Good locally owned tavern with great food and atmosphere! The employees are very friendly along…read morewith the people inside. The place offers gaming/slots. Saturday's are the most popular with their special being steak or wings depending on the weekend. Would definitely come back!

How awesome that this is listed under "nightlife?" Classic So-Il tavern. Stop in any given night,…read moreand you will likely find someone related to me. Have knocked back a few with L and G there back in the day. Five stars for nostalgia's sake. And how fantastic is it that I am the first to review it?

Luxury dining with great service and outstanding food! A little pricey, but worth it.read more

We went to Ruthie's for my son's 25th birthday. Everything was outstanding. Our waiter, Austin, was…read moresuperb. The food was delicious. We had a crab cake and 2/3 pound of Alaskan King crab legs for appetizers. Both excellent. For dinner we had filet medallions with shrimp and my son had the Chilean sea bass. We had mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese for sides. Filet was cooked perfectly and the sea bass was as well. It is not inexpensive, but very good. We highly recommend.

Best darn seafood in Southern Illinois! The best fish sandwiches and red beans and rice. The other…read moreentrees are excellent too. Great staff too!

Great fish and love their food. And the service is awesome, everybody was friendly…read more Again?I can't say enough about the food.The food was incredible.I love their fish

We come here every so often and have always liked the food. Today we get here early about 4 pm to…read morebeat the rush. The dinning room wasn't very full but when they seated us they took us to what used to be a patio. Now it's enclosed and there is a bar a stage and plenty of seating. My problem was the fans that were blowing made it difficult to have a conversation with my wife across the table. I told the server it was almost too noisy and was having a hard time hearing him talk. He said he'd talk louder. That didn't really fix the problem. Not real sure why we were seated in this area because the dinning room had plenty of space. We had a little trouble communicating our order because of the noise. As I stated a couple times to our server. I communicated I have trouble hearing in areas like this and he just kept talking louder. Anyway we finally got our food ordered and went for a salad in the next room. My wife even commented on the empty tables and asked my why I thought they put us in that big room. Idk? So we get our salad and it was good. Kretzers had a decent salad bar. One of the reasons we like the place. I ordered a 12oz ribeye rare with a baked potato. Wife got chicken strips with gravy and mashed potatoes and gravy. When the food arrived everything looked good and the server said some things that I have no idea what. Even the wife didn't know. I go to open the butter for my pita and it's not butter. It's an oil whip. I do not eat fake butter. It's harmful. To find out they have no butter in the place. So I tell my server of the situation and looks at me like he has no idea what to do. Turns and walks away. So I eat my steak and stare at the baked potato. I am a recent cancer survivor and have no ability to make saliva. So I needed the butter to make the potato edible. Or even gravy or something. I told the server but I don't think he heard me correctly or didn't know what to do. It was so loud with the stupid fans. So while I do recommend Kretzers and like their steaks and crab legs and salad bar. I don't recommend their new addition to dine in. And if you want real butter bring your own. I was a little disappointed with our experience this time around.

You get a great bang for your buck here! They have all you can eat deals and unlimited salad and…read moresoup bar. The fried chicken and shrimp is AMAZING. Our service was a little slow at times but she was very friendly and working a few other tables. Everything else was just ok. I do want to come back for the all you can eat crab legs.

Drinks appetizers entrees and deserts were all excellent! Both our steaks were perfect!…read more The service was also amazing. They knew the menu and wine list intimately and had the best recommendations we could have asked for. Can't wait to dine here again and will be stopping in Mt Vernon from now on!

One of the oddest cheeseburgers I can recall ever ordering. While I admire the chef's /…read morerestaurant's enthusiasm to do something exotic, here, it didn't work. It's about execution. The meat was quite odd, both in consistency and taste. If I had to guess, they took reject pieces from their steaks and ground them up, perhaps several days ago? You couldn't cut through it with a fork. It had a strange taste to it. It wasn't at a warm or hot temperature and tasted stale. The onions that they added were delicious, but way too minuscule in size and bulk to have any taste impact. The bun was ordinary, despite their raving and reliance on its quality, and it being a Kaiser roll. The burger lacked customary garnish. Why I order cheeseburgers at high end establishments? In part? I like the quality thick beefsteak tomato slice and crisp, fresh lettuce. Here? No garnish at all, just a patty with a little cheese and onion. If the patty was fresh black angus and juicy, without the weird consistency and taste present here, and had they lavished it with mountains of similar onion and more cheese? --The risky and odd approach to making a cheeseburger might have proven successful. For this cheese to suffice, it, too, would have needed to be more pungent in taste, and abundant in presence. You could barely taste it. The mashed potatoes were quite good but way too salty. I literally crunched down on some salt crystals. That's when you know there's inordinate salt. Weird service and rock hard chairs made this bizarre stop on the way to St. Louis/ Denver more painful to savor. What irritates me was that I had to order a Caesar salad just to obtain roughage. And when you take the $30 for the salad and burger combined into account? That's a lot for such an odd experience. In summary, anyone who watches and implements the Gordon Ramsay Fword cheeseburger recipe on YouTube will end up with a vastly superior cheeseburger. In this town, while I am visiting only, from what I've read and seen in reviews, I'd recommend instead the frosty mug for basic food along these lines. A $24 burger better be pretty darned special to attract this sort of tab. This was just weird, not great. Sorry, no photos.

So this was my first time here. It was a special occasion and was perfect. Friendly front of house…read moreservice. The food is fabulous. Kristin and I went there for her birthday. Her adult daughter is a chef there and works the line making sure all the food is perfect. You won't go hungry. The food is priced reasonably and the atmosphere is awesome. It reminds you of a place in SoHo NY. While this is in a small town it shows and eats like a big dog. Go check them out. You won't be disappointed.

I had a customer dinner here on a recent business trip and I was super impressed. Several of us had…read moresteaks and another had a cheeseburger. The food was all fantastic as were the Wagyu beef meatballs. and fried mushrooms. Overall, the waitstaff and food were top notch. One of the best meals I have had in a while

This is our go to place for dinner celebration Classy and…read morewarm, food is outstanding, hospitality tremendous

We went on a Mother's Day, the week after the kids wanted to treat me and I chose this place…read morebecause I had been wanting to try it. We had 4 appetizers lamb chops, mussels, crab cakes and quail. The lamb was delicious but we didn't like the mussels which are normally a favorite but they were too dry and chewy baked and some crumb topping and the little sauce underneath was not helping. Crab cakes were just ok again the sauce was just odd and didn't complement the dish. The quail we weren't a fan of. The Caesar salad was amazing and the pumpkin apple leek soup was delicious as were the flaky croissants. Some had the blackened sea bass and loved it. I had a steak with cognac cream sauce, again the sauce was off putting and over powered the filet. The other steak was topped with their version of an Oscar sauce that had Swiss cheese and crab meat with a tarragon cream sauce and it's offered on most this at an up charge of $15 or so. Honestly the place is lovely and the service was pretty good. I think we would go again armed with the knowledge of ordering everything without any sauce or getting it on the side so it wouldn't ruin anything. We're all fairly adventurous eaters and we all agreed on the sauces issue. We went early so it wasn't crowded and it was quiet and had nice decor of an older Victorian style house with a few too many stairs that again I think I would ask to be seated on the entry level so I only have to climb the stairs to the porch which is shady and nice.

Great place family owned staff and food were good Check out…read morethe wings and tacos The owners Went above and beyond to accommodate our large group of college volleyball team coaches and parents

Nice and clean. Service was great! All the food we got was really good! Will definitely come back…read more Highly recommend the fried mushroom but all the appetizers we tried were good. Same with the country fried steak special.