BEACH ROAD

[jaxlongtimer]

^ Thanks, Acme.  If I go back, it won't be for the food but the ambiance of the dining room unless you tell me that has changed too.

I think, in its prime, the food was made from scratch, likely some old Southern-style recipes.  Not like today where so much is processed or made from frozen or down-graded ingredients. 

I know you could see into the smallish kitchen and it was crammed with personnel that were busy as could be.  Probably couldn't get people today to work under such conditions.  And, the waitresses really hustled.  Wasn't easy as the tables were packed pretty tightly and when people pulled out the chairs to sit you could barely squeeze by .  It's also why people had to wait outside... no room inside... but the marketing effect was genius... who wouldn't want to check out a restaurant that had a line out the door every time you went by it.

[thelakelander]

I haven't eaten any of the traditional menu items from Beach Road in 10-15 years now. I've ordered seafood items twice since the reopening, the last being this past Sunday. Will be sad to see the space gone for another suburban stick frame apartment complex though. At this point, the space is more symbolic than the menu.

[Captain Zissou]

Beach Road sold a couple of years ago so that restaurant of your memory has been gone.  What's there now is a totally different seafood based menu.

Beach Road Fish House still carries a limited fried chicken menu, but some of the sides have changed.  The chicken is not as inexpensive as it was, but it is priced much cheaper than the fish dishes on the menu.  I got a fried chicken meal with two sides and a biscuit not long ago (within the past year).