Tia Juanita’s Fish Camp- Athens - Athens (TX)

3 /5 Raised Spirit: This was a good find. Beautiful restaurant. The fried shrimp and fried oysters and pretty standard. No special breading or flavor. The boudin balls are really a good. The 20 ounce Don Julio resposado margarita was excellent. Loved the bread pudding. The sopapilla cheese cake was okay.

2 /5 Mike Tryner: Normally this place is good but tonight was terrible! We sat at the middle of the bar and the server/bartender was very inattentive with our drink glasses empty 15 minutes or more each time. Our food took forever to come out and was barely warm when it did. The seafood gumbo was basically beef broth with a tiny bit of hard crunchy rice and 4 tiny shrimp. The crackers that came with it were crushed in the package to cracker dust.The shrimp and grits came out like soup with little flavor and tough chewy shrimp with soggy wet toasted bread. Both entrees as I said were barely warm. We had to ask the man who occasionally went behind the bar for refills.The server who was supposed to be there had a nasty attitude when we asked for refills stating,"IM DOING 3 JOBS!!!" I WAS intending to get the grilled oysters until I saw the grill was filthy and covered with rust. There were cleaning supplies and dirty cleaning water all over the food prep area and the employee washing the wall behind the grill WHILE cooking food(the grill was pulled slightly from the wall) all the while, these cleaners and dirty water splashing all over the food.

3 /5 Patrick Smiley: We went to the Tia Juanita‘s in Athens. There’s one in Waco while there was nothing wrong with the food. It was not as flavorful as I would’ve expected from a Mexican Cajun place. The one in Waco had a hour wait on a Saturday after lunch I would not wait more than 15 minutes to eat food here. My son said the best thing about the food was the raw oysters. Me and my wife and my son all had their specialties and they’re just wasn’t anything special. The shrimp and grits were nothing like the ones that I had in New Orleans. My wife’s blackened tilapia was nothing special and my son‘s blackened Ahi tuna, he said, wasn’t that great I will have to say the gator bite was really good. The drink they do have live music that wasn’t obnoxiously loud even though we were set right in front of a speaker. I would definitely go back to try their poor boys and fried baskets but definitely I wouldn’t wait very long to be seated. The presentation on the food was really good

5 /5 Gregory Brown II: While traveling to Athens on business, asked about a god place to eat lunch. This was a great recommendation. Food was great and unique, real alligator bites. Po boys was great, bread made it even better, shrimp nachos was huge and had a really good cheese sauce. We are a hour and a half away but we will drive back to eat there again!!!