I normally don't write reviews but my aunt referred me to the establishment. I had a catfish dinner with French fries and collar greens, the price $15 dollars. What an expensive meal for the portions provided--1 piece of catfish and 2 small sides. There food ratio in size does not warrant the $15 dollar price tag rounded up. Its hard to keep customers wanting to come back if their experience was not satisfying on the first time placing an order. Although the catfish was moist and good overall it did not wow me for the amount of money paid. If we want our black businesses to flourish you have to come better than 1piece of catfish when the name of the establishment is branded as catfish cafe, hence the reason I made my selection. If you are opened to work on the business model then you may be willing to make the adjustments by making the first customer experience satisfying otherwise catfish cafe will be out to sea forever! read more

This was my favorite seafood joint a few years ago when they were closer to Farmers Blvd. They disappeared for awhile and now they are back. I had the seafood platter but I asked for the tilapia and shrimp grilled/broiled and the catfish fried. They did exactly as I asked. They also have grilled salmon and I will try that next time. I'm glad that they are back, especially since they now have the sit down restaurant. read more

I had catfish, greens, Mac&cheese and ice tea. The food was great, everything had flavor and the ice tea was sweet and you could still taste the lemon flavor, without being over powered by the lemon flavor. This location stayed packed, people were constantly coming in and out of the business, for pickups and to place orders as well. They also deleiver. read more

Update‼‼ Food is not as good as it was a few yrs ago... Way too salty now. Mac & Cheese is ok now it used to be on point, but now it's just ok! All I can say is Awesome!!! The food is Great!! Price are reasonable, and the staff are pleasant!! In this area there's really no good soul food restaurant , but once you taste there food you will keep coming back!! I've been to this place several times and never have I've been disappointed yet!! Everything thing that I've taste so far was good or great!! (I'm a very picky eater)... Lol *** Mac & Cheese, Collard Greens, & Shrimp is a must have*** It's melts in your mouth!!! The setting is very relaxing, and the music is very soothing!! read more

I purposely waited until coming here twice to review. I was told the place was hit & miss. I've determined this to be true. The first time I visited I had a pretty pleasant experience . The food was good , my order was ready within the pick up time they gave me and although the decor is nothing to brag about the restaurant was packed on a Sunday night as everyone watched power. As I said I had an overall pleasant experience. Returning the second time the food wasn't as great as the first time , I waited an extra 20 minutes upon the time they gave me over the phone and I noticed the unprofessional staff other yelpers have mentioned. I will probably return after a while to let them redeem themselves. read more

Catfish Cafe - Fisherman's platter , Mac , collards & black eyed peas. - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

The food is always good Yelp jus took forever to send my already paid for order to the restaurant smh

Longest freaking wait time everrrrr.... Ordered on Yelp, food came I would say an 1 & 45 mins later. The food smelt wonderful the only thing is that the food is super bland. Hubby said Mac & cheese was made with a lot of cottage cheese. I thought it was okay. My shrimp was wonderful but I just wish they supplied tater sauce.... A lot of food given which is another pro... Just don't know if I'll order from them again read more

Catfish Cafe - Fried shrimp with potato salad & Mac and cheese and hubby had the seafood platter with collard greens & Mac and cheese - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

Didn't feel like going out first night in town. So I ordered in to the hotel room. They said would take about 45 minutes to arrive, food got here in 40 minutes nice and hot. We ordered catfish nuggets with side of mac & cheese and the whiting dinner. The fish was seasoned well and the mac and cheese reminded me of Sunday dinner at grandma's house. Belly rubbing good eating. Keep up the good cooking! Will be back. read more

The food here is amazing, I got fried chicken wings mac and cheese and corn. The fried chicken was perfectly golden brown and seasoned. The mac and cheese tastes great and is not box mac and cheese the traditional mac and cheese like momma makes. The corn was good as well. Try to get the banana pudding for desert if you can it's amazing but usually gets sold out quick. I recommend anyone to come to this black owned business. The food usually takes some time to make because it is freshly made so you can't rush freshness (15-30mins). read more

Got a coupon from Groupon 2 dinners and dessert Fish dinner w/yams & string beans Fried chicken w/mac & cheese & collards the yams were the bomb - 5**** stars! the chicken was good along with the other food....now the whiting, dem deserve to get a one. The scales were fried on the fish! ugh! read more

