Hungry? A couple of years ago a local institution here decided it was time for a second location. River Smith’s Chicken and Catfish had been serving up good food since 1976, and built a second restaurant on the south side of Lubbock.
Even though I grew up on the Gulf Coast, seafood isn’t usually on the top of my culinary agenda. In fact, I can count on one finger the number of times I craved seafood. So you can imagine my wife’s surprise when I said, on a Friday no less, “Let’s get seafood.” Then I remembered that River Smith’s had opened their new location, so I suggested we check it out.
I’m sure that wherever you live it’s probably the same way, but when a new restaurant opens in Lubbock, you may as well get ready for a wait. But it was after 8:00, and I figured maybe the movie crowd would have left by then.
Wrong. The place was packed. But we were pretty leisurely, and decided to go ahead and brave it. At River Smith’s, you order at the counter, and they give you a numbered buzzer that you place on a rack at your table so the server knows where to bring the order. I should have known there might be a problem when the lady that took the order had run out of buzzers and grabbed one from a different register. Nevertheless, we took our drinks and buzzer and somehow found a seat to wait.
And wait.
And wait some more.
Again, we weren’t in a hurry or even frustrated. But I did catch a server passing by and asked her if she could check on our order.
Impress me #1:
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