Before the current strip center here was built around late 2005, the site at 1808 Texas Avenue South was originally Long John Silver's No. 5347 in 19801, and closed in early 2005.2
The strip center originally had a Verizon store (still here, though changed logos after the parent company did), Systek Computing, and a restaurant space. Systek moved to a strip center behind the newer plaza when it was built by 2011 (later on it moved and eventually merged out of existence), with its space here being replaced by "Cash Store" (payday loans--and apparently that IS its legal name). The restaurant space started as Doc Green's, a soup/salad/sandwich chain out of the Atlanta area. It made its first stand in Texas here in late 2007 (and in Austin a few months later) with a logo that is no longer used by the company. Unfortunately, neither one did particularly well. The Austin one closed up in less than a year due to back taxes being owed, and the College Station one was shuttered by the end of 2008.3
Doc Green's closed at the end of 2008 with Naked Fish replacing it in early 2009. Naked Fish continued to operate for about fifteen years before closing in April 2024, with Tikka House Indian Eatery opening in December 2024 to replace it. Cash Store was also not an original tenant, it was originally Systek Computing. Systek moved to a strip center behind the newer plaza when it was built by 2011 and ultimately moved on and disappeared.
1. Like Bryan's store, this originally gone by the chain's old name "Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppe", though like Bryan never updated to new logos beyond their 1994 logo. It looked just like it (before it was torn down and rebuilt, anyway).
2. Previous versions of this page refer to it being a drug front; the article was actually referring to the Conroe location. LJS closed around that same time here (while that Conroe location remained open for another five or six years).
3. In July 2012, Jenny Jenkins wrote in to say this: "Doc Green's opened February/March 2007. I worked there for a very short time (March to May/June). It was run by some disgruntled former Freebirds managers that thought they could run a restaurant better than Freebirds (where I also worked for a couple years). They couldn't have been more wrong. They were so horribly disorganized that I can't believe they lasted. For example, they were open for months and still hadn't installed paper towel dispensers. They couldn't keep up with ordering and wouldn't order the same things so the menu changed constantly just because they'd run out of stuff. It just was really poorly done. I'm not sure when exactly they closed, but I know it was longer than expected. They were pretentious for a restaurant that casual but the food was pretty good."
UPDATE 05-11-2025: Made some changes including some more details about LJS and integrated previous updates, with some rewriting done. Renamed post to "Long John Silver's in College Station" to complement the post Long John Silver's in Bryan.
