Roka — Restaurant in Tulsa

UPDATD REVIEW----- A perfect Asian restaurant is tough to find. Time to sort them out. I have started doubling back on Tulsa restaurants that I have tried over the last 10 years. Ones that stood out on the first visit, or were worthy of a redo. This, an effort to whittle the list down to collection of restaurants that will be on my favorite list. Last time, maybe I just should have ordered something else or maybe the chef was having a bad day. (see previous review) Whatever the reason I felt that Roka was good enough for another try. Today I was hungry for a salad. Roka nailed it!! The Roka Stetson Salad, is recommended. Wonderful flavors. My wife had the Bulgogi Beef Noodle Bowl. Another great choice. Roka, a restaurant with attractive décor and relaxing ambiance that enhances the dining experience. Good food delivered to your table by excellent servers combine for a trifecta of fundamentals that make for a great dining experience.

PREVIOUS REVIEW------- The restaurant has a nice comfortable relaxing atmosphere. Nicely decorated. A restaurant that you really want to like. Nice bar area. It just feels good. The service was fair. The food, well ….some good, some not so good. The Potstickers. Crudely assembled, pan seared and very oily on the outside. Really just a utilitarian pastry for sampling the good dipping sauces. Meh. Not an attractive plate, certainly not suitable for a menu picture and not delivering a favorable a first impression. A non-appetizing, appetizer. They didn’t work for me. My wife got a small Thai Green Curry. It was a delicious bowl of rich flavorful curry broth, packed with chicken and shrimp. It’s called small but it was big. Excellent curry and coconut flavor, finished with a nice bite of heat. Very enjoyable, rich, filling. Wanting to go for the unusual, I found three meals that fit that criterion; Roka Burger, Shaking Beef, and my choice Kimchi BBQ Burger. [The menu is easily accessible on line] The ingredients that stood out on the burger menu description, were the kimchi slaw, tempura onion strings, Korean BBQ sauce and the avocado aioli. I imagined an uncontrollable chain reaction; explosion of flavor. Didn’t happen. The disappointment started with the tempura onion rings, A big oily mess. This was the demise of my dream for a great burger. The first bite had some surprising flavor. The flavors all soon faded. I think, drowned in oil from the fried onions. The signature fries; unremarkable. I would have gladly traded my burger and fries, for your Golden Arches’ Happy Meal, thrown in a couple of bucks and even let you keep the toy! I am not giving up yet. It is a nice restaurant. I just have to find something I like. My wife enjoyed the total experience very well, meaning we...

The wife and I decided to go to a unique restaurant for my birthday something out of town from NW Arkansas. We stumble across this beautiful place. The atmosphere is very nice and cozy. The Japanese decor made the place it feel perfectly well balance. We love the surroundings of Japanese cultural. The details of the place was well lit. The room may seem a bit dark but it felt cozy.

I order the Chai Ice Tea and my wife ordered the Sparkling Raspberry Lemonade. Best describe the Chai Ice Tea is like a horchata minus the rice flavor also its like a egg nog. The wife drank mostly my drink because it was that good. So I recommend trying it out. The Lemonade is also great to try. They have it in Raspberry, Blackberrys and strawberries flavors. Almost every ingredients in the menu are locally bought and housemade fresh.

Our Appetizers(happy hour 3pm-6pm)we ordered the Kimchi fries, egg rolls and Samurai rolls. The Kimchi fries are amazingly good if you like bacon and Kimchi with cheese you'll like this one. The egg rolls are great too. The Samurai rolls we ordered was spicy and delicious.

For our main course we ordered Pad Thai, Kimchi Burger and Kung Pao chicken with fried rice. It was amazingly good. The food was warm and fresh. The kimchi burger was juicy and uniquely made with kimchi, if you think that's Wasabi sauce on top it isn't. It's actually puree avacodo with their blend of mayonnaise and spices. It was very good with the burgers.

My wife Pad Thai was sweet, salty, spicy, zesty and savory all in one. That's how a Pad Thai should be made a combination of everything to tingle your taste bud. The Kung Pao chicken is a sweet dish but add a chili sauce it's amazing.

Overall my wife and I loved the place. We had a great experience with our waitress. Megan, was our server and she was well knowledge of the menu and gave us her feedback on which to try. The price is reasonable for us. It was under $100 for the two of us but it was we splurge on my birthday. I recommend this place. The open bar is also a nice place to relax with a couple of...

I had been to Roka one time before tonight and was so thrilled to be going back because I remembered how amazing it was but my friends & I were so disappointed. We went to celebrate my friends birthday so we were so upset that the night turned out the way it did. The service was horrible. It took us 10 minutes to have our sever greet us. Another 15 to get drinks and order appetizers. The appetizer we ordered was potstickers and it didn't come out with all of them so we told our server. The server said she'd have the kitchen make the rest and bring it out. We never even got the rest. My friend whose birthday it was, ordered sushi and asked for soy sauce which took forever to get. It was taking so long that we had to ask a passing host to get some for us because our sever had disappeared. We didn't want to eat without her, so we waited and our food was cold by the time she finally got soy sauce. After the horribly slow and inattentive service we received, we asked to speak to a manager about our experience. Michael, the manager, was incredibly rude and unsympathetic to our experience. He offered a dessert, which we declined because we didn't want to wait another 15-20 minutes when we'd been waiting around all evening for the most simple things like soy sauce and refills on drinks. My friend asked if the appetizer could be taken off since we didn't receive what we asked for and he was unbelievably rude. When he came back with our new bill he tossed it on the table and walked away. I'm so disappointed because we remembered Roka as being a such a nice place the last time we went. I can't say that we'd return due to the managers complete and utter rudeness and customer service. As someone in the service industry myself, I...