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403 Wilcox St. Castle Rock, CO 80104

303-814-2233

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Best Fried Chicken
Award Winner 2007

Cuisine(s): American

Hours: Sun 11:30am-8pm, Mon-Fri 11am-2:30pm, Mon-Thu 4:30pm-9pm, Fri-Sat 4:30pm-10pm

Price: $$, $$$
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, cash

Features: Family Style, Private Party, Smoking, Takeout

Serving: Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Lot Available, Street

Description

The Castle Café's been cooking since the 1890s. Under countless owners, this storefront eatery has been a gathering place for miners, ranchers, cowboys, drunks, locals, travelers and everyone in between. Today, it's also a destination for people who are addicted to authentic, Kansas City-style pan-fried chicken, which was introduced by the folks who bought the place in 1996. As you step through the door, the first thing you notice is the smell of chicken frying. The second, how comfortable and nicely worn everything is. The third, how quickly you can relax.

2007 | Best Fried Chicken

This is great chicken, slow-cooked chicken, tender and greasy chicken sheathed in a crisp armor of salt-and-peppered batter, a one-off of the incomparable Kansas City style practiced by places like Stroud's and a hundred and one less well-known fry joints and chicken shacks. It's also chicken that can take more than forty minutes to arrive, because every bird that's ordered at Castle Cafe is split in half, hand-floured and cooked to order in a shallow pan by a guy whose only job is to watch... More »
2006 | BEST FRIED CHICKEN

Real pan-fried chicken is a rarity. Making it is labor-intensive, time-consuming, messy and ties up a godawful amount of stove-top real estate in a busy galley. Good pan-fried chicken is even rarer, because there just isn't that much call for it in this part of the country -- and unless you were raised way down south or in Kansas City, you probably don't know good from bad from mediocre, anyway. But take our word for it: The pan-fried chicken served at Castle Cafe is a damn fine version of... More »

Fry It, You'll Like It

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 08, 2005

I love expensive cheeses. The good ones -- cave-aged, smeared in ash, riddled with veins of carefully tended mold, rubbed down by nuns and Italian virgins in towns whose names I can barely pronounce, made from the milk of animals whose teats I wou... More »
Mouthing Off

By Kyle Wagner | Thu, September 17, 1998

Take a dip: Every decade has its dip. Clam dip in the Fifties. Lipton Onion Soup dip in the Sixties. Yogurt in the swinging Seventies. Hummus in the international Eighties. And the Nineties? During the past decade, assorted artichoke dips--som... More »
It Takes Pluck

By Kyle Wagner | Thu, September 17, 1998

Kansas City smells of barbecue, especially on road trips when cash is short and hunger's high, and the aroma just intensifies until there's nothing you can do but stop at a roadside stand and get a bag of bones that will last you through Nebraska.... More »

Dinner Menu

Appetizers

$7.09

Polish Kabanosy

$8.09

Eggs With Caviar

$7.59

Herring In Sour Cream

$7.09

Smoked Salmon

$7.29

Castle Bites

$17.49

Appetizers Sampler Plate

$10.69

Potato Pancakes

Soups
All Soups Are Served With German Light, Rye And Dark Bread

Small Bowl $4.09
Large Bowl $5.39

Zurek
a sour soup with chopped sausage, eggs, and potatoes

Small Bowl $4.09
Large Bowl $5.39

Goulash
beef soup with peppers, potatoes, and mushrooms

Small Bowl $3.89
Large Bowl $5.29

Soup Of The Day
ask your server for the soup of the day

Salads
All Salads Are Served With German Light, Rye And Dark Bread

$8.69

Caesar Salad
romaine lettuce, croutons, parmesan cheese, boiled egg and caesar dressing

$10.59

Greek Salad
tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, onions, olives, feta cheese, and greek salad dressing

$10.09

Castle Salad
romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, half-sour pickles, onions, radishes, green peppers, chopped boiled egg, and a sweet house dressing

$6.69

German Potato Salad

$12.49

Fried Chicken Salad
lettuce, tomatoes, and onions topped with a piece of sliced fried chicken

$12.49

Schnitzel Salad
lettuce, tomatoes, and onions topped with sliced schnizel

Dinners
Please Allow 30 Minutes Preparation Time. All Schnitzels Are Also Available In Veal For An Additional $ 7.20 Dinners For Children 12 And Under Are Available At Half Price.

