Catfish Charlie's at the Sni Landing

Catfish Charlie’s at the Sni Landing is a creekside fried-seafood restaurant and lounge on Route 224 outside Wellington, Missouri, with a patio over the Sni-A-Bar Creek and live music on weekends.

Description

Catfish Charlie’s sits at 6909 Highway 224 outside Wellington, Missouri, in Lafayette County at the far eastern edge of the Kansas City metro, where the highway runs along the Missouri River bottoms.¹² The business describes itself as a “rustic creekside destination on the Sni-A-Bar Creek serving catfish, crab legs, gator & more with a full-service bar, live music, patio seating.”²

The restaurant trades under two closely related names — “Catfish Charlie’s Restaurant & Lounge” on its current Facebook page and “Catfish Charlie’s at the Sni Landing” on listing sites — both referring to the same Highway 224 address.²³ The “Sni Landing” element refers to the Sni-A-Bar Creek landing the building overlooks.

Missouri’s primary alcohol licence record lists a Retail by Drink – Resort licence at 6909 Highway 224 held by L and J Partners LLC.¹ The “resort” classification is the category Missouri applies to establishments deriving a set proportion of receipts from food, and is consistent with a full-service restaurant rather than a bar.

The kitchen is fried-seafood-led: reviewers describe gator bites, cheese cubes, clam strips and Cajun catfish, and the patio view over the water is the feature most consistently singled out.⁴ Tripadvisor ranks it first of three restaurants in Wellington.⁵ The restaurant advertises live country music on weekend evenings.²

Ownership and history

The licensee of record is L and J Partners LLC; the Missouri alcohol licence record carries no named contact for the entity, so the operating owner’s identity is “.¹

The founding year is “. No first-party history page, chamber listing or press account giving an opening date could be located. Two indirect signals suggest the restaurant has been at the Sni Landing site for more than a decade — its Tripadvisor listing has accumulated thirty reviews and its Yelp listing twenty-nine photographs — but neither establishes a year and neither should be cited as one.⁵⁴

The current Facebook page under the “Restaurant & Lounge” name was created more recently than the listing-site records under the “Sni Landing” name, which may indicate a change of ownership, a rebrand, or simply a new page for an existing business. Which of these is the case is “.

Links

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Catfish-Charlies-Restaurant-Lounge-Wellington-MO-61555804268976/

Menu

The restaurant publishes no menu on a first-party website; the items below are as advertised on the business’s own Facebook page.²

• All-you-can-eat snow crab legs — $59.99, available Fridays and Saturdays
• Four-way endless shrimp — $26.99, available Fridays and Saturdays

Dishes named in customer reviews but without first-party pricing: fried catfish (including a Cajun preparation), gator bites, clam strips and fried cheese cubes.⁴ Full menu and pricing are “ pending a first-party menu photograph or in-person visit.

Sources

Footnotes

1. “Missouri Primary Alcohol Licenses,” Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control via data.mo.gov, dataset d9fr-pncw, accessed 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. “Catfish Charlie’s Restaurant & Lounge — Wellington, MO,” Facebook page, accessed 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. “Catfish Charlie’s At The Sni Landing,” Yelp business listing, Wellington, MO, accessed 2026-08-26 (used for published hours). URL ↩

4. “Catfish Charlie’s At The Sni Landing” customer reviews, Yelp, accessed 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. “Catfish Charlie’s, Wellington — Restaurant Reviews,” Tripadvisor, accessed 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩²