I've passed by this place for years. I'm always looking for a good quick bite on the east side, and finally stopped there tonight.
This is not typical fast food, it is not typical fried food - - though it IS fried food - - but it is still real revelation. This is super tasty short-order food, well conceived, well prepared. Ordered a $9.95 catfish & shrimp dinner for take out, and the first great indicator was that although there were only one or two others there, it took them maybe 15 or 20 minutes for this simple order. That's because it wasn't just scraped up out of a trough - - the product was carefully prepared. The catfish had bones so you had to be careful where you bit, but was beautifully crusted on the outside, and flaky/tender on the inside; the shrimp were the plumpest, most succulent, most flavorful things that I have experience under the rubric of "shrimp" in memory, perhaps ever. This is CLEARLY an establishment (I avoided it in the past because it looked chain-like, and didn't fit any stereotyped standards, and it IS kind of a chain) that actually produces thoughtful, carefully/systematically prepared product (fried product, I admit) of rare QUALITY (it appears to appeal to a certain ethnic stratum - - one that DEFINITELY knows what great food is!). It puts the rest of take-out civilizatiton to shame, and it is great to have a place like this on the east-sider radar that can offer things 12-shades of tasty at very good prices with very rare dedication to righteous ingredients prepared with great attention to (o.k., it is fried food - - but wow!) detail.