Ron’s Catfish Buffet
3213 Dan Ave, Jonesboro, AR, 72401
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Address :
3213 Dan Ave
Jonesboro, AR, 72401 - Phone (870) 930-9639
- Website https://www.ronscatfish.com
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Opening Hours
- Tue
Specialities
- Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Noise Level : Very Loud
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : No
Waiter Service : No
Caters : Yes
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Monte G.
Fried Catfish Fried Chicken Chicken Wings Frog Legs All the side And Pumpkin pie ooo my! I want early to beet the friday lunch rush. The restaurant was still filled to the gills! With the money
(4)Jakob F.
Gargantuan sized buffet and everything is always fresh and tasty. Their catfish is good, but if you don't like meat that swims they always have chicken or ham available. It's pretty much all self service, so while its a tad pricy (About $12-$15) you don't have to worry about tipping. It's always crowded there, which is kinda a hassle but that means you know it's good. It can get quite hot and stuffy there when they are busy. Also come as early as possible especially on Friday nights, lest you want to wait in the line that's out the door. Best buffet in town!
(4)Becca R.
Every handicapped spot was taken and none of them had tags or a hanger. The price was outrageous AMD there was no air conditioner. I had to keep wiping sweat and couldn't eat due to being too hot. I'm disabled and had to walk from another parking lot by a field on oxygen. I will never come here again!!!
(1)Rich R.
A catfish buffet, really? Yes, really! I recently brought a number of "foodies" here from very posh metro Chicago; to my surprise they gave Ron's a 100% approval rating! We left an embarrassing stack of empty plates on the table and stumbled into the parking lot fat, shiny and smelling of fish fry. Their motto, "62 feet of all you can eat!". That's a lot of catfish. On the other 31 feet of the bar I found frog legs, shrimp (fried and non), fried chicken, salad (iceberg lettuce of course), "Home Style Vegetables" and a dessert bar. The best part of Ron's is definitely watching the other diners. There are some serious eaters in here, professional grade. Watch and learn kids. Nice place for large groups and families to talk loudly and significantly reduce the world's catfish population. All kidding aside, this was a good meal in a very casual setting. Service was friendly and surroundings were clean. This place also has a giant parking lot, you could land a blimp here if needed. Funniest part of our visit, the coin operated blood pressure monitor at the exit, I am not kidding! Approve!
(4)Eric N.
Awesome place well thought of as for fish a variety of cuts and ways it seemed prepared and always bring in fresh to keep bar stocked up. It is a catfish Buffett and it is top notch floors and tables were cleaned and well maintained. Would go again.
(5)Renita G.
I love this place. The price is great considering all of the food plus drinks and desserts are included in the price. And no tippling required! I come here often and the food is always fresh and delicious. This is our go-to place for feeding teenage boys and making mom happy at the same time
(5)Bryan F.
62 feet of all the crap you can eat. Admittedly, I am not a fan of catfish, or any other fresh water fish, so I was dragged here by the will of the group under protest. They all loved it, I did not. Of course, they are all obese, while I am not. There is a HUGE variety of bland foods, mostly fried and greasy. I found the quality of the food to be on par with most school cafeterias, while the prices were disproportionate with the quality. In the way of disclosure, I am not a culinary snob, I merely dislike "all you can eat" buffets on principle-- there is a reason why 70% of Americans are overweight. It angers me to see so many plates grossly overloaded an so much food wasted...anger is not a good dinner emotion. In fairness, everyone loved the star of the show--catfish--so I can't crap on that. Surely, however, there must be some place that can provide that without the unnecessary excesses of the buffet and the associated circus. ***Update--August 30, 2013*** Under serious protest I once again went with visiting relative who absolutely insisted we go here. Unbelievably, it was even worse--this time, not only was the salad bar horrifically depleted(thousand island or French light was my only option) but NO ONE came to bus our plates or anything. I swear I will NEVER go here again for anybody. I wish I could give negative stars
(1)Joshua H.
