Ok, good and bad. I'll do the good first. Wife had the catfish. Two large fillets of decent, flakey white catfish, properly coated in corn meal and fried to a nice golden color. I had to beg a big bite from her. The coating was crispy while the meat was hot, moist and delicious. And she loved her green beans and bacon. We've finally found the place where a couple of true Dixielanders can get honest fried catfish.
The bad. "Selma's Texas BBQ. " Well, this sure ain't Texas and I wouldn't even call it BBQ. Folks, their meat is cooked in a gas cooker with a few chips of hickory to supposedly give a smokey flavor. Hell, you can see the damned thing from the counter!! I got the brisket (Texans DO NOT do pork butt or shoulder and admit it). No smoke ring, no bark, no real smoke flavor. I wonder what they would have done had I asked for burnt ends!! And that was the strangest potato salad I've ever seen. I just don't see how you people from the South and Texas in particular call this good BBQ. The meat was edible, moist and tender, buts it's not BBQ and that's what they're advertising. And for good measure, I had them give me a "bone' on the side. Again, the rib was oven cooked with only rub on it to give it any flavor. The pictures on their website are false advertising. The pics added on Yelp are more realisitic and an experienced eye can tell from them that the meat is oven cooked.
Give me a few more warmups on my smoker and you folks will just have to come by the house here in Harmony for real Texas brisket.
We'll return but only for the catfish. Now, that was good.