More than 70 years later, fried chicken, seafood and burgers are still among the most popular dishes at the restaurant on the corner of Beatties Ford Road and Oaklawn Avenue.
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Philip Freeman,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Apr. 2025
This was a big success until the day my mother looked out the window, saw me, and dropped an entire plate of fried shrimp on a paying customer.
One kid ate the broiled fruit and loved it; the other would have sooner perished.
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Emily Weinstein,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
But if your crowd would call that having a side dish for supper, the rice won’t mind sharing the bill with a roast chicken, a lamb chop, sautéed mushrooms or a piece of broiled fish.
Customers have long enjoyed its craft beers and taco platters filled with Mary’s Chicken al pastor, grilled octopus or sauteed portobello mushrooms at three sister locations in the East Bay.
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Benjy Egel,
Sacramento Bee,
9 Jan. 2025
The sauteed octopus is cooked to tender plumpness and comes with chorizo chips and a delectable chili sauce.
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