Bebēda is set to open a downtown drink drive-thru this week

A downtown drink window you don’t leave the car for is on the calendar for this week. The day is not.

Bebēda — the phonetic spelling of the Spanish word bebida — is set to open the second week of November, the Tulsa World reported Nov. 6. Owner LauraAnn Freyre, a former barista, is putting it in a former bank teller stall at 620 S. Cincinnati Ave., parallel to The Vault. The World says the shop has no association with that restaurant. Freyre told the paper she expects it to be the first drink drive-thru downtown.

Planned hours are 5:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The World says the menu runs to nearly 50 drinks, including agua fresca, boba tea, and soda along with coffee, plus pastries. Drink prices start at $4.50. Pastry prices start at $3.50. The paper’s menu picks are a horchata latte, a strawberry splash boba tea, and a chocolate miso and tart cherry cookie. Customers enter on Seventh Street and exit onto Cincinnati Avenue. A barista takes the order outside on a handheld, and the two-lane line is meant to stay off The Vault’s parking lot. Drinks are made on site and sealed in a plastic can. Freyre told the World the sealer closes a can in two seconds.

The stall is in the old First National Auto Bank. The World, citing The Vault, says that bank was built between 1958 and 1960 and had six drive-thru lanes.

The shop’s own site lists the same Cincinnati address, the phone 918-607-8328, and a 6:30 p.m. close. It also still carries leftover template copy about poke. This note does not treat that page as proof the window is already open. The World did not name a day inside the week.

This is an opening tip, not a Best Of ranking. Check the World story and bebedatulsa.com before you drive through.

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