This place is a gem in the heart of Clarksdale. The staff is very friendly and attentive. And there is seating available both inside and out. But the real story is the food. Starting with the appetizers, we sampled the Buffalo Eggplant and Mushrooms and loved the flavor profile of this dish. Especially when you paired it with an ice cold beer. For my entrée, I selected the Blackened Catfish. Wow! So tender and spiced perfectly. And married well with the rice and cream sauce. I highly recommend. read more

Food was great tonight! Cooked perfectly. Drinks were awesome as well. But the wait was not good today. (45 minutes before drinks and over an hour before food) We understood because it was crowded and quite busy. Then at checkout our check was mixed up with another table. We paid the ticket then noticed the ticket items were incorrect. They cancelled the charge but our money could not be added back to our card right away and we had to pay the correct bill. Unexpected expense and very inconvenient. Not a good night of service but overall a nice place to eat in Clarksdale. read more

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Understood to be the nicest dining spot in town. Cool ambiance. Food was pretty good. I had the fried shrimp basket with a salad instead of fries and cold slaw. 8 huge shrimp fried perfectly. Young server tried so hard but got everything wrong. Ranch instead of Bleu Cheese. Sweet tea instead of unsweetened. Fried catfish instead of fried shrimp. read more

The place was adorable. The bar had amazing drinks. The nacho app was great. The 3 star review is for the steak. The steak was thin, flavorless, tough and overcooked. I expected a much better steak for $36. The presentation was sloppy. The potatoes had no flavor. The salad was good and the ranch dressing tasted homemade. We wanted the pork chop but they were sold out. I wish we had just eaten dinner at ground zero. read more

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Our server was good but she was overwhelmed and no help from others she may have been new no fault to her but it took forever. Salmon under Steak Over asked for the manager but they said he was busy but we were literally looking at him on his phone. Barman was amazing. Going to be hard to bring clients back here for juke joint I heard it was declining saw it in person - read more

This was our favorite place to eat in Clarksdale. The space was great: like a jukebox joint, but clean and inviting. We had a drink at the bar while we waited for a table, entertained by the very engaging barman. My fall salad was excellent and substantial. My body wasn't sure what to make of all the veggies after several days in the Deep South! read more

Man I was honestly really excited to try this place. I'm from out of town and my hotel is really close, and when I see gulf shrimp on a menu in a Mississippi town, I'm thinking how can I go wrong? I know what I want to order and it's the shrimp and grits, because I saw this photo that someone posted on yelp when they had it. So I order the chicken pot stickers as my app and the s and g as my main. The service was good! But this is a food review not a service review. I get the potstickers and instantly I can tell they are store bought from the freezer aisle because I've bought the same ones at Sam's Then the main arrives. Remember this is a $24 plate. The dish looks nothing like it does in the picture nor is it like it's described on the menu. The dish in this photo looks like it was freshly made to order and full of flavor. My dish showed up on a small/medium sized boat shaped bowl with 4-5 shrimp on top with the shells attached. Never in my life have I seen it served this way. So then I notice the grits have zero onions, bacon and peppers like the menu says, and I couldn't taste any garlic. The shrimp were not gulf shrimp nor were they cooked with the dish. They were definitely store bought shrimp. The kind that you get on the shrimp tray with the cocktail sauce, and they weren't hot all of the way through. They were lukewarm. The bread it was served with was definitely that boxed garlic bread you can pickup at any grocery store. Did I eat it? Yes because I was hungry after driving 3 hours trying to get to my next destination. Would I recommend it? Only if they made a commitment to switching the dish back to what it was originally. Food aside, the place has a great feel to it and I like the outdoor seating. read more

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This is one of mine and my husband favorite spots to go have supper. Food is always on point. Drinks too, the service is also excellent, love all of the staff. And the atmosphere is great too. read more

Hooker Grocer & Eatery - Catfish platter. onion rings and kids cheeseburger and fries. - Southern Near Me - Clarksdale, Mississippi

Love eating at this spot! Make sure you time your dinner with the music performance. Indoor and outdoor seating, big portions and well made food. read more

Great food in a cool small town. Don't be scared by looks of all outsides! Everyone in the town was super nice. Great music everywhere!!

