Fiddlers Fish House & Family Restaurant

    

     Here we are on the road again;  Winter 2017 and our first stop is SE Missouri.  This restaurant is located in Dexter.  We have eaten here several times while visiting Barb's family.  If there ever was a Webster's Dictionary For Dining, Fiddlers Fish House sets the standard for Family Style Southern Cooking. They feature an incredible buffet for lunch and dinner as well as 'ala carte' ordering if preferred.  We have always enjoyed their incredible buffet when we dine there, but I hear their prime rib and steaks are wonderful.

     The buffet is well stocked and features either thick, thin fillet, or whole catfish, shrimp, frog legs, clam strips, chicken (fried, BBQ, and gizzards), mac n cheese, meatloaf, roast beef, pork chops, and other daily items.  The sides include hushpuppies, corn on the cob, mashed taters and gravy, sweet taters, beans, green beans, kernel corn, okra, black eye peas, ham & greens, corn bread, biscuits, and many others that vary day to day.  The salad bar is excellent while the dessert bar has, among other items, the best darned peach cobbler you will ever taste.  Price?  Depending on time of day $7.99 to $10.49

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      Of course what restaurant would be complete without their 'Food Challenge'.  Fiddlers features the Man vs. Fish Challenge.  20 Catfish fillets, a pound of fries, a pound of baked beans, a pound of hush puppies and a pound of coleslaw, as well as a gallon of water make up this challenge.  Eat it all and it's free.  It is featured on Missouri's Top Ten Restaurant Challenges.   www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/eating-challenges-mo/

      Ok, down to our visit.  Barb had already committed to work at her sister's house so I took advantage of the lunch buffet.  Behave myself I DID NOT.

Plate #1:  Catfish, frog legs, ff, and coleslaw

Plate #2:  More catfish, chicken, fried green beans n okra, and taters

Yeah baby, warm peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream tops it off

      The food is as good as ever and the hostesses keep your ice tea glass full all the time.  My tab for lunch buffet.......$8.56.  Of course there are literally thousands of Catfish Restaurants throughout the south as well as BBQ, but Fiddlers deserves several BIG THUMBS UP.  I have enjoyed catfish pretty much throughout the country and this is among the best I have ever tasted.  The salad bar and dessert only add to the meal.  DO FINISH WITH THE PEACH COBBLER.  There is NOTHING lacking about a meal enjoyed here.  The food is excellent and as always southern hospitality dictates the service 7 days a week. 

"All great change in America begins at the dinner table"

Ronald Reagan

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