Today’s old Post Card comes courtesy of regular reader Linda C.
From the caption on the back:
[NOTE – I covered the Chicken Court before (other photos and info here) -Hard to believe this post was over four years ago!]
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What? 4 years! I was thinking it was LAST year!!
Still a great postcard though. Thanks Andrew!
Had my 8th grade graduation upstairs. This place became Don Cherry's and then it became a cess-pool for gun-toting hip-gangster wannabees (glad that place closed). I would take the chicken court any day over either entity any day.
The Chicken Court was wonderful! They catered my wedding. I remember the occasional meal there way, way back when I was just a kid.
i don't think i ever ate threre but always said i would
Great place in its day. On a funny note, went there one time to order a BBQ chicken dinner and the waitress was so embarassed to tell me they ran out of chicken ! The family were /are running their famous desserts on Tecumseh road east, same block as Brian's Sports, not sure if they are still there or not ?
Great place! It was a big deal to go to Chicken Court for dessert. I don't recall actually having a meal there though. The company I work for used to give all the employees a ham prepared by The Court. I remember the ham I received the first year I was married, 1985. A 22 pound monster, all dolled up with pineapple rings with a cherry centered in each and cloves, beautiful cross hatching and candied brown sugar,holy moly. The company still gives a ham to each employee, Honey Bee very tasty.
Lets all have a good year!!!
That photo is pre-expansion. The Court then built an addition to the south, shifted the counter to the left, and added a dining room. My brother Mark and I had many, many meals there. The pre-meal bread basket contained memorable (obviously, since I remember them 50 years later) corn muffins. Andy and his wife were a wonderful couple.
I ate there a few times back in the 1980's. Also, I remember my mom driving downtown and parking the car to run inside and pick up a cake that the Chicken Court was famous for;Mocha Torte. It was round with a hole in the centre and though it looked delicious, as a kid I never liked it! (I bet today I would eat it whole!)
Soo many happy memories of this great restaurant.Great fried chicken,hot chicken sandwiches,and cole slaw,best homeade gravy.Someone shoul re open it, keep it samll and vinteage,a possible gold mine.People will go anywhere if the food is GOOD.
Soo many happy memories of this great restaurant!Great fried chicken,hot chicken sandwiches,and cole slaw,best homemade gravy.Someone should re open it, keep it small and vinteage,a possible gold mine.People will go anywhere if the food is GOOD.