We absolutely love this place. The catfish both fried and Cajun grilled are hits with our family. Hush puppies without a doubt are great. Fried okra, fried corn on the cob delicious! Green beans are just like eating my memaws. To top it off the pies are greatness, we buy them in whole. White fudge pecan can't be beat! I don't understand the other reviews, but this is one of the best little "hole in the wall" ever found. We are regulars at their down home family place.
Review Source:This place is great -- we've been stopping here and coming here for years and years when coming up to our boat a Cedar Mills and now our lake house near Cedar Mills! Â No one mentioned the chicken -- my wife and kids love the fried chicken and the fries are great also. They now have an all you can eat fired and boiled shrimp feast on Saturdays that is excellent! We don know what we would do without this place.
Review Source:The food is adequate if you are super hungry. The hush puppies are gross. The cheeseburgers lack the taste of "meat" which to me is the main ingredient of a burger! The salad was old not fresh at all and the ranch was terrible. The fries were good but not the best. The catfish is the same basic fish trucked in by Ben E Keith except I don't like the batter so much. The staff is friendly, the place is clean but this place is my last resort guaranteed! I'll probably eat a hot pocket before I spend $30.00 at this place for my wife and I.
Review Source:You know you're in Texas when a restaurant has to post a sign on its pie display table that the pies "aren't an all you eat buffet - please order from a server."
Catfish Haven is known for their catfish (duh) and their pie. Â While I'm not a huge catfish fan I must say their cornmeal dredged version is pretty good. Â They really excel at all manner of fried food. Â My family polished off an ungodly amount of it, including: chicken (strangely they offer it two ways, deep fried and pan fried, the latter being far superior), pickles (oh so good), Texas toothpicks, okra, corn (yes, fried corn on the cob), steak, potatoes, pork loin, gizzards, liver...they would probably fry your iced tea if they could.
I had "Memaw's Famous Fried Chicken" - Â half of a pan fried chicken with mashed potatoes and pickled beets as my sides. Â Texas toast, which is one of my very favorite guilty pleasures, comes with all entrees. Â At $8.95 it's quite a steal, definitely enough for two people. Â The chicken was right up there with some of the best I've had, anywhere. Â My only complaint was the cream gravy was a bit thick and bland. Â I much prefer a brown, giblet-y gravy.
Most of the party ordered up the catfish. Â There's an all you can eat option for $9.95 but the menu cautions "all you can eat means per person, so please don't be polite and share it, God is watching." Â All the sides were great, I ate a lot of SSBB's green tomato relish and super long cooked green beans with hunks of ham. Â
It would've been nice to wash down this feast with a Lone Star or Shiner Bock, unfortunately the Haven is in a dry county. Â Instead we washed all the salt and grease down with iced tea, sweet or plain, your choice.
Their pie has received press in everything from the late, dearly missed Gourmet mag to NPR. Â I gotta say, though, mine was pretty awful. Â I had decided before leaving Oregon that for this four day weekend all bets were off as far as healthy eating went. Â That being said I ate chocolate meringue or chocolate cream pie EVERY day. Â Catfish Haven's was the worst by far. Â The "cream" on the pie wasn't cream at all, rather it was Cool Whip. Â And Cool Whip that had taken on a stale refrigerator taste at that. Â The crust was good, but woman cannot live on crust alone. Â
The owner is a woman of a certain age who has the most fabulous beehive you've ever seen. Â You just know she's rocked that style since the '50s. Â I mean, that's before the Bumpit was invented! Â
All in all, it's a great place to stop and pig out if you're in the Lake Texoma area.
Decor  4 stars
Food  3 and a half stars
Service 5 stars
I may be biased on this place because I was starving when we went and didn't have any expectations. This place was such a wonderful surprise.  It is literally surrounded by cow fields, out in the middle of nowhere. We went on a Saturday, late afternoon.  There were several folks there even though there is no telling where they came from.  The place is really cute, very nicely decorated. We both ordered catfish fillets, fried.  What we got were actually catfish strips.  My husband could tell that they had been frozen because they weren't as flaky as they would have been if they had never been frozen but they were cooked perfectly.  They were really good and the service was exceptional.  The green beans side dish was really good but the broccoli-cheese-rice side dish needed a little more seasoning.  There is a pie bar in the middle of  the room as soon as you walk in.  There are so many great looking flavors but we didn't get to try one on our trip because the entree was huge and we didn't save room.  Next time, I am ordering the pie first.  I've already scoped it out.  Speedy's.  It is peanut butter with chocolate chip, cream cheese and pecans.  yum.
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