Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

They peeled the roof off a Ford assembly plant and put a stage where the trucks used to roll out. The Jones Assembly at 901 West Sheridan Avenue in Oklahoma City opened on July 13, 2017 inside two warehouses of the historic Fred Jones Manufacturing Company complex, the automotive works whose founder called the plant his Camelot. The 20,000-square-foot project came from restaurateur Brian Bogert, chef Brittany Sanger, musician Graham Colton and the Hall brothers of Hall Capital - grandsons of Fred Jones himself - with Tulsa architect James Boswell, the firm behind the celebrated 2003 restoration of Cain's Ballroom, handling the conversion. The formula stacks a 225-seat restaurant with downstairs and mezzanine bars inside a room that transforms into a concert hall holding up to 1,600, while a section of roof was removed outright to create an open-air yard with a seasonal stage, fireplace nooks, bleachers and herringbone paving of salvaged site brick. The opening season set the tone - Willie Nelson, Cut Copy, JJ Grey and Mofro and Matisyahu - and the venue has run ever since as Oklahoma City's flexible mid-size room, scaling between indoor and outdoor configurations. The address matters: the Jones Assembly is the second act of a three-part master plan for Film Row and the West Village, following the 21c Museum Hotel that occupies the rest of the Fred Jones plant - together the anchor investments that pulled downtown's west side back to life. The kitchen is a destination in its own right, with Sanger's Le Cordon Bleu-trained regional menu and handcrafted drinks running daily independent of the concert calendar - a restaurant with a venue rather than a venue with a bar. For a city whose mid-size touring stock was thin, the Jones Assembly filled the gap with unusual style: a room where the industrial bones, the dining room and the stage share equal billing, and where the family that built the factory built its second life too.