Hook Fish & Chicken

My boyfriend and I always loved Hooks. But recently after ordering the 10piece wing meal my boyfriend fell ill. (I did not eat and am perfectly fine) I have never seen him that sick before. He cannot keep nothing down. Being in the food industry myself I would look into your storing temps to ensure all poultry and fish are stored at proper temperatures and make sure you are not handing out bad product. This is the only thing he ate that day and now is sick as a dog. As much as we loved hookfish we will not return due to the possibility of getting sick again.

Ordered 30 wings along with fries and catfish nuggets, all I can say is Bravo. No issues taking the order over the phone with cc. I will be visiting more going forward.

The food is always hot and delicious. The delivery is quick. I’m never disappointed. I usually get the wings with extra seasoning and hush puppies. Huge portions. They don’t speak English too well but who cares. Every person there has been nothing but helpful and polite.

The best food joint in mt oliver. Thats not saying much, but i really enjoyed the chicken tenders, fries, and cole slaw

I had he fish sandwich and fries with coleslaw. The french fries were the best. Everything else wasn’t!

They delivered my food on time. Everything was still hot. The delivery man did not speak any English though so I had to figure out the total cost myself. Everything looks really good. The crab cakes could have been better, there’s a lot of breading on them. The wings could’ve been seasoned a little more. The fries are perfect. I may give this place a 2^nd try & order something else.

2 words… CRACK CHICKEN!!! Ok so let start with obvious, this is not a sit down and enjoy your meal kind of place. Its a hole in the wall chicken and fish place, and in that regard its a very good one. As for what you should get from this place… fish and chicken. Nothing else just stick to the fish and chicken.
To the first reviewer, gizzards??? Well at least you learned your lesson lol. As for everyone else, if your going to visit this place please remember its a fish and chicken spot. Meaning fish sandwiches and wings are what they do best.

Hook Fish & Chicken is a local chain of soul food restaurants that has made its way into the South Hills of Pittsburgh within the past year. The majority of these fried food purveyors can be found in the North Side or East of the city. This location was once a KFC many years ago and offers much of the same grub is larger predecessor did. While running errands with my mother and sister, we chanced upon it and decided to take a plunge… into the world of hot fat delight.
Watching the french fries come out of a frozen bag as we awaited our takeout order was disappointing, but not a deal-​buster, yet anyway.
I’m not sure about the other HF&C franchises, but this one only offers poultry mostly in «nugget» and «tender» wing form instead of the standard leg/​thigh/​breast configurations, which is probably why I chose something I had no business ordering: Chicken Gizzards.
Never before do I recall ever seeing them on an area menu before, so it came as a shock to me, and being adventurous, I just had to dig in.
Ehhh, they were like eating pieces of tire dredged in Quikrete. My jaws were sore, and my mouth had sores in it for days due to the hardened, cornmeal breading. Someone in a review of another HF&C eatery wrote of a «magical unicorn pixie dust seasoning» that supposedly «made» all of their menu items sing. All it did was make my piehole sting due to the aforementioned lesions (swishing with salt water helped). The gizzards alone were an ordeal.
As its name states, HF&C one-​ups KFC by also offering seafood. A number of varieties of fish can be had: catfish, perch, whiting, and cod. Additionally, HF&C sells fried oysters (!), crabcakes, scallops, shrimp. Furthermore, there are deep-​fried sides such as zucchini, mushrooms, cheese sticks, jalapenos, hush puppies, and okra (!!) on tap. Regular readers can probably already assume that I had some oysters and crabcakes.
The oysters saved the day somewhat, that maize-​derived jacket steaming some juicy love into those fat little buggers. The cole slaw was very good as well, recalling that which KFC themselves still does a surprisingly damn fine job of with its milky dressing and cold crunchy veggies (kohlrabi?). In fact, it tasted almost exactly like KFC’s slaw, and that is not a bad thing. Not at all.
The crabcake, however, was a dismal puck of imitation crabmeat. Those red streaks do not lie. There was plenty of crab in each cookie, but damn it, people will pay more for real crabmeat, even if it’s claw meat or special and not jumbo lump. As I’ve stated before in reviews of crappy crabcakes, my mom’s beat ‘em all. She awaits an email from yinz for her most excellent recipe.
Dessert’s on the bill of fare too. Cheesecake, carrot cake, red velvet cake, banana pudding, pumpkin pie and even peach cobbler are there for the taking, but for me, it was the simple pleasure of a fudgy chocolate cake that recalled the grandest of lunchtime treats with its flap of deadly frosting and moist body.
Note to the proprietors: Ditch the gizzards. Start selling some drumsticks ‘n thighs. Use some real crustaceans in those deviled cakes. Cut your own fries. Business will pick up. Until then, I’ll be forgiving and grant y’all a 3. I want this place to do brisk commerce. It would do the neighborhood some good.