Hymel’s closing for good!

No way. What’s the explanation since I’m not on FB?

There is a post from late November about rumors and troubles. I'm guessing that it's as simple as business tanking somewhere along the way and they couldn't find a buyer to get out (or maybe didn't want to), so they decided to close the doors. The closed bridge cutting off all those customers on the other side of the river for the last few months couldn't have helped business, either.

Ok. I just heard that possibly a near by plant bought them out for the land, but I'm not familiar with the area and that could just be talk. You know how them Ascension folks are.

The only time I ate there, within the last8~10 years, I could smell the gas pumps outside from the inside. Nothing special about the food, but the small beer glasses like my dad used to get when he went to bars (50 years ago) when I went to the bar and not sat in the car (sometimes for hours) was pretty nostalgic, in a self demeaning way.... frick you dad, I hope you rot in Hell... :)
Not really. There is no Hell, and, if there was, I wouldn't want him to rot in it. Still, i miss the chance that I never got to kick him in the nuts... but, again, I digress, and I shouldn't drink and post...

Good to see you learned from your dad's habits

Terrible food and a JACKa$$$ behind the bar.

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Still, i miss the chance that I never got to kick him in the nuts

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I liked the food there pretty good. Jumbo shrimp were pretty amazing.

Way overrated and I’m not upset. Neighbors swear we had to try it....after a 40 minute drive I wanted to kill them after that waste of money

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A lot of average on the menu, with a few shining stars such as a fried dozen jumbo shrimp (but for some reason the regular fried shrimp were just okay), boiled seafood was always on point, stuffed flounder was great when they had it. Just part of a by gone era of fry house/bar type place that always had crackers and butter on the table

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Exactly. They did a few things right. I loved the fried jumbo shrimp and was always my go to order with a big fishbowl of beer.

James, the arse hat behind the bar and the owner, was definitely a turn off to me. It took that guy decades to figure out customers would like bathrooms that were cleaner than than a 7-11 store in Tijuana. They were disgusting to say the least for decades until just recently. A couple of times he told me in the bar they had no draft beer when in fact they have draft beer. Its just in the back bar and he's too lazy or was too lazy to get what a customer wanted. He was part of the demise and the fact that they turned to Asian fish and abandoned US grown catfish to save money. Still though i'll miss the old place.