The old-school fish shack not far from the state line at 3259 E. 95th St. in Chicago's far South Side South Deering neighborhood will reopen at 9 a.
m. It will serve fried seafood all day but won't have smoked seafood until about 1 p.m.
to 2 p.m. Calumet Fisheries, which smokes seafood the old-fashioned way in the shadow of the 95th Street bridge on the far South Side once dominated by steel mills, had been closed since last fall.
It was closed by health inspectors and then suffered a devastating fire right after it opened in November. The 96-year-old fish shack smokes salmon, sturgeon, catfish, oysters and other seafood in brick smokehouses for six or seven hours. It has earned James Beard American Classic Award and recognition from CNN as one of America's 10 Best Historic Restaurants.
It's appeared on television shows like Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations," WTTW's "Check Please!" and "Hungry Hound." Calumet Fisheries also appears in "Blues Brothers" in the scene where Elwood and Joliet Jake Blues jump the 95th Street Bridge to test out the new Blues mobile. The film crew dined there for three days while shooting the bridge jumping scene.
The long-running institution is takeout-only and cash-only but has an ATM inside. People order their seafood out of a glass case and then eat it in their cars on the bridge or outside on picnic benches overlooking the Calumet River near its mouth on Lake Michigan. Calumet Fisheries warned customers on social media that chubs are scarce an.
