Best Fried Catfish in BR?

Posted by REG861

Ocelot, Iowa

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 8:41 pm to Sisyphus

parrains

Posted by rollindaddy

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 8:51 pm to REG861

just had some outstanding ones at dempsys with mornay sauce on top

Posted by notiger1997

Metairie

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 8:53 pm to Sisyphus

Anyone in BR serve wild raised catfish?

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Posted by Remo Williams

The Home of the Brave

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:02 pm to Sisyphus

Parrains>George's.

Middendorfs /thread

Posted by Spock's Eyebrow

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:03 pm to Artie Rome

George's is good. Brewbacher's on Bluebonnet is good. I've finally decided I don't like Sammy's. It's just consistently godawful salty, and hell I'd rather have Piccadilly, which is probably basa. Same thing with Sammy's fries.

Posted by 4LSU2

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:04 pm to Remo Williams

Are you saying that Middendorf's is the best fried catfish in BR?

Posted by Martini

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:09 pm to notiger1997

quote:
? Anyone in BR serve wild raised catfish?

Probably not anymore but when I was a kid I everyone used Amite River catfish or Bayou Des Allmonds.

But the farm raised catfish industry has come a long, long way in the last 30 years. I knew a lot of people who jumped into it in the mid 70's and lost their arse and the product was really poor. Since then it has consolidated, the aquaculture has gotten very clean and Purina has developed much better feed for the fish. I don't fish for catfish much anymore so I eat the farm raised and I can live with that.

Posted by Walt OReilly

Poplarville, MS

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:21 pm to Artie Rome

Really never been a fan of George's but I do like their fried catfish

They still have the catfish as their Friday lunch special?

Posted by Jones

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:25 pm to notiger1997

quote:
Anyone in BR serve wild raised catfish?

Is there such a thing?

Posted by Icansee4miles

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:27 pm to Clark W Griswold

I actually like Crawfords. After Smokie's shenanigans with the food trucks, he will never get another dime from me. Parrian's does a good job. What was the AYCE in Central a hundred years ago? Silvio's?

Posted by LouisianaLady

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:29 pm to notiger1997

quote:
Anyone in BR serve wild raised catfish?

Dempseys switched from farm to wild, and that shite was awful, so they went back to farm.

But that might have been related to where they got them or whatever.

Posted by VOR

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:32 pm to LouisianaLady

quote:
and that shite was awful

Watch that language, young lady.

Posted by Dorothy

Munchkinland

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:49 pm to Sisyphus

Not a restaurant, but Matherne's deli has really good catfish. You have to get it when it's freshly cooked though--if it's been sitting out it gets dry (like most deli foods do under heat lamps).

Posted by Artie Rome

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Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:58 pm to Walt OReilly

quote:
Really never been a fan of George's but I do like their fried catfish They still have the catfish as their Friday lunch special?

I hear you. And yes. Still have the catfish special on Fridays. It's enough for two people. Their fries are the suck.

Posted by Layabout

Baton Rouge

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Posted on 8/12/14 at 12:02 am to Sisyphus

A little off the radar, but Goodwood Grill at the corner of Goodwood and Tara has become my Friday night catfish go-to place. One order will feed two people.

This post was edited on 8/12/14 at 12:04 am