Blue Rooster

The fried catfish is amazing! Actually, all their food is amazing! The waitstaff is very friendly. We make sure to visit once or twice every time we’re in Broken Bow.

Very bad food! No flavor and they ran out of sides.
Our waitress had bloody nails/​cuticles and seems to not have good hygiene. When she would talk she seemed to no be shy with using the word «shit». Also while waiting for her to come back she had a Cig. In her hand while behind the bar taking to another staff member. I would never go back to this place if we do a cabin in the near future.

I can vouch for the fried jalapenos (VERY spicy), fried green tomatoes (omgomgomgsogood), and their burger, all are very good. We had a large party and all of the food came out piping hot and at the same time, which I know can be tricky. The waitstaff was very nice, too.

Slow. Delicious! Quaint, friendly, pleasant. Staff sometimes have their kids working alongside them – very cool. Fried catfish was the best I’ve had. Fried green tomatoes are worthy of their own movie! The fried jalapeños are hot! Fried pickles, yup! No draft beer but an enormous selection of bottled beer (watch the prices). Wife said it was the best chicken strips she’s had. I’d go back.

Had lunch and most in the party had hamburgers who said they were very good. Nice setting on the outdoor deck. We will definitely come back.

It looks nice but the service was fair and not exactly friendly. The team selected shrimp and it tasted okay but overpriced. I was a little disappointed after reading the other reviews. I will not return. Probably the other choices on the menu would have been better. I usually ask the server what they like the best. Our server showed little interest in us and I did not ask.

Really enjoyed the catfish, hush puppies, and fried pickles. The catfish was perfectly prepared, the hush puppies had a great flavor, and the pickles were tasty.

I went to The Blue Rooster with my family, with iffy expectations based on the inconsistent reviews on Unilocal.I’m happy to say they proved everything below 4 stars wrong! For having as little staff as it looked to have, their service was above sub par. Our waitress, who looked to be busy running around, was very attentive & got us refills & anything else we needed. I got the chicken & fish basket with fried okra & all of it was great. We also got the fried jalapeños, pickles, yellow squash, & green tomatoes, all fried to perfection. & although fried things don’t hold over well to-​go, I took what we didn’t eat it was so good! The rest got burgers which were handmade & delicious seeing as I just had to try a bite! They also had fresh tomatoes on the burgers! So awesome! & of course we all had to get sweet tea. Which was the right kind of sweet. I was very happy we chose to come here. (:

The food was good… we had the roast beef po boy, shrimp basket, grilled cheese and friend pickles. There wasn’t much left of those when we were done. The beer selection is quite good too. There were a few I wished hadn’t been marked off the menu though.
My only gripe was the service. Our waitress did an okay job but she didn’t seem very interested in serving us. It seemed like she knew the folks at the next table though, and helped them pretty quickly. Again, I can’t complain too much as all the food was out in a good amount of time and drinks were fetched quickly but maybe even just a bit of a smile next time would be nice.

Fried pickles with jalapeño mixed in was amazing! Family atmosphere with butcher block paper to draw on at each table. The service was quick, friendly, and helpful.

Food was okay! Live music was a saving grace! Lovely HUgE patio. Service was VERY slow. They were busy and not enough staff, I felt sorry for our waitress. She was sweet and definitely did the best she could. (We had a large party)

My husband and I ate here around 2pm and it was not crowded and easy to grab a table indoors. Our hostess came over and laid butcher paper down for us to doodle on while we waited for our food.
To begin, we tried the fried pickles and fried green tomatoes. They were both yummy! Highly recommend the green tomatoes though because you can’t find those everywhere. For our meal I had the cheeseburger and he had the catfish. He liked his fish, but we both agreed the burger was just too good! We finished off with a chocolate fried pie. It was served with a small cup of ice cream. The fried pie was ah-​mazing!
We enjoyed ourselves here and loved the atmosphere. It’ll be our new go to place for lunch.

The servers were less than friendly. Ours took our order and brought our food but didn’t check on us once. We had to go up to the bar to ask for a new drink because so much salt had fallen in while she made it that it tasted awful. It should never have been served to us as it had turned blue from so much of their blue dyed salt falling into the drink. Other than that the food was at least good. You’ll enjoy just about anything you get. Unfortunately, whether it’s a tall frozen or a short on the rocks, the margaritas were ridiculously overpriced at $ 10.50 with house tequila. We come to Broken Bow often and to have such uninterested and crummy service was a huge disappointment.

While on vacation me and my husband stopped by for dinner. The place is really neat and has a great vibe when you enter. When we ask waiter things about menu he replied I have no ideal I just started. He looked about 16 and didn’t want to be there. We ordered catfish and shrimp. With the expensive price tag you would expect a plate right? Nope came out in tiny fair food basket. Our face fell, not only was basket tiny so were the 3 shrimp and 3 strips of fish. And the tiniest hush puppy I have ever seen. The shrimp tasted good enough, but the fish was disgusting and neither of us could eat it. We left there and got a pizza. If I had to say anything was note worthy, it would be the tartar sauce and ranch were tasty and seemed homemade. When we told people at the business across the road about it they said chicken strips were good.

