Mista Brown’s Seafood & Etc

The name has been changed to 4 brothers.

i will tell everyone this ive been going here for 10 years this is not a dine in. but they have fresh fish you pick out. they take to back clean it and cook it. you cannot get more or better bang for your buck. any kind of fish you want they have. some people get intimadated majority black neighborhood. i am white been going here 10 years and there is always smiling faces and the best fish and shrimp combo that can feed 2. i hope that people dont take this out of context. but you do not know what your missing out on.

The Real Deal!
If you love fresh fried fish this is the place to be! Real Southern fried fish– remember those fish fry parties on Saturday nights? The, hot out of the fryer, crispy and salty fish? I don’t think the fried fish gets any better than this!
FRESH! They have fresh fish sitting on the ice just waiting for you! Walk in, take a gander at the wall plastered with the menu listings — Croaker, Whiting, Bream, Crappie, Bass, Flounder… You tell the man what you want, raw, fried by the piece, or basket with fries. Once your order is placed another man comes out to the ice boxes, digs through the ice, grabs your fish, takes and cleans them. You then see a nice lady with a tray of cornmeal covered fish heading to the fat ladies manning the fryers. The whole process is kinda slow, and the place does smell like a fish market DA! But it is well worth it!
Like the other review states– Mista Browns is not about appearances, no fancy decorations, you share the waiting area with the open iced display cases of fish and flats of white bread, (I was the only other white thing in there:) HA! But everyone was super nice, other customers and staff as well! And the fish is out of this world good!
A three piece fried flounder basket, with hot crispy fries and two super soft slices of white bread, is about 7.50
This is what food is all about — Trying to find something good!- Worth a trip to Monticello Road — A must try!

OMG. This is as good as fried fish gets. Crispy, golden, extra-​crunchy, flaky, ever-​so-​slightly greasy fried goodness, served with multiple slices of white bread! (Or, as we say in the dirty: liie bread.) After driving eight grueling hours from DC to SC, I have –without stopping– shot right past the exit to my parents house and on down the interstate to Monticello Road for some Mista Browns.
I’m a SC to DC transplant. In five years of hood-​to-​hood searching, I have not been able to find decent fried fish in the District. At MB’s I can get fried Bream! BREAM people– and Crappie!!! I know Washingtonians who are reading this have no idea what a Bream (pronounced, brim) or Crappie is, but trust me, they are good, bony southeast US river and lake fish. Perfect for dusting in cornmeal and deep frying in 4-​day-​old grease.
Ok, enough crazy rambling. Mista Brown’s is kinda in the hood. It’s not too hood to me, but that’s my own opinion. Reeks of raw fish inside– probably because there are 3 giant open ice counters loaded with whole, fresh fish, which can be purchased whole by the pound, gutted and cleaned, or purchased to take home and stink up your house frying. The place is strictly takeout, no tables and whatnot and no fancy décor. No décor at all, unless you count the colorful characters who are always there waiting for their fishy goodness to be prepared. MB’s looks dirty. I don’t know if it is or not, but I really don’t care. Same crew of hefty sistas have been there manning the giant fry vats for YEARS. If you go, be prepared to wait. Fried fish is not the kind of thing you cook up and sit under a heat lamp– yech! Fish, shrimp, oysters are all fried to order, so they are tongue-​scorching hot when that greasy paper bag is placed lovingly in your hands.
Now I’m homesick.