Many restaurants offer excellent Friday seafood specials, rooted in the tradition of Catholic diners abstaining from meat on Fridays. These fish fries are loved by customers for big portions, big flavor, and big value. Fried fish such as catfish, pollock, cod, and haddock draw diners back week after week for these seafood feasts. If you’re craving delicious fish, french fries, hush puppies, and more, the following spots always get it right. Here are five restaurant chains with the best Friday seafood specials, according to diners.
Metro Diner
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Metro Diner’s Fish Fry Fridays are popular with fans who love the fried fish platters and fried fish sandwiches. “Good food and friendly service. Fried fish and chips are delicious,” one happy diner said.
Cracker Barrel
Cracker Barrel
Cracker Barrel’s Friday Fish Fry is a weekly special featuring a generous meal of four hand-battered and fried cod fillets served with tartar sauce, lemon, a choice of two country sides, plus buttermilk biscuits or corn muffins. “I go to Cracker Barrel especially for the fish. There are large portions and you don’t go home hungry,” one fan said.
Golden Corral
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Golden Corral diners can indulge in the chain’s Friday Fish Fry, featuring unlimited battered cod, fried fish, or bone-in catfish from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. “I had fried chicken and fried fish with hot yeast rolls. Both were hot & crispy,” one fan said. “My 4th time there & it is just as good every time.”
North and South Seafood & Smokehouse
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North and South Seafood & Smokehouse rounds out the list as a fan-favorite destination for Friday seafood, praised by diners for its generous portions and flavorful fried fish offerings that keep customers coming back week after week.