Stopped by this place heading to Fort Smith & ended up coming back when I headed back home. The service was great. I got the catfish basket w/​Mac n cheese & it also came with hush puppies. The mac n’ cheese was great, the catfish tasted as of they just caught it up the river & the hush puppies were to die for. Highly recommend ordering extra. They also had local beer which is always a huge plus for me.

We’re in Hochatown, OK for the first night and having supper at the Blue Rooster and I’m wondering how Hochatown is pronounced. So when our server comes over to take our order I write on the haute cuisine butcher paper laid before us with the Crayolas we’ve been given «Mexia», and I explain to her that we’re from Texas, and I ask her, «How would you pronounce that?» «MeX-​ee-​uh», she replies.” Nooo, Honey, It’s ‘muh-​hay-​uh’.”
And then I tell her there’s this old Texas joke…
«An Easterner traveling through Texas stops at a Dairy Queen in Mexia for lunch. When the waitress comes over he asks, ‘Say, how do you say the name of this place?’ She looks at him like he has two heads and says, ‘Are yew searious.’ ‘Yes, I’m serious! How do you say it?’
«She rolls her eyes and says, ‘Honey, it’s pronounced, ‘day-​ree kween’.»
Me: Hahahahaha at my totally funny joke
So thinking I have hilariously made my point, I ask our server, «So, how do you pronounce the name of this place?»
And she, staring blankly at me says, «buh-​lew rooh-​ster.»
Me: Head on table
We had the fried chicken and it was terrific. This is what God had in mind when he created fried chicken.
Don’t pass it up.

We only came here because it was a Friday night and the wait over at the pizza place was an hour long. At first we were so happy to bump into this place. It was not crowded at all (with good reason, as we later found out) and our waitress was a total sweetheart!
Food: Our group got baskets of catfish, nuggets, okra, macaroni and cheese, and beans to share. Everything was pretty greasy but we didn’t mind much.
Other than that it was ok food. Nothing horrible. If that was the end of our experience I would’ve given this place 3 stars, maybe even 4 for the sweet waitress. But OHHHH no that was not the end.
I spent the majority of the night puking my guts out and by the time morning came around my SO was sick too.
When we met the rest of our group for breakfast (We didn’t manage to stomach anything that our awesome lodge was offering but we sat at the window and tried to enjoy the view) We found out that they were super sick too! Everyone in our group was sick. EVERYONE. And no one had the exact same dishes as anyone else. Ex: One of us just ate beans and okra while I only touched the catfish and mac. So it HAD to be something in all the food. Perhaps the grease? I don’t know but the rest of our weekend was miserable. Maybe it was a fluke and I may be willing to go back if it was somewhere close but never while I’m on a trip. So not worth risking another ruined vacation and sitting on the toilet while I’m supposed to be hiking.

«Meh». Had dinner here. Service was good, but the food was sub par. The grilled chicken in the salad was dry. The fried chicken was below average. Fried pickles were kind of gross. We ate our food anyway, but were extremely disappointed.
We ended up cooking for ourselves the rest of the trip, and had much better meals.
Also, if you have gluten allergies, don’t eat here. They didn’t have any alternative menu items. I was especially surprised, as I could have eaten a baked potato if they would have had some fresh ones. I guess that means their french fries aren’t made fresh and must be frozen or something, as they didn’t have any potatoes they could make for me into a baked potato.

We got chicken strips (best we’ve ever had), fried catfish, mac n cheese, fried green tomatoes, fried jalapeños (amazing…must try!) and fried okra! It was all delicious. The service was great too!

This is just an update. I usually stay in area at least once or twice a year. Having come back to this place, there are still some of same servers here (as also the owner). They are VERY friendly to us. And they even remembered us. Don’t get the gist of some saying it’s slow. They are not slow and this is a vacation place. Meant to relax in this area. It’s a lake/​resort/​cabin area. WHO GETS IN A HURRY IN THIS PLACE, I MEAN? LOL
Boiled, peel and eat shrimp good. I think that the chicken was even better than last time. Served with two kinds of pickles, onions, white bread on butcher paper. Good place to watch sports/​football if you are there then. They have expanded the outside seating area. But one warning… as this is a TOURIST area, they may NOT always be open to the full time stated on the door because if there is no one eating there (especially weekdays), they may close a bit early. But they also never rush us out when we are there close to closing, either.
I think this is a great local place. Other folks I was with stated it was the best meal we had while there for weekend. And we went to a lot of places to eat since we ate out each meal. I truthfully would give this place a shot, just to have a little fun. The more you «mess» with the servers, the more fun they have, too.
For those of you «Texans», try to remember your wet/​dry counties. This is a dry county; one of the few in Oklahoma. They only currently (as of this date (Oct 2014)) serve beer. But they have a vote scheduled to allow liquor by the drink with meals at the upcoming election this November. So keep your fingers crossed and hope that the election passes. They depend highly on tourism in this area and this would help them a lot.