I hadn't been to Ron's since before most people had even heard of "the Internet", mostly because I'm not much for restaurant catfish (probably because most places are horrible) and don't like paying for restaurant 'home cooking' (which I usually could have done much better at home with little effort). Lately I've been telling folks that I think the catfish fillets at the Dodge Store are the best catfish I've had in a long, long time and a lot of folks have really been bragging on Ron's in response, so I decided to give it a try. I went on a Tuesday about 4:30-5:00pm. Conclusion I tend to ramble & type far to much, so here's the short version: overall I was really happy with the visit aside from one big disappointment. I will be back, and probably sooner that the 15yrs between my last two visits. Below I express a lot of surprise and shock, but don't take that as, 'I expected Ron's to be bad.' It is really, 'This is totally not what I'm used to around here. This is actually good.' Now the long version... Price Being that it was Tuesday the prices were a little lower. I'd seen plenty of people complain about the price (Indeed, I probably won't be visiting during the $12.99 shifts on nights/weekends.) but getting the special for being a Tuesday afternoon, in combination with the quality, made me feel like I got a good value. Appearance The employees were all friendly & working diligently. It seems like they were all working together to keep the place clean & making sure customers were taken care of rather than each one doing their own thing. Even the young ones didn't seem to have the 'I'm bored, when can I get out of here, where's my check?' attitude that is sadly so prevalent in hospitality today. Refreshing. I especially want to single out one person for praise. The girl that was tending the buffet was ON IT. She was keeping it clean and well maintained and was busy with it but was unobtrusive about it so as not to impede the flow of customers. Buffet Speaking of buffet... I was surprised and impressed. It was super clean, none of the food was getting in adjacent food containers (or if it was it was being dealt with swiftly), and none of the food looked as if it had been there all day, or three. Everything looked like it had been placed there just minutes before, which it very well may have been given the diligence with which it was tended. There was a pleasing range of items, especially the desert bar whose variety and quality was shockingly good. None of the boiled or stewed items - such as beans, black-eyed peas, green beans, etc - was cooked down to a mushy pool of bland glop as frequently happens with mass produced buffet food. All were suitably toothsome with clean, clear flavors. I especially appreciated the salad bar. While I might have liked a few more components available it was a decent selection and best of all the lettuce was outstanding. Nearly everywhere I go the lettuce is 1) soggy & swimming in a pool of water or 2) dry but stinking of preservative and/or the plastic bag it was shipped in, pre-shredded in a factory who-knows-where. Ron's was both dry AND tasted very fresh and clean. I liked that they had both iceberg and leaf lettuce as well. Catfish The vegetables & salad bar by themselves are enough to get me back. However, there was one major source of disappointment for me, the whole reason I'd come: the catfish. I tried a couple fillets (cajun & regular), a steak, and a tail. I tried to get the plumpest ones I could find. The steak was sad, with only two little medallions of good meat about the size of a nickel on each side of the spine and then two strips of leathery belly flaps that I could barely chew clinging to the ribs. The tail appeared clean but was still chocked full of anal fin bones I had to pick out of my teeth. The "fillets" were desiccated chewy strips, just barely bigger than what I would call "nuggets". I don't think I managed to get a single decent mouthful of catfish meat out of the whole lot. The cajun fillets had no spice to them at all other than salt. Lots and lots and lots of salt. I like salt on my fish but that was just way too much; I couldn't taste anything resembling fish for the huge metallic flavor of salt in my mouth. Parting Words Maybe they got a less-than-perfect shipment of fish, maybe the kitchen staff wasn't keeping an eye on the fryer like they should that day, or maybe I just don't know what good fish is supposed to be like. Whatever the case, I found the fish to be an aberration in an otherwise outstanding experience. Even if I am ignorant of the world of catfish (but I don't think I am having grown up eating the fish from the ditches, swamps, and sloughs of southeast Missouri) I think if it had been up to the level of the rest of the spread I definitely would be talking about how great it was rather than how it was a let-down. That's all I got. Happy overall, hoping for better next time.
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