There are restaurants that make you feel important, and then there’s Fat Man’s Fish Fry in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which makes you feel something much better: genuinely, completely fed.
That’s a distinction worth understanding before you go.
The first thing you notice is the sign.
A round, illuminated cartoon of a cheerful, round fellow holding a fish and a frying pan, surrounded by blue LED lights that frame the entire building in a glow that’s equal parts festive and inviting…