Captain D's — Restaurant in Champaign

Ok i give 5 star to staffs customer service so to be fair i ate here twice before this review so yes the tea is fresh brewed so give it a 5 star so i ordered the sampler with fish shrimp crab cakes hush puppies fries and macaroni and a cub of gumbo cost about 21.00 maybe little higher so let's start with the sampler the crab cakes were burnt very little carb meat and other ingredients mainly breading tasted like the hush puppy so horrible fish fish itself very good breading salty greasy to much so i pulled off the breading shrimp had to go back for cocktail sauce which i wished i hadn't bothered it prepackaged when i open them they looked old and dried up so i passed just ate the shrimp they were hot and good hush puppies good as well fries were old and salty macaroni had the most flavor for instant they were hot as well so overall maybe two star meal let's go to the gumbo suppose to have shrimp okra chicken sausage rice I'm going out on a limb and say this is dehydrated mix put in hot water shrimp were tiny so couldn't really detect flavor had no chicken couple small peices of sausage as well as okra plenty of rice so for me was lacking ingredients non flavorful alot of broth and rice so on both time pretty much same outcome so for me sadly disappointed will...

My wife and I decided to get dinner here and give them a shot. I unfortunately was not satisfied with the food. The catfish fillets were very tiny. They weren't much larger than fries. The taste reminded me of fish caught from a dirty polluted muddy swamp.

The fish was cooked perfectly and hot, but it lacked all seasonings.

The hush puppies had no seasoning at all. The texture reminded me of flour instead of corn meal to form them. The were big chunks of onion in each hush puppy that was pretty off putting and felt more like an onion ring ball.

The fried okra was cooked great but also lacked any and all seasoning.

The green beans had bits of bacon in them and were sadly the only thing that had seasoning.

The funnel cake sticks were like pretzels with powdered sugar on them.

No plans to return here. I will just go two buildings down to long John...

Getting there, the drive through line was around the building and into the street. Even with this rush of customers our foods was made perfectly as the recipe would dictate. The oil was fresh, There wasn't any crossed flavors from cooking all day. (First. NO, I DO NOT WORK THERE) EVERYTHING was fried or blackened to the precise moment then removed. Everything was FRESH. The menu has great selections. It's NOT JUST A FRIED FISH JOINT. The flavors were clean and distinctive. Everything tasted uniquely like its own. No two things taste alike. My wife is a chef FYI. Are there better places in the industry? I'm sure there is but, this place made its mark here. Everyone is going to love the menu. My wife and I traveled about an hour to get there. Worth the drive. Your experience may differ but the team we had that day was on point. See...