Jackson's Catfish Corner, a beloved Seattle institution famous for their fried catfish and hushpuppies, suddenly closed last weekend to the surprise of dedicated regulars. Currently, the restaurant is "completely boarded up, with its sign reversed, and no notice left explaining the sudden turn of events," writer Marcus Harrison Green reported in the South Seattle Emerald.

This week, restaurant owner Terrell Jackson's mother, Poochie, launched a GoFundMe campaign to help her son reopen the restaurant. Currently, the fundraising project has received $845 of its $10,000 goal.

Catfish Corner has been a pillar of the South Seattle community for decades.

Woodrow and Rosemary Jackson opened Catfish Corner in 1985 on Martin Luther King Jr. Way and East Cherry Street. When the restaurant closed in 2014, the Jacksons' grandson, Terrell, jumped in to save his family's restaurant. After a series of pop-up restaurants, he was able to reopen Jackson's Catfish Corner in South Seattle's Brighton neighborhood, where it began to flourish again in 2015.

Fans, the South Seattle Emerald reports, are dismayed that they've lost their beloved restaurant again.

The closure caught many of the restaurant’s regulars completely off guard, as business seemed to be operating normally only days before. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray even paid a ceremonial visit to the restaurant earlier in the week.

“I just drove by there a last Thursday, and things looked just like they always do, a line to get into it,” said Colleen Murphy, a Rainier View resident who says she visited the restaurant at least once a week for its fried catfish.

Terrell Jackson did not respond to The Stranger's calls for comment at the time of publication.