Our chef, Michael, came by to get an assessment of the meal - we'd already raved to our server. I had fried catfish on a bed of "Gouda grits" with an ettoufe (shrimp stock, gouda, andouille sausage, celery, etc.) plus a side of steakhouse spinach (sauce of heavy cream, onions, bacon) while Deb & Kim shared a monster hamburger and seasonal salad. read more

Charming design and the food was great. I'm a vegetarian and they made a salad and garlic green beans which were the perfect dinner. Will come back. read more

Pleasant surprise! The food was excellent. Best fried rice I've ever had. The night I visited was Asian Night. According to my waitress the specials change nightly and the special menu varies from week to week. Items on the regular menu looked great too. I saw several plates coming out to other tables and it all looked good. Will definitely come back next time I'm in town. read more

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Wonderful atmosphere and great food. The salmon was superb. Dinner was reasonably priced and outside seating was available. Service was outstanding! read more

Absolutely top notch experience. The interior is warm and welcoming. The cocktails are delicious. The food is delicious. Most importantly, the front of the house is well run. Our server (Sara) was friendly and attentive. The kitchen was slowed the night we stopped in by a 20-top reservation that turned into 40 people an event that would destroy most places. Hooker handled it properly - keeping us informed and hydrated while the kitchen caught up. A top notch experience and a must stop in Clarksdale. read more

This place was amazing! I can not even begin to give this restaurant a review that can appropriately articulate how wonderful everything tasted! We all walked away saying it was one of the best meals we had ever had. Service was great as well. Overall wonderful experience. read more

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The food here is good. The building is nice. The bartender is great. The rest of the service is terrible. Our food was delivered and we were never checked on again. We wanted a drink. We wanted desert. We wanted to pay our bill. No one ever came to our table. I finally asked the bartender if I could just pay him so we could leave. He is the only person who took care of us. read more

Great food and great atmosphere, the service was amazing. They have a stellar food. Steaks and fish and they have a bartender that know his stuff. read more

Be ready for some incredible ambience and great food. The flooring is authentic, the service is authentic, and a great selection of beers to enjoy. Loved the pimento rice balls as well as the succotash, mind you not a traditional succotash, much much better! Wonderful service from centrific people and clearly a well-loved restaurant in this area. Too bad we were traveling otherwise I would have scarfed up some homemade bread and stuffed my face for days on. read more

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Great new edition to Clarksdale! Open for lunch and dinner! Every time I've eaten here, there is not a morsel left on my plate! They've also started opening on Saturday and Sundays for brunch!! Awesome spot to buy prime meats and seafood! Friendly place too! Casual atmosphere. Close to Delta Blues Museum. Full bar. read more

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Visiting from out of town and this place was recommended by several locals and it exceeded recommendations. Wow! The food and service was incredible. We had the Japanese popcorn chicken appetizer and it was delicious. Our server, Sara recommend the blackened catfish and it was incredible. A lot of places over spice blackened seasoning but it was seasoned perfectly. Had a good beer and wine selection as well. Highly recommend and will definitely come back. Ask for Sara! read more

Clarksdale's comeback is bound to include some poor choices among its new attractions. Such was ours tonight in deciding to eat at Hookers. Loud. Baseball game on TV. Mostly uncomfortable seating. Ambiance is suburban mall. Anyplace in the Mississippi Delta that serves catfish (Catfish!) this bad should be ashamed to open its doors. What is pictured in all fairness is what's left after I ate the one sardine sized piece of actual fish I paid $16 for. The rest was oily, fried batter. Fries were pure Sysco. The hamburger we had was dry and totally without taste. The 2 tablespoons of "slaw" was about 50% parsley. I'd like to say something good about this place but even the waitress looked like she was doing community service. Clientele looked to be mostly white lawyer's families in weekend casual and a few t-shirted tourists. Yes, we left with the blues. Try anyplace else. read more

Hooker Grocer & Eatery - Does this look like tasty Catfish? - Southern Near Me - Clarksdale, Mississippi

Outstanding! I had smash burger with fried egg, my wife had gumbo. Both excellent. Friendly staff. Highly recommended... read more

Great service , Good atmosphere. Love this place Highly recommend. Love love love this place. A must see

