St. Raphael Elementary School

It's closed
Mar 14th, 2020

Amazing school, great teachers, sad it closed, I was a student
Feb 3rd, 2020

Great fish and festival with parade
Nov 19th, 2019

Sep 20th, 2019

***Note that this review is for their fish fry only!***Another fish fry season is upon us! So that means for the next several Fridays, we'll be having dinner with a zillion of our fellow 'Burghers packed into church basement cafeterias. Our recent fish fry adventures took us to St. Raphael (although this one is actually held in their elementary school, not the church itself). We had read good things about this one, and it's close to our house, so we figured we'd kick off the fish fry season there. As with most fish fries, there was quite a line when we went, but it seemed to move at a reasonable pace (I think we only waited about 15 minutes or so).Now, for obvious reasons, I don't expect fish fries to deliver the same quality as a restaurant. So I try to evaluate them relative to each other. Admittedly, I'm not a fish eater (yeah, I know...why am I reviewing a fish fry?) Well, I love fish fry season for the abundance of other homemade offerings -- haluski, mac and cheese, pierogies (seriously, is there anything better than a church basement pierogie?!) Anyway, the fish fry here was quite meh. I got the pierogie dinner with sides of mac and cheese and corn. My hubby (who IS an avid fish fan) got the fried fish sandwich with fries and slaw. Both meals also came with a roll. I was super excited about my pierogies, as they were drenched in butter and onions, like good artery-clogging pierogies should be, but I took a bite and -- ACK! Mrs. T's! These were not church basement pierogies. I was so sad. The mac and cheese was also clearly frozen and not good at all (flavorless and mushy). My hubby was pretty ambivalent about his dinner as well. He stated that the fish on his sandwich tasted like a run-of-the-mill frozen fish fillet -- not terrible, not great. Overall, compared to other fish fries in the area, both my husband and I thought that this one is pretty average.
Feb 27th, 2018