Diners share their favorite spots for crispy seafood and fresh rolls.
Fried fish and bread is a delicious seafood meal, simple yet packed with wonderful flavor. Whether it’s catfish or cod, fish and chips or a seafood basket, a plate with hot fresh rolls and garlic bread rounds off the meal and makes it something truly satisfying. Diners notice when the bread is good—in some spots, the bread is so good guests have a hard time finishing their meals. Here are five chains with the best fried fish and bread, according to diners.
Texas Roadhouse
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Texas Roadhouse has a fan-favorite fried catfish plate diners can enjoy with the chain’s famous warm rolls. “Big favorite is always the rolls and honey butter. Always worth waiting for food, and tearing into those hot rolls,” one fan said.
Lambert’s Cafe
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Lambert’s Cafe is famous for being the “home of the thrown rolls”, where servers toss freshly-baked yeast rolls to customers to enjoy with dishes such as the fried catfish. “Of course the pass around were very tasty and plentiful, and so were the soft, hot, big-as-baseball rolls,” one diner said. “I ordered the fried catfish, green beans and baked potato.”
Logan’s Roadhouse
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Diners at Logan’s Roadhouse can enjoy fried catfish paired with their signature freshly baked yeast rolls. ” had the fried catfish which came with a side and the onions,” one fan said. “Oh did I mention the complimentary basket of yeast rolls and butter? Took some of those home too.”
Culver’s
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Culver’s has delicious Pretzel Bites to pair with the North Atlantic Cod dinner. “The fish is flaky. It’s light. The coating is fantastic,” one fan said.
BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse
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BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse diners can enjoy the delicious Garlic Shrimp with Parmesan Toast Appetizer with the BJ’s Brewhouse Blonde® Fish ‘N’ Chips plate. “The fish and chips I ordered were cooked to perfection. It was a real change of pace, and the waitress was friendly and professional,” one diner said.