I usually give a one star for the server. But yeah no she didn't even get one this time. So let's start. Busy night. Ok festival season. Ohhh wait!!! You mean they didn't know it was festival season? They weren't expecting to be super busy? How were they to know that they would have a heavy influx of people.. Reader tourist fellow blues lover this towns main industry and revenue is tourism. That is you and I. They knew you were coming. The eating establishments in town just don't care, they want your dollars, with out putting in the effort. Our waitress showed up to an outside table. I ordered a sprite, and she left. (Now let me tell you why they serve the soda in a can, it is so they can charge you for refills). No glass of ice, no straw, just a can of sprite. Which started out cold. But was Luke warm by the time she shows back up. He ordered the fried shrimp and salad and fries. He got two of the items, the salad never showed. French fries were room temperature by the time he got them. I ordered the chicken Parmesan it comes with a salad. The sauce was actually quite good.. no cheese on top And the angel hair pasta were not properly drained before being placed on the plate making the chicken soggy and the sauce a little watery. All in all this was one of the better meals we had . The salad never showed up. I ordered a blonde brownie thing it also never showed up. The waitress brought two drinks. Took our order. Delivered our plates and we never seen her again. We could have walked out with out paying. But instead I went to look for her over an hour later, after we had gotten our food. And asked about our salads. And the brownie. She looks at the receipt in her pocket and says we didn't ask for salads, I replied it is included in the dinner we ordered. Her look of "oh crap another person is going to yell at me,". Said it all, I said it is ok. Never mind we need to go. 38dollars after she gave us a discount. And if you wonder I always tip the server, I don't blame them ever! I blame the management and the owners for allowing such overwhelming circumstances one waitress for a packed outdoors would have had a hard time. But for one waitress to do both inside and out. That is Once again slack, shoddy service from the owner and management all because we are tourist. Wasn't the servers fault. read more

Great place in a great town! The food was the best we had in a week-long trip through TN & MS! Shrimp & Grits, Gumbo, & Hoppin' John were all unbelievable! Hot, fresh, homemade!! The only place in town open serving cocktails & they made it worth it! As they had the only tv around, they were more than happy to let us watch our team in the Cotton Bowl! I can't say enough about the people! Service was above & beyond! As we found in all of MS that we visited, they were very welcoming & friendly. Great bunch! read more

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From Nashville and I would never suggest this place to anyone visiting. I'm really not sure how this place has such high reviews. First, the inside of the building doesn't look like it's up to code AT ALL. The inside alone will give a very icky vibe. The outside was cute but with the delta mosquitoes, I would rather just not eat outside. Secondly, the waitress was very friendly, but also very slow. There were multiple times throughout this experience we wanted to order more drinks, and she was just nowhere to be found. And let me add this. The drinks are extremely overpriced for what they are. They are literally basic drinks anywhere in this entire world, but this restaurant has put extravagant names on basic drinks with outrageous prices. To top it all off within hours of eating here my boyfriend became extremely sick when he only ate a burger. After this experience, we both decided will stay to what we know is good in town, which is the Dutch oven (where the shrimp and grits are good and don't cost and arm and a leg) and the Mexican restaurant! I do not recommend this place at all unless you want to leave disappointed. read more

Mercy! We'd been hearing about how delicious the offerings were, and those comments were absolutely correct. The shrimp grits were amazing, as was the catfish! We'll be back! read more

Very cool place. Although I personally only had a drink and did not eat there, several people in our group did and raved about how good the food was. Very delicious and unique dishes, fast and courteous service. All the staff wore masks, and were extremely accommodating. Our server Jacqueline was wonderful, and as we found out later that night, a very talented musician and performer. Make sure to try the desserts. read more

High end dining in a down home setting. Great food great bar and bartender live music on the weekends and patio seating in nice weather.

Always excellent. I just went wwith a limited fest menu still awesome. A reliable go to restaurant we have eaten at dozens of times and it never fails. read more

Food is amazing. Service is spectacular. Ambiance is perfect & low key. The perfect place.

Country cooking clearly made with love and soul. No seriously it's off the charts. Chef Banks knows his stuff.

Honestly, just perfect. Food is excellent, so laid back.

Very welcome feeling always attended to their customers the food is way worth the price

Excellent food! Try the smash burger!! So dang good!! Great drinks & a really cool atmosphere. Did not disappoint!

A wonderful addition to the growing line up in Clarksdale. A fresh look a different cuisines. Great for lunch or dinner...

This restaurant was our first stop in Clarksdale, MS, and what a great stop it was! The wait staff were extremely pleasant and helpful, very patient, in fact. They gave us excellent ideas for things to do in this Blues Capitol. The creole sauce on the fried green tomatoes was so tasty that we got some of their freshly baked bread to "sop" up the sauce so we could eat all of it. The roasted shrimp on a bed of garlic linguini was delicious. This restaurant strives to be as farm to table as possible. We definitely will return! We highly recommend this pleasant and informal eatery. read more

Lovely gem near the Blues museum. Super super friendly staff great laid back atmosphere and awesome food. The hush puppies are the best I have had. Catfish tasty and light with the perfect amount of cornmeal coating. Shrimp special was just as good. Staff gave us some great suggestions for the area and told some good stories. Don't be in a rush. Sit back and savor!! read more

Great spot...had gumbo and wife had fried green tomato BLT. Food was fresh homemade and on point!! Cold beer and a great vibe. We will eat here anytime we're in Clarksdale!! read more