2 /5 Just Browsing: Took a day trip from Dallas to Marshall to see their beautiful downtown courthouse. Coming into the city we came across the Honey Hole Café and decided to stop since they promote catfish.
As you can see, I ordered the catfish, the shrimp was very tasty as was the batter however, if you just bit half of the shrimp, all the batter would fall off the entire shrimp and it was consistently that way with all. The catfish, while some of it was firm and crisp, a lot of my pieces were soggy so much so that when I bit into it, it was slimy. It was under cooked. The green beans looked like they came from a can; they had zero flavor! And a poor quality green bean. The hush puppies were super greasy and for some reason they fell apart when you just touch them. One of my biggest disappointments was the tartar sauce… throw that away. It really cannot be consumed. It was terrible.. the best thing that they had, IMO, were the free beans. They had little pieces of ground beef. The flavor was delicious. Everything about it was.
One of the guys I was with had the chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes. Those mashed potatoes must’ve come straight from the box. They were overly watered. They had zero seasoning. It was bad on bad no flavor. Minimal salad bar, but I’m okay with that. I liked everything they offered.
Now, for the good part, the service was very quick. The servers were professional and nice, and our drinks were full the entire. The bathrooms were clean. The space was clean.
