Lent begins again and the intrepid Mak family is off in search of Columbus’s best Catholic Fish Fry. Our hope this year is to visit new locations and explore new offerings.
If you are considering visiting any of our locations from last year, we would love to hear of any changes and updates. We discussed over dinner what our favorite was from last year and we universally agreed that it was St. Michaels on High Street in Worthington. In fact, it was the one that was requested for a return visit this year.
Both the Mak-lings are entering that phase of adolescents where they have plans on the weekends that don’t involve their parents. I include this as a ray of hope for my friends with younger children who feel like it is impossible to spend an evening alone with your spouse. Your day will come!
The downfall of this is that we are now glorified chauffeurs doing the pick-up and drop-off all night long. Even with a busy Friday evening our dedication is to you, so our family of four ventured out early to St. Patrick Catholic Church at 280 N. Grant in Downtown Columbus.
Because our children’s busy schedules dictated, we were early birds and pulled into the parking lot at 5pm. The lot was filled with teenagers getting ready for an event, happily joshing and horsing around. We worked our way into what looked like a newer parish hall and found ourselves first in line.
Our dinner was a choice of two types of fish, fried or baked. Each dinner had two pieces though you were not allowed to mix and match. All of us opted for fried, I think in honor of our first of the season. Though, I did try and get one of each. There was also macaroni and cheese, coleslaw and two types of potatoes, baked and French fries. Dessert was homemade brownies and cupcakes. Drinks were sodas, water, and fruity punch as part of the dinner price or wine and beer for a $2.50 donation. Adult dinners were $9, kids 12 and under were $4 and there was a family deal for $30.
Probably because we were the first ones there and this was the first Fish Fry of the season, they were a bit disorganized but they quickly recovered and were able to sort out what color our ticket was supposed and what their portion control was we were quickly served with a smile.
Along with our fish each of us had the mac and cheese. Thom and the kids had coleslaw and fries and I tried the baked potato. The food was basic but generally tasty. The fish was hot and crispy, but F decided felt that it was “uniformed in shape and that kind of creeps me out.” The baked potato was good but they had only butter and oddly, cream cheese but not sour cream. The French fries were proclaimed good but needed salt. Thom and the kids thought the mac and cheese was good and it was better than average but I thought it was only just above average. I will admit to being pretty picky about my mac and cheese. We all thought the brownies were great and Z claimed a coveted corner piece. F thought his cupcake was good.
If our visit is an example of what to expect in the future I would suggest this for families with small kids you want to feed early since it was easy to get in and out and the portions were filling. The people were friendly and by the time we left to drop the kids off for their evenings of fun the room was filling up with families with small children.
Again, if you go to a fish fry, let us know what you think. We need contributors, so feel free to chime in!
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