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    Catfish Cabin

    2.9 (67 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    CATFISH CABIN ATMOSPHERE

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    Casual
    Quiet
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    Starters, Salads and Sandwiches
    Candace K.

    This is a no frills catfish restaurant with blue plastic table cloths and standard black chairs. with friendly employees. I had the crab claw platter with baked potato and hubby had 8 piece catfish platter. Meals came with hush puppies and coleslaw. Crab claws and catfish were decent but needed more seasonings. The catfish fillets were more like nuggets or fingers instead of an actual filet. A place to try at least once if you're in the Athens, AL area.

    Fried Green Tomatoes and Onions rings

    Customer service wasn't that good. We ask for catfish fillets and receive Catfish nuggets or whatever was left over. The Only Thing That Was Really good was The fried Green tomatoes.

    This is the most abysmal looking food...
    David B.

    A friend and I went in there this afternoon at 3:30pm today. Needless to say, what we experienced was total blasphemy in foodservice... We stood at the door for about 10 minutes while several people passed us by, finally a server came and seated us. She gave us the menus at the table and then took our drink orders and then took off. She then came back to the table with silverware, 2 bowls of coleslaw, and a basket of hushpuppies. No plates, no condiments for the hushpuppies or anything. **My friend noticed behind me a couple that had been sitting with menus while we were being initially seated, no drinks on the table or anything, and they got up and left. If I had known this, I would have exited right then and there because that means they were never waited on to start with.** Well she brings our drinks out, setting them in front of the wrong person of course. Then she took our order... Ordered items: Appetizer sampler: $12.49 3 diff items: onion rings/fried green tomatoes/fried pickles, served with ranch and honey mustard Large Seafood Platter: $18.99 4 of each item: Catfish filet, fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, fried oyster, a single stuffed crab, and a house salad w/ranch. (this entree included a potato *either fries or baked potato* hushpuppies and coleslaw (or you could upcharge $2 for a house salad to replace the coleslaw) **My question is this? Why are you charging me more for a salad to replace coleslaw that you've already brought to the table?** She then mentions there's a $2 upcharge on the oysters and this didn't make sense since they were listed ON THE MENU at that price point and included on the entree. I had to try to question her and finally say "You mean the price is higher than what's listed due to market price?" and she said "Yes, that's what it means." Choice of Two: $16.99 3 blackened catfish filets, a stuffed crab, and fries and a house salad w/ranch. (Again, this included the potato option, hushpuppies and coleslaw, so lather/rinse/repeat with that argument above) I stepped away for a moment, and when I came back about 4 minutes later, the salads and the appetizer was sitting on the table. A few minutes later, our server came back and asked if we wanted any more hushpuppies and drink refills and we obliged. She returned with drink refills, but no hushpuppies. Few minutes later, when we're about halfway through the appetizer and almost done with the salads, I see my friend look up acknowledging our server had arrived to my blind side with our food. She then sets down a plate of whole catfish and fries in front of me. I immediately turn to look and on the serving tray she has a hamburger and fries on there also. I then tell her that "This is not our order" and then she realized her mistake and picked it up and put it back on the tray and took off... We finish off the appetizer/salads finally and then she returns to the table about 10 minutes later (after the table sat next to us that came in about 5 minutes after we initially sat had their order and were eating already). She puts the ticket down on the table and asks "Would y'all like any dessert?" "Where's our FOOD we ordered?" "Let me go check on it and see what's the holdup" Roughly 10 minutes pass. Food sat on the table, it's practically cold, and I noticed there are no oysters on my plate at all. I asked to see a menu and pointed out that the oysters are missing from the plate. The server then states "Well he said we were almost out, but I figured he would have covered my order before they ran out. I can get something to replace it if you like?" I went about skimming the menu doing quick math in my head and agreed to get 4 additional fried shrimp to compensate for the alacarte cost of the oysters on the plate. She brings them out shortly after and we finally get to eat. *The blackened catfish fillets were more like "catfish cheeks" they were so small, not even a single full filet size altogether* We finished eating and left and had to explain to the person at the cash register that there were no oysters on the order and not to charge extra for it. Still, this meal came out to be $62 in total, which for Sysco heat'n'eat is RIDICULOUS. Needless to say, this place isn't worth the drive nor the money.

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    Love the catfish filets, slaw is awesome, window service is very fast and the waitress are so kind and efficient.

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    9 months ago

    Really good food and service. Great atmosphere. Really enjoyed everything. Fried catfish and shrimp came out hot!

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    11 months ago

    I have eaten here for years and my experience has always been excellent! Really good food and extremely good tartar sauce! Love it

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    Very good fish, slaw and hush puppies. I love stopping here when I'm in Athens. Give it a try if you're in town.

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    5 years ago

    This time it was just ok. Hush puppies were still good but the fish was salty and had too much 'belly' meat. Last trip here for us.

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