Fried Catfish appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Fried catfish · Nashville
Cornmeal-dredged catfish fillets, deep-fried until the coating shatters. Plated with hush puppies and cole slaw, dipped in tartar or hot sauce.
Catfish is the South's working-river fish. Farms in west Tennessee and the Mississippi Delta supplied Nashville fish fries through the 20th century. The dish became a Friday-night fixture in Black-owned restaurants and meat-and-three counters. Today catfish lives on at Swett's, the Loveless and most meat-and-three menus around Nashville, always with cornmeal coating and never with batter.
Where to eat in Nashville:
- Loveless Cafe
- Arnold's Country Kitchen
- Monell's Dining and Catering