Cholesterol-Lovers Delight On Brainerd Road

Wayne and I tried a new restaurant located at 5665 Brainerd Road last weekend. It is called Choo Choo Fish & Chicken – and basically that’s the menu.

This place is a cholesterol-lovers delight. Not all, but most everything is deep fried, although they do have a small grilled menu – but even that is served with fries.

The menu consists of Chicken Wings where you can order from three ($3.29) up to one hundred ($48.99). On the Buffalo or Honey BBQ Wings menu, you can order two hundred for $79.99.

Chicken dinners consist of your choice of gizzards, tenders, nuggets, legs or thighs ($3.99 to $8.39). Choo Choo Fish & Chicken offers a large variety of fish including Ocean Perch, Jack Salmon (Whiting), Oysters, Frog Legs, Lake Smelt and Tilapia ($6.99 to $18.99). They certainly have a variety of Catfish styles on the menu – whole, filet, tails and nuggets. I don’t ever remember seeing Catfish Tails on a menu before – maybe it’s just me, but I always leave that part.



All dinners are served with fries, cole slaw and bread (regular loaf bread). You can also order Family Meals of Catfish, Ocean Perch or the two mixed priced from $13.99 for six filets to $57.99 for 50 pieces.

Side Orders include such items as Spaghetti (we thought this was strange as it didn’t “go” with the rest of the menu), okra, hush puppies, cheese sticks, etc. Side items are $.35 for Jalapenos to $3.50 for a family sized box of fries.

Upon entering, you go to the counter, order and pay. Your order is then brought to your table in “to go” boxes, complete with plastic ware. Tartar sauce is served in the little tear-open packets. Our drinks were not delivered until our food was served which meant we were sitting there waiting – no drink, no nuthin’.

I ordered the catfish filet (small has two large filets) and Wayne tried the Lake Perch. We both thought the fish was very tasty – nice, crispy filets that really weren’t very greasy. You get a LOT of fries, which were nice and crisp. They didn’t have that frozen taste, even though they probably were. The cole slaw comes in a very small plastic container with a lid. It had a sweet taste, but you don’t get enough to savor the flavor – it’s maybe a tablespoon-sized serving.


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