Catfish King - Atlanta

This is no longer a restaurant with servers, it's all self service. The food is fair, but they were out of many things.

No coleslaw, beans, tomato relish, or onion included with the overpriced catfish plates anymore. The drive through menu looks like it is written on toilet paper. No wonder the parking lot is always empty. Unfortunately they will be closed like all the others very soon.

So we were just passing thru Atlanta tx. at 7:30pm on a Friday night which is 1 hour from our home and rarely do we pass thru here anymore. Sadly we don't have Catfish king in or around Longview tx anymore. They close at 8pm or in 30 minutes so that's kind of a thing to avoid in my rule book but we stopped anyways. The workers were very helpful and friendly. My wife and I both got 7 piece (regular not spicy) fried Catfish plates comes with 2 sides (we had fries coleslaw) $16 each and an order of excellent onion rings. The picture I posted is the fish leftovers. As you can see the filets are big and they were prepared perfect. Nothing fancy just good ol Catfish in cornmeal batter. The way its supposed to be in my opinion. It was all excellent! For those who are familiar with David Beards Catfish king restaurants. They do not have a salad bar. They do not have an all you can eat buffet. They do not have David's hush puppies or I didn't see them if they do but The ones they have are excellent and They don't have jalapeno in them so the wife was happy They do have free beans. I seen complaints about the buildings appearance needing updated But for those who don't know The rustic log cabin look of the restaurant inside and out was their thing 40 years ago (just like it's cracker barrels thing is now) so it's not a lack of updating or not putting money back into the business it's by design. The restaurant was very clean including the rest rooms. So with that being said Did we just catch them on a good night? I don't know but I doubt it. Will we be back absolutely!

The food was delicious. The catfish was thick and cooked perfectly. The hush puppies were fantastic. Will definitely go back.

The food was not as good as the last time I was there. Had two different waitresses to take care of us, one was super rude to the point that she tossed our order number, pen and receipt to us and the other waitress was very nice. Do not plan on returning.