Best All-You-Can-Eat


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 The Original Pancake House, various locations

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 Tom Jenkins B-B-Q, Fort Lauderdale

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 Toa Toa, Sunrise

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 Il Mulino, Fort Lauderdale
 
Catfish Dewey's
4003 N. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954/566-5333, www.catfishdeweys.com

 Catfish Dewey's serves about 150,000 pounds of farm-raised Mississippi catfish every year, and it's no wonder, considering how tasty it is and how it's served as a $12.95 all-you-can-eat special seven nights a week. The whiskered bottom feeder is fried, either whole or filleted, and comes with a potato, fried hush puppies and a choice of salad or homemade coleslaw. (Take the slaw.) Dewey's extends the feast on other nights as well, offering all-you-can-eat fried shrimp Mondays and Tuesdays, fried scallops Fridays and fried clam strips or oysters Saturdays. As tempting as it is to eat catfish or clams until you burst, don't do it to the exclusion of the fried pickles, frog's legs, conch fritters or beer-battered onion rings. The 250-seat restaurant doesn't have windows, but there's plenty to look at, like the massive seahorse chandelier and the stuffed hammerhead shark with beads around its neck.