Hodak's Restaurant   

Without any doubt one of if not the best all around place in St. Louis and the very best Chicken one would ever find. I come from the deep south and this is 100 times better than mother ever made. Lots of food and a very reasonable price.

I enjoyed Hodak's in April 'o7 when I took Me 84 year old Ma there because Ma told me that it was the best restaurant fried chicken liked it and Me Ma wanted some great fried chicken. It weren't crowded at tall and the service was retted dup real fast. The chicken was simiply okay for a light corn meal coating. The chickens were young and served hot as were the fries. Served hot I mean, I don't know how old they were. The lightly vinegared slaw was a nice side too as in also.. The price was great too, by great I mean reasonably cheep Cheep like chicken peep. The atmosphere was... Well >Ahem > smokey as patrons wua a smoking cigarettes inside the restaurant as if they wuz at home in their trailer wearin old man "T" shirts and sippin on a Gresidick. I guess I am Khalifarnia spoilt now. I seen Hoosier wannabe's some a sittin at the tables wearing hats on their heads buy it wuz okay cuz they wus Cardinal Hats. Go Cards! Me Ma enjoied the dining experience and that made it mostly worth it, especially since it was just around the carner from my old boy hood home at Mississippi and Allen. After, [which] we drove around the block and took a picher of the stoop of my old home. Now a freeway, I think I fardy four almost cuts through the back yard but still almost but really cuts through LaFayette Park where me Grandpa would take me to feed the ducks and see the sun dial like at the Jewel Box. What wuz great wuz Me Ma did dent have to axe me in her best St. Looiszian... "Jeet Jet?" Idhadda say, "Yeah ma, I awreddeyet!" I'd go back if'n me Ma wanted to. What I really wanted was a good old fashioned Brain Samich like me Pa and I would have at the local bar at Loughboro and Morganford.