Tropic Chicken - 1122 Taylor, Fort Wayne

$4.95 lunch plate
Two pieces of chicken in Gravy
Rice and Beans

Tropic Chicken – Latin Restaurant

1122 Taylor

Fort Wayne, IN 46802

(260) 422-3012

Tropic Chicken is hard to find. It is hidden behind the corner of a very small strip mall beside a Laundromat.  Behind the biker bar on the corner of Taylor and Broadway.   Across from Munchie Emporium.

Just keep looking, you will eventually find Tropic Chicken.

$4.95 lunch plate
Pork Ribs in Gravy with no beans,
with an added Pasty

Needs signage in the food like they do at the Kroger deli. Or at least the names of the food written on the glass outside the showcase so you can tell what everything is.  We had to ask the counter person.  Luckily the counter person spoke a little English and could tell us what everything was.  Still confused about the 3 different types of rice.  One rice was yellow, one was white with split peas cook in it, and the other was a very light pink.  

Everything tasted great, but everything needed a lot more spice.  You could use a bottle of hot sauce, but the food still needed to be kicked up a notch.  The guy who was dipping up everything made sure we had lots of yummy gravy over everything.  I knew I liked this guy for a reason.

Side of Sweet/Sour Meatballs

You order at counter, and tell them to eat in or to go.

This is a very casual place. You get your food and go sit down and enjoy it.  There are some booths and a table to sit at to eat in.  It was about 50/50 the amount of customers that ate in and the ones that took carry-out. Paper napkins and plastic tableware for eating in.

Mexican Bottled sodas ($1.25 each) and American Canned sodas (85cents each) in the fridge in the back of the small dining area.  The bottle opener is at the counter.  One table brought in their own gallon of "Sunny D" and something in a brown bottle.

Coconut Flan

Sweet Fried Plantain

Plain Flan & Coconut Flan

is waiting for you in the

refrigerator with the sodas.   

We tried the coconut and it was truly delicious.  

Firm, moist, flavorful and sweet.

The plantains were served hot and delicious. We had the choice of sweet or spicy plantains. A small order is one plantain, a large order is two plantains.

The many local Latin customers prove that the food at Tropic Chicken is delicious.