and Matt Stone bought it and tried to bring it back to life.
Oddly enough, the part nobody talks about much is where the famed Casa Bonita came from.
Oklahoma
The original Casa Bonita was opened in OKC by a very creative-thinking restaurateur named Bill Waugh. He had this wild idea that eating out should feel less like getting food and more like having an experience…