Michigan’s Best Local Eats: Trackside Cafe in Flushing offers tasty homemade pies - MLive.com

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FLUSHING, MI - A new breakfast and lunch diner recently opened in Flushing, filling a void in the city.

Trackside Café took over for the former Choo-Choo’s Diner, located near the railroad tracks on 424 Emily St.

It is operated by the owners of the Lennon Café in Lennon, offering homemade meals, soups, sandwiches, breakfast and pies.

“It’s a lot like Lennon Café, but we only have a breakfast and lunch menu, so it’s a smaller menu,” said owner Tammy Putnam, who opened Trackside Café on Feb. 21. “It has its own identity.”

After 32 years in business, Choo-Choo’s Diner closed its doors in December after owner William Angst retired.

With concerns of what would replace the establishment, it was important for the next business to offer a dining option at the same location.

“Some people in town were really upset and they wanted a family sit-down restaurant,” Putnam said. “They were afraid of losing that in their community.”

Along with business partner Bill Howard, Trackside Café was born, naming it after the railroad tracks nearby.

Everything from eggs, pancakes, omelets, breakfast sandwiches, burgers, steak, and chicken are offered, but Putnam’s homemade pies is what customers are blown away by upon eating.

“I do make my homemade crust and a lot of restaurants don’t do that anymore because it’s time consuming,” she said. “My mom always made my pies for me at Lennon Café and at the restaurant I owned previously. And when she passed away, I just wanted to carry on her tradition of homemade pies.

“It’s something I will never change because it reflects my mom and everything she taught me.”

Putnam’s pecan cream pie is the biggest seller, and she also makes a chocolate covered cherry pie, mint Oreo pie, blueberry cream, banana and raspberry pies.

As a business owner for over 27 years, Putnam has seen it all within the restaurant industry, and so far business has been booming for Trackside Café.

“We have met a lot of nice people and are already becoming friends and family,” she said. “It’s becoming a great adventure.”

Follow Trackside Café on Facebook.

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