Dining
BY KAREN CHANEY
Cajun Tricky Fish ($22.95) features blackened cat sh.
Fried cat sh po’boy ($14.95) is dressed with lettuce, tomatoes, onion, pickles and tartar sauce, and served with fries.
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Cajun Fish Grill serves made-from-scratch recipes Although restaurateur and chef Miguel Mercado is neither Cajun nor from Louisiana, when it came time to open a restaurant in his hometown of McKinney, Mercado chose to open Cajun Fish Grill topped with craw sh étou ée. Mercado creates recipes for all menu items. “Everything is made from scratch,” Mercado
Miguel and Alan Mercado co-own the restaurant.
said. “The tartar sauce, cocktail sauce, clam chow- der, craw sh chowder, shrimp gumbo—everything is from scratch.” What else? The Mercados are grateful for their large number of repeat customers. “There’s a guy that always comes in—his name is Troy—he came on the rst day we opened to try us out,” said Alan Mercado, one of Miguel Mercado’s sons. “He’s still coming and bringing friends and family. He always posts [on social media] and we appreciate him for that.”
because Cajun food is his favorite cuisine. “I’ve been a professional chef for 44 years. My specialty is French food,” Mercado said. “My favorite food to eat is Cajun food, which is like a marriage of French and African cuisine.” Mercado opened Cajun Fish Grill in 2024. He co-owns the business with his wife and two sons. On the menu Top selling menu items are fried cat sh, the fried shrimp po’boy and the Tricky Fish, which is a grilled blackened cat sh served over rice and
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