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| - My husband is native North Carolinian and we've lived there for several decades before coming to Vegas for good. So we're always on the lookout for good southern cooking...and Cracker Barrel is not it!Tonight was our first time at The Hush Puppy. Great service, very good food. More on that.
The hush puppies are the best we've had since 42nd Street Oyster Bar in Raleigh. The honey butter was perfect. Not too much honey but just enough. Light, crisp, lovely.
We had the fried green tomato appetizer to start. Our only complaint was they don't jazz it up with Tabasco before frying like my husband prepares his but they do provide hot sauce on the table. Then my husband got the Bayou Platter with shrimp, alligator, catfish and oysters. I got the #4 senior plate. Both included a trip to the salad bar.
I don't normally rave about salad bars but I will this one. The mixed greens were beyond fresh. The pickled tomatillos (I believe that's what they were) were to die for as was their fresh-every-day-at-4:00 cole slaw. You could tell the dressings were made fresh in-house, not out of a bottle. They were delicious and very cold as was the tartar sauce. Having had food poisoning from warm tartar sauce back in NC, I am very leery of it and learned how to make it at home. Normally I will not eat it out. I had no qualms about eating this because it tasted very fresh and it was chilled right there at the salad bar.
However, we can't rave about the alligator or oysters. They weren't that good. The alligator was extremely rubbery and chewy. But who knows, maybe that's just alligator. My husband has never failed to eat all his fried oysters, he loves them, but he left one tonight.
The catfish, however, was excellent. One other review complained about the excessive usage of salt on the catfish but we couldn't detect any at all. Maybe we got someone else's no-salt order. We had to add some. My butterflied shrimp on the senior plate were very good. I don't believe they were the frozen ones you get in other restaurants. These tasted like they were hand breaded just before frying.
Best of the best, though, was the southern iced tea. This was not made from powder. It's good old southern sweet tea like your mama once made that has been boiled and the sugar added to melt while it is still hot. If you don't like "turn your teeth inside out sweet" order it half with unsweetened. They are glad to accommodate.
All in all, a very good meal and we will be back when we get a hankering for good old down home cooking.
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