I must say I don't like leaving bad reviews however, after reading these reviews I must be honest. I pass this place all of the time and see people hanging out side. One day I decided let me check out the food and not let the people out side determine what's inside. I went inside and the person that was taking the orders was not professional and looked like she was in her house hanging out. She was in the phone and didn't seemed interested in taking my order. After I waited about 3 min I left never tasted the food. It's a shame after reading the reviews seeing that the food is good I would never go there again the customer service is poor from the experience I had and as one of the reviews said the young lady at the front didn't look nor behave in a professional manner at all. read more

I decided to order from this place from reading the review. I am sad to say it was a HUGE disappointment for me and my family. . The MAC and Cheese had way too much egg. We ordered grilled shrimp, mac & cheese, southern fried chicken with waffles, fried whiting and potato salad. The foods was not that great. read more

I ordered fried chicken wings, macaroni & cheese, and collard greens but it was the worse meal I've had in my life!!! The fried chicken had long black hair fried into it, the macaroni and cheese has cheese crumbling in it (who makes it like that? It was gross! The collard greens, you can taste the vinegar in it. Over all this meal was not worth $24!!!!!! I actually enjoyed the late night meals but who ever makes the food in the day needs to be fired immediately!!!! This meal was unacceptable and you've lost a customer...... To actually think I used to travel miles to queens just for your food, not anymore!!!! read more

Food quality is horrible & so Is Customer service . Both times eating from here the cook looked very dirty and unpleasant. Also no one was wearing mask . read more

Love their food here. My favorite food is soul food and seafood so this spot is like heaven to me. read more

Catfish Cafe - Blackened Catfish (my favorite), mac n cheese and collard greens... - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

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Its very good I love all there food and deserts and they are very nice people and the food is cheap the even take ebt lol read more

Catfish Cafe - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

My husband had ordered the turkey wings last week and they were excellent. We wanted them again but they didn't have any so I ordered fried chicken wings, shrimp & whiting. All three BLAND BLAND BLAND. They all tasted like they just dipped them in flour and egg. I also ordered mashed potatoes and Mac & cheese as my sides. Apparently they didn't have mashed potatoes so they sent double Mac & cheese without asking. Black eyed peas were under cooked and hard. So the moral is if they don't have turkey wings I don't want anything. read more

Catfish Cafe - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

The food is Grade A! I enjoyed everything. I had the Seafood platter with macaroni and cheese and candied yams. EVERYTHING was well seasoned, flavorful and perfect honestly. I really can't wait to go back. You can dine in or take out as well. You're left to your own devices if you dine in though. Not much service going on, but the staff was very nice. This is my new favorite soul food and fish spot. I highly recommend it. read more

Catfish Cafe - Seafood Platter sub Catfish for extra shrimp with Macaroni & Cheese and Candied Yams. I can't wait to have it again! - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

Catfish Cafe....what can I say. Let me start by saying this restaurant id definitely a gem in the Southside Jamaica area. I've ordered from them quite a few times and have had 0 issues with the food. The catfish is the best I've had in the area, the collard greens taste like spruced up canned greens, delicious none the less. Their home fries are decent. My boyfriend enjoys the sweet potatoes and mac & cheese but I haven't tasted those. Despite decent food...steer clear of delivery. On the 4 times I've ordered delivery, all 4 times have been a delivery time of 1.5 hours and they are literally up the street. Earlier today I ordered at 1:11pm. My food was JUST delivered at 3:34. Thats just ridiculous. And then you have the nerve to charge a delivery fee? Catfish Cafe, get your delivery service together please read more

Their shrimp scampi-- (many shrimp, very flavorful) is really good however you have to place your order a year in advance. Stay traditional. Salmon croquettes were tasteless, dry and not worth the money. Take out only Resturant needs a major overhaul. Wouldn't recommend dining in. Also note: I placed a to go order and it took several hours to fulfill. The quality of the food and proximity to home Keeps us returning. read more

Catfish nuggets are superb! The mac n cheese is great if your looking for true southern baked mac. It's not too salty but that is fine with me. Others may want to add salt. The yams are typical yams and they arent mashed. I've tried ordering out as well as dining in. If you are ordering out call well in advance because the phone line can be busy. Once you get through ypur wait for your food is no more than 15 mins. I've found the staff when dining in to be very accommodating, helpful and mannerful. The half and half iced tea was amazing and served in a large plastic container that can serve two people. read more

