The Catfish Place

Just had the worst experience here. We placed our order and then our server disappeared and we had to ask other servers for more drink. After waiting 45 minutes our food was brought out and missing items. Customers should be notified if the kitchen is running slow. Management did not even seem to care. Decided to leave our dinner sitting on the counter. We are new to the area and had heard great things about this place from our family. Definitely will not be going back.

Great place to eat! It was a 40 min drive from our hotel but definitely worth it! Our waitress was awesome. We told her we were debating on getting some catfish and she immediately said «hold on, let me go get some for you to try.» It was very good but it wasn’t the real reason we drove 40 mins! It was for the gator and turtle meat! Yum yum yum. We 5 star enjoyed our meal. Both costed roughly $ 20 each but we were fine with it since we couldn’t find anything else locally other than the chain restaurants.

Been going to the Catfish Place for at least 20 years. The menu had remained amazingly consistent, and quality has never dropped. I swear by the gator tale. It is a must if you visit Orlando. Yes, redneck territory, but not redneck treatment.

For down home REAL GOOD food, this is the place. Not fancy, very family style, and a place to always get a smile.
You have to try the HOMEMADE blue cheese and ranch dressing. Two dressings, not mixed, but I wonder…
The catfish is great, chicken fried steak is to die for. Generous portions, well made and always eager to fill up the sweet tea.
If in St. Cloud and looking for a casual dining place, give this place a try, you won’t be disappointed.

This place has been open for 42 years, and they have a crowd everyday! Seriously worth getting off the turnpike if you like southern fried food. And they have the gold standard of hush puppy in my opinion. Also their homemade hash browns are awesome! My friend tried Gator for the first time, she’s from Michigan, and she LOVED it! The «Tiger sauce» they make for it is yummy as well. This place is especially good for lunch, but go hungry, you will be full!

Man o man don’t I love myself fried food. I mean who doesn’t? I came with my brother during lunch and it wasn’t so packed. I’ve been here before and had to wait about 15 – 30 minutes, but that was during dinner hours. Whether you have to wait or not, the place is worth it! You are served with big portions and great service. There is a section for private parties if need be. If you love southern comfort food you will not be disappointed.

I got to try turtle and gator! The owners and locals are probably going, ‘woo hoo, how amazing’ (of course that is said dripping with sarcasm) but I find it a great adventure trying things you’ve never tried before. And for the record, they were both good though the gator was better. Also for the record, although good they didn’t much taste like anything unique. Gator was kind of like chicken and turtle was like tough beef bits.
Other things I got to try were fried green tomatoes (yum), catfish (huge portions!), crab, shrimp, etc. The food here was pretty good and I enjoyed the local atmosphere. Right up my alley.
Give this place a try. It’ll be fun.

We had lunch there more than once, ok southern cooking.

Catfish, turtle, frog legs, shrimp, gator, and hushpuppies at their finest! No wonder they’ve been in business 42 years. They have Southern food dialed in.
It’s just too bad we live in Idaho or we’d eat here more often.

Overpriced, underwhelming fried food.

3 words:
AA — MAY — ZING!!!
The food was spectacular and I couldn’t get enough of it. First start off with fried frog legs, they’re so delicious. Then the nice ice cold beer. Last get a great traditional entrée with some amazing home made sauces, blue cheese was my favorite.
The food variety here was unbelievable, there was so much to choose from! Fried chicken, fried clams, fried scallops, fried fish, fried gator and turtle. Everything here was so good, and the service was excellent. Ask them for recommendations because they know all the good stuff. The place had a mini gift shop that was just so cute. I also loved all the fried lobster!
Overall my experience was 5 stars! Great place for company parties, grad parties, family get togethers, or even a nice meal after Sunday’s mass.

Good selection of seafood, but the cook doesn’t use much seasoning which means the fried food doesn’t have much taste.

The food and service were very good. For a busy Saturday night we got out relatively quickly. The gator, turtle and catfish were all very tasty. I thought the frog legs were excellent. Best hush puppies I’ve ever had. Not as dry as usual with a hint of sweetness. Will definitely be back.

My family was recently vacationing in Kissimmee, and my mom thought that we should really try gator while we were in Florida, so after Unilocaling it, we decided on the Catfish Place for lunch.
I loved the home-​iness of this place! Our waitress was the kind of lady who calls everyone «honey» or «sweetie» and was super nice and helpful! We ended up ordering tons of food! We got the fried seafood platter with Gator, Turtle, and Frog Legs; the 2-​for-​16 deal with the Chicken Livers and the Boneless Catfish. For sides, we tried the Hush Puppies, Cole Slaw, Veggie of the Day (Collard Greens), Corn, Fried Green Tomatoes, Sweet Potato Fries, Baked Sweet Potato, and Mashed Potato. Everything was delicious! Especially with their Tiger Sauce (a wasabi and mustard based dipping sauce). The batter of the fried stuff was perfect, it got a good coat of batter, but was still light enough that you were still able to taste the essence of what you were eating. Although, I did start to feel bad eating the turtle after a while. The gator was almost like a fishy chicken, but really good! The catfish was wonderful — it could have easily been the highlight of the meal if we didn’t have such exotic things to try. We finished our meal with their Key Lime Pie — hands down the best Key Lime Pie I’ve ever had in my life. We ordered a slice to share (we were all stuffed by the end of the meal), but we ended up ordering another one because it was that good!
Anyways, the food was enough to earn 5 stars — such interesting and delicious dishes — but the lovely service we got really puts this place above and beyond.

Having a late lunch with families and friends. We decide to eat at whole one wall place. I order fried pickles and lobster. Great fried foods but then, I decide to eat Southern fried chicken. I was disappointed on the flavourless and dried chicken.
The service and ambiance was great. Great family restaurant with home feeling.

If all you want is some good fried seafood, this is your place. Fried fish, french fries, hush puppies, fried clam strips, fried shrimp… you name it, they fry it. And although it’ll do a number on your arteries, everything tastes quite good. Service is prompt and friendly.

The fried catfish is ok… but the Fried Snapper… but the Fried Snapper. but the Fried Snapper… smh umm umm good. Just get the fried snapper… That’s all i’m saying…

Hush puppies and seafood gumbo were great!!! Service and food were very good. Definitely would return here!!!

«This Establishment is closed» by Osceola County Health Department 10/10/2014…Eat at your own risk!

Just went after all the positive reviews. I don’t get it! Maybe these reviewers are easy to please or just like fried seafood. You can get fried seafood just about anywhere and once it’s fried it all tastes the same.
I’ve lived in the area the last 2 years so I thought it’s time to try this place.
Our waitress had ZERO personality. A total turn off. Not friendly. Never cracked a smile. Miserable actually.
I guess it’s my fault for ordering steak at a seafood joint. The steak was $ 22 I was hoping it was good. It was HORRIFIC. It was even a bizarre shape. Not normal and it was DEFINITELY NOT a delmonico. It was the cheapest nastiest, thawed out cut of steak I’ve ever had. My husband tasted it and said to send it back. But I hate sending things back because of repercussions. Asked for real butter for my baked potato. She looked at me like I was crazy and said she could get me a margarine spread. I said I already had the margarine blend on my plate, no thanks.
My steak came w/​5 fried shrimp. They were actually good for fried shrimp. But beware mostly everything is fried which to me makes everything taste the same. Over $ 50 for 2 people (no drinks or appetizers or dessert) was about $ 35 too much for this. The quality of that meat is the worst I’ve ever had. It made a Ponderosa steak look like GOLD.