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| - I've been to this establishment on random occasions for 15 plus years. went back last night with a craving for their corn-meal breaded catfish. as luck would have it, sunday nites are all you can eat catfish and breaded shrimp. fried heaven, here i come.
the decor is, meh, fake waterfall, unkempt outside, not one of those, whoa, eat and be seen kind of places, but it has been in business for alot of years owing to the quality of food they serve. service was mediocre at best, just as you'd expect at a long-term mom and pop place in vegas that felt confident it no longer had to compete with places on the strip
we ordered the all you can eat for the night. we were first served with hush puppies, now conveniently fried "bulllet-shaped". WTF? what happened to the old fashioned deep fried, round-shaped balls of corn meal and goodness they used to serve? i guess the kitchen finally got automation and now they come out like artificially formed mini-hot dogs. the upside is they are served with honey-sweet butter, perfect for dipping in.
on to the salad bar, the cole slaw was vintage, not too sweet, not too vinegary, salad bar was basic but kept thankfully free of the brown, lettuce and chunks of leftover heads that no one wants to chop up. In addition, they kept the salad bar stocked and made sure there were no other "add ons" i.e. no plunkets of tomato in your ranch dressing carried over by some lazy careless guest. i hate that.
the seafood was served hot with homemade tartur sauce. they serve all you can eat crab legs on mondays for what it is worth. if it's any help, the tourists we saw on sun night who opted to order a bucket were working to glean every piece of meat off the small crab legs they ordered on the off night.
All in all for what it was, very filling, not at all romantic, and nothing memorable, but decent food that doesn't make you sick. that should count for something.
As a plus, the catfish is very well filleted, no worry about a bone, ever, which is good to me. Plus they have the recipe for iced T down, awesome! Last thing to mention for all you catfish/fried shrimp lovers $12.50 for all you can possibly eat on a Sunday night when you don't want to cook. Along with the refillable salad bar. not a bad spend.
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