Catfish Cafe - Catfish nuggets. Mac n cheese, candied yams- dine in - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

I never write reviews but I had to do this one because this is the worst food I have ever gotten from a take out service. I ordered BBQ chicken and I got an order of mashed up BBQ wings. They tasted like old chicken. I ordered 8 pieces fried chicken that was undercooked and tasteless. Seasoned rice, wow what was it seasoned with because it was also tasteless. I ordered collard greens and never got it. I give it no stars because 1 star would be to good. I paid 70 dollars for garbage. Never again. Let me say it again. NEVER AGAIN. read more

Catfish Cafe - This is the type of food they send to customers at the catfish cafe. BBQ chicken was more like only BBQ mashed up wings - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

Ordered sides only and a tea. Greens were bland. Sweet potatoes were too sweet, Mac and cheese was so so. The tea and cornbread were goooooood lol. It's 24 hrs and prices are reasonable. I might come back... read more

Had the most horrible Uber eats experience today with this place. I placed an order at 6pm and didn't receive it until about 8:15pm and things were missing. While waiting for the order I received multiple calls from the restaurant about the restaurant not having things that we ordered. After all of that we need to replace an out of stock item and settled on salmon and specifically asked for it to be cooked medium well. Welp that was a waste of time because the salmon arrive unrecognizable. (See pic). Not to mention that my catfish dinner that comes with 2 sides was all placed in one metal container so now my Mac and cheese taste like candied yams and my fried catfish was soggy from sitting on top of mushy yams and now mushy mac from the yam juice. Huge disappointment especially when calling for a resolution and speaking to "nice" rude people. I never want to have food from this place again. read more

Catfish Cafe - Unrecognizable grilled salmon - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

So I have never visited the actual business. I don't know what the restaurant looks like as I have only ordered delivery. I have never been disappointed by the food the three random times I've had it delivered. It's well seasoned and cooked. This last delivery was interesting in that the restaurant failed to tell me that they were out of peach cobbler and didn't bother to call to tell me or include a substitute. The driver of the delivery took it upon himself to stop at a random restaurant and purchase a slice of carrot cake to provide substitute!!!!!! I'm pretty impressed by that move but as I can't give him the credit, the restaurant gets it but I hope someone there sees this and realizes what an exceptional guy they have working for them read more

1. Waited 2 hours for delivery 2. Food was cold overall! 3. French Fries= Raw, and uncooked 4. Potatoe Salad= Watery/Runny 5. Collard Greens= Barely Seasoned 6. Whiting = Good but Cold 7. Mac & Cheese = Good but cold 8. Shrimps = Good but cold 9. Kool Aid= Slamming First time ordering from this place, will I order again? HEAVENS NO! read more

My friemds ordered from Uber eats and raved about the food so I went to the restaurant to try it...BIG MISTAKE . The worst service EVER!!! There were 2 hostesses sitting at a table, one on the phone the other in a hoodie starring into space. After waiting for 5min I asked if anyone worked there. Neither of them wanted to stop what they were doing to take my order. The girl in the hoodie came to take my order only after a man from the kitchen yelled at them. After I placed my order I heard loud cursing and commotion coming from the kitchen. Apparently a fight was taking place with the ppl in the kitchen.. I asked for my $$ and left. I luv to support black owned but this place will NEVER get my $$. read more

Terrible. Went in for a job interview at 2:30 and ended up getting skipped despite being there early. Lady at desk was loud and ghetto, rolled her eyes at people who said they'd been waiting for food for an hour and talked loud on phone only to vanish into back and come back out to be back on her own phone. Her and another woman spoke rudely behind a customers back as she left and continued with their hood rat laughter as they ignored several phone calls. Manager flirted with woman who skipped me entire time and waited almost two hours before he finished and vanished into back and when I asked if i should come back I got same high school brat laugh so I just left. Place was dirty, everything was sticky-Hot-Nasty just DISGUSTING. It would have been an EASY job because everyone was lazy,unprofessional and just GHETTO! I wish I could have tried food but that would have been an extra hour. read more

The food I must say was excellent but the hospitality and wait time there is absolutely horrible. They have you wait for an hour or more for your food. There's absolutely no customer service at all. I've been there 3 times and each time there was an exhausting wait time. The staff act like they don't want to be and I will never recommend this place to anyone. I gave them another try by calling to get it delivered and no one showed up for over 2 hours.They ignore your phone calls and don't answer if you try calling from another line. So if your really hungry I suggest you find another soul food restaurant because the experiences I've had at this place are not worth it for some food. read more

This is a new Soul Food joint that just open up....that make the best Catfish and Queens.. they make good mac and cheese and collard greens.

