Comments on: Copelands of New Orleans – Bang-a-rang, Hot Diggety-dang

By: Brian S.

Brian S. — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:23:31 +0000

I’m not sure if Cajun food explodes on your palate. From what I know about Cajun food, it involves this. First, you make a roux. The joke is that a Cajun begins to make a chocolate cake by making a roux. That’s not true but I think it is used for just about everything else. It’s not your classic Julia Child French roux. It’s a lot more complicated. Basically, you stir flour and some oily thing (preferably the fat from whatever meat you’re cooking) around for half an hour or more over a flame and if you stop stirring for even a second, you get burnt stuff in the roux and you have to throw it out and start again. Then you sauté celery, onions and green pepper (they call it the Holy Trinity) and stir that into the roux. Then you stir in some sort of stock (if it’s a gumbo you might add either okra or sassafras powder to thicken it) and then you put in the meat or seafood and that’s it. So it’s not exploding with flavor, you don’t make like Emeril Lagasse and say BAM and thrown in hot chili powder, you just let it cook and it just brings out the natural flavor of the ingredients. I don’t see how a chain restaurant could do this properly, I can’t see them assigning a sous-chef to stir your roux for an hour. They’d use a mix, and that’s like using spaghetti sauce from a can.

By: Carrisa

Carrisa — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:38:43 +0000

I think just about anyone will tell you that it’s word of mouth that makes or breaks a business. I’m not going to be rushing off to eat at a restaurant I’ve heard nothing good about.

And I am a huge fan of this blog because it has introduced me to places I never would have gone to otherwise.

So thank you Tulsa Food Blog for all that you do.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:32:34 +0000

She has every right to comment James! You are not very nice and YOU James need to GROW UP, not to mention the person that wrote this article. Copeland’s in Tulsa is not that good… take it from me a chef.

By: James

James — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:38:33 +0000

Carrisa you should not comment on something you know nouthing about.You should not judge by word of mouth so just grow up and get a life!!!! And really the food ROCKS

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:45:22 +0000

I am from New Orleans and have been eatinv at Copeland’s since I was a kid. I wanted to weigh in on the post as I have been to the one in Tulsa but realize that you have to know what you are ordering.

Hot Crab Claws are the perfect appetizer. If you like Broccoli, the Bayou Broccoli is delcous!

Shrimp Ducky is fantastic, Tomato Basil Chicken is fantastic, and any of the fried fish with the creole menuiere sauce will be pleasing.

Cajun food is an acquired taste. If your mouth is not used to many flavor combinations hitting it at once, you are not going to like it. I would not take the advice of wait staff at this restaurant. If you were at the Copeland’s on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans that is one thing but you aren’t. This is, after all, Tulsa!

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:03:55 +0000

I have eaten at the one in Rogers, AR twice. It has been there a long time, and I know people that intentionally go there before anywhere else when in Rogers. That may have some impact on the quality of food served there vs. Tulsa. The crab bisque is to die for. I was lucky and they inadvertently brought me 2 bowels at different times, two different staff memebers misreading ticket I guess. No shells, and I am not sorry to say that I did not tell them of their error…LOL. The bisque is that good. No one I have been there with has been disappointed. I am picky to boot and would be honest if it was lame. I think the cook in the kitchen definitely impacts the outcome of the food too.

By: loreejo

loreejo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:53:51 +0000

It’s pretty much impossible to get true NOLA food at a chain restaurant. Okay, I’ll got out on a safe lime and say it IS impossible. :/ This restaurant is the same all over; and there are not any “Copeland’s” in NO.

By: Carla

Carla — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:28:52 +0000

My family and I went for lunch not that long ago and we all had something different, the husband had shrimp etouffee, I had the Ricochet Catfish. The kids each had something else. There was not one momorable dish on the table. I wanted to love the place, I just couldn’t. The prices were reasonable but the food was lackluster. We may try again in a year or so, but we aren’t going to rush back. Was truly a let down.

By: Carrisa

Carrisa — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:15:57 +0000

You aren’t the first person to tell me their food wasn’t that great. I haven’t been there myself because they are all the way across town for me.

By: jan

jan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:27:09 +0000

I got the Eggplant Parm also and wasn’t that impressed! I think I just ordered the wrong thing though. The desserts there look so good!