Mother's Best Fried Fish is a year-round fish fry

While dozens of parishes host Friday fish fries during Lent, what happens when Easter arrives? Rather than quit your newfound fish addiction cold turkey, err fish, head to Mother’s Best Fried Fish, where battered catfish, tripe, jack salmon and shrimp are served hot all year long. And if you realize your thing-for-fish was really just a thing-for-fried, there’s always the fried okra.

• Owner Freddie Murphy prepares fish for battering, while Mario Singleton readies the only plates at this North City standby: carryout boxes. 

• Carryout is the order of the day (every day) at Mother’s, so take in the people parade from a plastic chair while you wait. 
  

• Mario Singleton prepares an order (Try to ignore his hat.). 

• With all the napkins provided, it’s pretty much guaranteed you’ll sneak into your order on the drive home. 

• Fried shrimp and french fries do a body great.

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Mother’s Best Fried Fish, 2738 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314.533.4433, facebook.com/MothersFishSTL