Best southern food I have ever had in New York City. Had the fried catfish, collard greens, and mac & cheese. Fried catfish was extremely moist and flavorful, in a cornmeal batter that was perfectly seasoned. Collard greens were excellent, with something added that gave them a strong sweetness. Mac & cheese was a little too wet, but who cares? The cornbread was also fantastic. Wait time for a lunch is about 15 minutes, but it is worth it. read more

Horrible service and its worst because the food is good, I've waited 2 hours for delivery and not one of my phone calls about the time it would be delivered was answered, there are 20 outgoing calls to this place in my call log! Just gonna take this loss and never order again ! read more

Disappointing just disappointing!!! I ordered at 525p and my food arrived at 745p. The driver was 5 minutes away for over an hour. My food was freezing cold. Additional note, I was at the Hilton Garden Inn which is just over 2 miles from this place, an 8 to 10 minute ride!! 2 hours and 20 minutes on a Monday.. for 2 dinners and an appetizer!!!! Unacceptable!! That delivery driver was unprofessional!!! read more

I ordered here a couple of weeks ago and I was disappointed. I enjoying adding salt to almost anything but the food here was extremely salty. Therefore, I can't fathom the thought of going back. read more

Negative a thousand stars. This place needs to be shut down . I have never in my entire life experienced a situation like this in any restaurant that I decided to eat at . I purchased a Groupon which entitles me to get two entrées and a dessert I call to make an order first of all they only had banana pudding so I asked for a substitution of a side of fries. After waiting about 40 minutes in total I picked up my food. I should have opened the container and check before I left but I trusted that the food would be OK. I got home and opened my husbands container just to find the tilapia was broken apart and only that it was burnt!!!!! I was so pissed because we were starving. They always gave me seasoned rice in the past I guess they ran out so they gave me some bland tasteless ass white rice. My entrée was fine but the side of fries they gave me was so damn oily like I could literally drain oil from my container and fry my own chicken. Then to make matters worse I called and asked to speak to the manager and the girl told me that manager is not in so I explained to her my situation and all she had to say was I'll take your name and number , like are you really kidding me right. So basically I'm supposed to just sit there hungry with some nasty food and wait for a manager to call me back. So i got horrible food AND CUSTOMER SERVICE. I would never even step foot inside this place again. read more

Catfish Cafe - Burnt tilapia. Stale rice. Presentation sucked. Worst place ever! - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

I used to frequent the place due to their food being very tasty so yesterday being in the mood for chicken and waffles I decided to order it and pick it up. I placed 3 orders of chicken and waffles for my family and I and boy were we disappointed. The food was awful. Not sure what happened because it used to be so tasty but this was just bad. We wound up throwing it all away. We will not be going back. read more

Went last nite bc I had a groupon. Walking in, the place was skeevy. It was def not appealing and there were flies but we thought, "food is usually good at these hole in the wall places". Well we were WRONG! I had chicken and biscuits-chicken lacked flavor, wasn't crispy and steak fries were soggy with oil! Gross I almost yacked! My hubby had the seafood platter which wasn't part of the groupon but the only edible thing were the shrimp. The whiting wasn't crispy and smelled old. Service is slow and they can't get your order right. Best part was red velvet cake and free corn muffin they bring. We wouldn't visit this place ever again-not for free read more

This place is the worst ever.... ordered a cheeseburger deluxe got burnt cheese burger on a toast... waited almost 30 mins for order n this is this the crap that i got. Never going there ever!! read more

Catfish Cafe - Soul Food Near Me - Jamaica, New York

Omg!!!! I ordered the seafood platter with Mac n cheese n candied yams also the chicken n waffles and I'm in total heaven. This is definitely a great spot even though I had it delivered the delivery guy was also pleasant along with my hot fresh delicious food. I love it!!!! read more

So I got the macaroni and cheese twice -- the second time was a total accident smh but both times it tasted like they dumped a bunch of salt in it. Wouldn't reccomend, but I would give them another chance and try something else since it's so close to home. Staying faaaar, far away from the mac & cheese, though and I'd suggest everyone do the same. read more