Melody Bradley, her daughter Amy Watson and granddaughter Rhianna Watson determined to open a restaurant in 2018. They settled on a barbeque and market as a result of fish eating places weren’t that frequent within the Excessive Desert.
Meals service expertise
Amy Watson had labored for greater than 20 years within the meals trade and developed a love of fish and seafood. Whereas serving within the army and stationed primarily within the South, she “knew fish nicely” and wished to open a restaurant that served conventional Southern delicacies.
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She additionally knew good meals made good pals and a pleasant restaurant would put life again into the group. Get Hooked Fish Fry and Market would turn into a spot to come back collectively and meet new pals whereas having fun with scrumptious meals.
At present at Get Hooked, should you sit down and make a pal, introduce them on the counter and they’ll obtain a free drink. It’s that straightforward.
Statements and values
With a Mission Assertion, a Imaginative and prescient and Core Values — the latter based mostly on their identify (“Great meals, Excellent service, Team work, Highest requirements, Opportunity, Organically pushed, Okindness, ECO pleasant, and Delicious”) — Get Hooked was able to go.
Timing is every little thing
Leasing a former actual property workplace in July 2018 in Rancherias Plaza — what Watson calls “previous city Apple Valley” — meant main reworking. Simply because the restaurant opened in December 2020, the pandemic hit, closing companies earlier than Get Hooked had the prospect to “forged its first line.”
Menu choices instantly
Name-ahead orders had been the reply, and the menu developed to incorporate sandwiches, which stay in style at the moment.
Sizzling selections, served on white or wheat artisan bread, function tasty concoctions like The Huge Blue, a strong white Albacore tuna soften with tomato and your alternative of cheese; The Kraken, a three-cheese grilled with tomato; the Leviathan, grilled ham and cheese with tomato; and the Captain James Sparrow, pastrami with pickles and mustard on a six-inch roll. Costs vary from $9.99 to $12.99.
Chilly sandwiches — mounted “Get Hooked” fashion with a six-inch roll, mustard, mayo, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles with seasonings and vinegar and oil — embrace The Gully, ham and cheese; The Poseidon, with ham, salami and cheese; The Siren, turkey and cheese with salami $2 further; and The Knucklehead, a strong white Albacore tuna sandwich. These are all $10.99
The complete deli menu contains each day “Po’ Boy” sandwiches.
Verify all of the boards
The “large board” menu lists choices accessible at Get Hooked. Their greatest vendor is British-style fish & chips — wild Alaskan cod fried in a secret recipe moist batter. Their Southern fried fish is roofed in a cornmeal-flour coating.
Different selections embrace crab desserts (three for $14.99), 4 items of Tilapia, snapper, combined fish, catfish or sole, with costs starting from $11.99 to $14.99.
Two-piece fish and shrimp combo meals, six-piece jumbo shrimp or seven-piece shrimp Po Boy alternatives can be found too. All meals are served with fries and hush puppies.
Household meal packages are provided, too.
Two varieties of sides can be found, too. The primary presents fries, coleslaw, fried okra, shrimp or fish aspect orders and hush puppies. Specialty sides that change every single day embrace fried inexperienced tomatoes, onion rings, black-eyed peas, soiled rice, collard greens, jambalaya and extra.
Youngsters’ menu objects are objects like nuggets, cod, grilled cheese and shrimp meals starting from $6.99 to $8.99. Seniors and the army obtain 10% off their meals.
The whole lot on the menu is made contemporary. There are occasional night specials, and the lunch specials are the identical every single day. Additionally, ask about their Loyalty program.
Don’t overlook dessert
All selfmade desserts at Get Hooked are $4.75 and embrace banana pudding, peach cobbler, cheesecake and lemon meringue pie. There are each day desserts, too.
Another factor …
Get Hooked can cater massive events. They’ll fry fish you caught your self. All Watson asks is $1 to fry and a bit for herself. Additionally they promote any fish in inventory by the pound.
Eat-in, take out, supply accessible
Get Hooked Fish Fry and Market serves dine-in clients or supplies take-out or call-ahead meals. Remember to “Like” their Fb web page and examine their TikTok and Instagram pages, too, @gethookedfishfry.
Supply is now accessible via eAT-S in Apple Valley. Their web site is www.eat-s.com, and examine their Fb web page.
While you go
Get Hooked Fish Fry and Market, 20200 Freeway 18, Unit A, Apple Valley, CA 92307, 760-946-9006. Open Tuesday via Saturday 11 a.m. to eight p.m., Sunday Midday to 7 p.m. Closed Monday.
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