With Cheese And Potatoes $12.19
With Meat (beef Or Chicken) $12.19
With Sauerkraut And Mushrooms $12.19

Pierogi
topped with onions and served with sour cream. for fried pierogi add $0.50

$17.19

Golobki - Available With Veal Or Vegetarian
stuffed cabbage served with fresh tomato sauce and roasted potatoes and a small salad

$19.29

Castle Goulash
beef, onions, peppers and mushrooms served on top of a potato pancake or kopytka (special polish homemade potato noodles) and a small salad

$15.89

Bigos
sauerkraut, beef, sausage, onion, dried plums, red wine, mushrooms stewed in a pot, served with roasted potatoes and a small salad

$15.99

Polish Kielbasa
grilled sausage topped with pan-fried onions and mushrooms served with french fries or roasted potatoes and a small salad

$15.29

German Bratwurst
two grilled bratwursts served with sauerkraut, french fries or roasted potatoes and a small salad

$15.29

German Meatballs
two pieces served with roasted potatoes and sauerkraut and small salad

$15.19

Jaeger Potato Pancake
our delicious mushroom jaeger sauce served on top of a potato pancake and a small salad

$16.69

Chicken Livers
own secret recipe served with roasted potatoes and sauerkraut and a small salad

$18.19

Chicken Breast Schnitzel
served with red cabbage, roasted potatoes and a small salad

$18.19

Wienerschnitzel
lean pork fillet, breaded and fried, served with sauerkraut and french fries or roasted potatoes and a small salad

$19.69

Jaegerschnitzel
wienerschnizel with mushroom sauce topping, served with roasted potatoes and a small salad

$21.69

Zigeunerschnitzel
wienerschnitzel topped with peppers, served with roasted potatoes and a small salad

$19.19

Litauershnitzel
wienerschnitzel topped with onions, served with roasted potatoes and a small salad

$19.99

Schnitzel Ala Holstein
wienerschnitzel topped with two fried eggs, served with roasted potatoes and a small salad

$23.19

Castle Schnitzel
wienerschnitzel topped with portabella mushrooms, served with red cabbage, sauerkraut, roasted potatoes and a small salad

$24.09

Queen’s Feast
lean pork fillet, breaded and fried, topped with capers, served with kopytka, sauerkraut, red cabbage and a small salad

$21.79

Beef Roulade
rolled beef fillet with bacon, pickle and onion, served with red cabbage, german spaetzle or roasted potatoes and a small salad

$21.69

Chicken Roulade
rolled chicken breast with bacon, pickle, and onion, served with jager sauce, red cabbage, german spaetzle or roasted potatoes and a small salad

$17.89

Koeningsberger Klopse
six meatballs from veal, served in mushroom dill sauce with red cabbage, german spaetzle or kopytka and a small salad

$21.09

Pork Tenderloin
in almond sauce with german spaetzle or kopytka, red cabbage and a small salad

$36.50

Rack Of Lamb
rack of lamb, simmered in natural gravy, served with sauerkraut, red cabbage, german spaetzel or kopytka and a small salad

$21.79

Sauerbraten
tender beef round, marinated for seven days, served in plum raisins wine sauce with spaetzle and red cabbage and a small salad

$19.69

Matias Hering
two fillets with roasted potatoes and a small salad

$20.69

Jager Pierogi
cheese and potato pierogi topped with our jager sauce and a small salad

$27.19

King’s Feast
fried pork chop, german potato salad, two potato pancakes with a small salad

$20.89

Hunter’s Feast
bigos, polish kielbasa and kopytka together on one plate served with a small salad

$21.29

Pierogi And Goulash
cheese and potato pierogi topped with our house goulash served with a small salad

Add To Any Dinner

$4.09

French Fries

$4.39

Small Salad

$4.09

Red Cabbage

$4.09

Sauerkraut

$4.09

Roasted Potatoes

$4.09

Spaetzle

$4.09

Kopytka

$5.39

Potato Dumplings

$6.69

German Potato Salad

Sweets

$6.09

Apple Cake
with vanilla ice cream

$6.39

German Black Forest Cake

$6.39

German Chocolate Cake

$7.49

Castle Crepes (nalesniki)
two crepes filled with a sweet homemade cheese filling, covered with chocolate and topped with whipped cream

$9.49

Blueberry Or Strawberry Pierogi
delicious hand-made pierogi filled with berries, covered with chocolate and topped with whipped cream

$6.19

Knight's Delight
three scoops of delicious vanilla ice cream with a delightful italian syrup and fruit, topped with whipped cream and a cherry

$5.49

Strawberry Or Caramel Sundae
two scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with strawberry or caramel syrup, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry

$6.49

Castle Ice Cream
two scoopes of vanilla ice cream topped with a delicious plum wine syrup (this dessert contains alcohol, for adults only)

$2.19

One Scoop Of Vanilla Ice Cream

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Castle Cafe

403 Wilcox St. Castle Rock, CO 80104

303-814-2233

Description

2007 | Best Fried Chicken

2006 | BEST FRIED CHICKEN

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 08, 2005

By Kyle Wagner | Thu, September 17, 1998

By Kyle Wagner | Thu, September 17, 1998