Written by: Julie 8/20/2009 2:57 PM
Last weekend we had dinner in Counce, Tennessee at a catfish restaurant along highway 57. I believe the name of the restaurant was The Catfish Pond but there was no name on the building and the sign out front was in pretty bad shape. The building was quite interesting. It is an older building that used to be a garage of some sort. The original garage door was still on it and you could see out between cracks that didn't get caulked. The dining room is heated in the winter by a really old wood stove and cooled by window unit airconditioners. The table cloths were unhemmed pieces of denim fabric. But none of that mattered because they serve the most divine smoked catfish in the world. This restaurant is hugely successful despite the crazy building and people come from all over the place to eat there. This could definitely be classified as a "hole in the wall" restaurant. I think I'll let Guy Fieri of the FoodNetwork know about this restaurant. He travels around the country visiting interesting restaurants and he would love The Catfish Pond as much for their ambiance as for their catfish. The restaurant: The smoked catfish (sorry for the shadow but I quickly snapped a picture and did not realize until later that a huge shadow covered part of it): In case you are still able to find this restaurant despite my obscure directions, make sure you bring cash. They don't accept credit cards!
Last weekend we had dinner in Counce, Tennessee at a catfish restaurant along highway 57. I believe the name of the restaurant was The Catfish Pond but there was no name on the building and the sign out front was in pretty bad shape.
The building was quite interesting. It is an older building that used to be a garage of some sort. The original garage door was still on it and you could see out between cracks that didn't get caulked. The dining room is heated in the winter by a really old wood stove and cooled by window unit airconditioners. The table cloths were unhemmed pieces of denim fabric.
But none of that mattered because they serve the most divine smoked catfish in the world. This restaurant is hugely successful despite the crazy building and people come from all over the place to eat there. This could definitely be classified as a "hole in the wall" restaurant. I think I'll let Guy Fieri of the FoodNetwork know about this restaurant. He travels around the country visiting interesting restaurants and he would love The Catfish Pond as much for their ambiance as for their catfish.
The restaurant:
The smoked catfish (sorry for the shadow but I quickly snapped a picture and did not realize until later that a huge shadow covered part of it):
In case you are still able to find this restaurant despite my obscure directions, make sure you bring cash. They don't accept credit cards!
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