Chowchilla, California: Restaurant with Outer Wall of Fish

The "World Famous Fish Museum" at the Red Top Cafe is in fact its outer wall, sealed behind glass, filled with dusty, cobwebby taxidermy game fish. The restaurant had closed by 2024, but the fish were still there.

Red Top Cafe and Market

Address:: 22792 Road 4, Chowchilla, CA
Directions:: Red Top Cafe and Market. On Lincoln Rd/Road 4 just south of Hwy 152/Ave. 23, a mile east of its intersection with Hwy 59/Los Banos Hwy.
Admission:: Free

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Restaurant with Outer Wall of Fish

Can't see anything unless you get up close, since the fish are behind the outer wall of windows. Market is closed now with a number of windows boarded up. Restaurant is up for lease.

[Georgia, 07/06/2024]

The fish were always only visible through the glass, perhaps suggesting the limited visibility of seawater. We hope that a new owner keeps the fish.

Fish museum.

Walls of Fish Museum

The Redtop Market and Cafe is a market and small Mexican diner outside of Chowchilla. It has seen better days, but there is a display of taxidermied shark and fish that wraps halfway around the building. It is starting to decay and flake, but is worth a quick peek if in the area.

[Joe D, 12/28/2012]

Red Top Market.

Red Top Cafe and Market - World Famous Fish Museum

An extensive collection of dusty, cobwebby taxidermied game fish, displayed between a plexiglass wall and the restaurant's original outer wall.

[Edward E, 08/20/2012]

The "museum" includes at least one shark hanging from the ceiling in chains, while other fish appear to teeter precariously from their wall nails. Gravity and time have tilted the identifying signs.