![]() Last year, the influential chef Darius Williams-who in 2017 helped energize Westview’s dining scene with Greens and Gravy-opened Soul Crab in College Park, specializing in seafood by the pound. That also earns it a spot in the growing ranks of Atlanta restaurants serving higher-end Southern seafood. In addition to its inexpensive fried offerings, Trederick’s offers more decadent options such as crab clusters and lobster tails. The catfish and whiting fillets in a light coating of cornmeal batter are especially splendid, and don’t forget the baskets of huge, sweet shrimp, the crinkly fries, the thick homestyle chips, and the sweet coleslaw. Opened in March by the owners of the now-closed Blue Ivory club next door, it even has a small patio and keeps later hours on the weekend. The selection of fish is more limited at Trederick’s on Whitehall Street just south of downtown, but the place is a real restaurant. Eat your fish burning-hot at a long folding table overlooking a broken Pac-Man machine or in your car with the windows open. The whiting fish sandwich, priced as low as $3.49, trumps anything you could ever purchase at a fast-food restaurant. ![]() The hot sauce waits for you at the counter. Better yet, have them fried on the spot while you sit on one of the benches, waiting for your order to be called.Ī scant $7 will buy you three pieces of deftly fried flounder, two thin slices of wheat bread, some fries, and a few jalapeño hushpuppies. Merkerson’s offers fresh porgys, sheepheads, snappers, mullets, and catfish whole at the counter, which you can cook yourself. ![]() You can locate some of the best by following a sign advertising one at a local church-but if that doesn’t pan out, you’ll find a similarly iconic Atlanta experience at the somewhat decrepit-looking, old-fashioned Merkerson’s Fish Market, a longtime fixture on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard near West End. Few things feel more Southern to me than a fish fry.
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