My family and I are on a road trip and we stopped here on the way and the service was absolutely…read moreamazing. After being stuck in a car for a couple hours this was the best place to stop. The food was absolutely amazing and all of the servers were so incredibly nice to us. We will definitely be back!! Thank you to our server Jaime!!

A must try effingham staple…read more Eat on the salad bar or diner side and enjoy a hometown style meal or the spring rolls! Every time we visit this town we try to get in a meal or at least take home one of their handmade pies or cookies. They rotate staff a lot but the food is always the same so it's a good bet you will have a good meal. Don't forget they do a great job catering!

We went here because it was on our fork in the road card. It was an adventure as it is nearly an…read morehour drive but we enjoyed it. There was a lot of things on the menu I would be excited to try. We got there on the anniversary so there were 3 Christmas themed drinks that were $4 each which was a great deal. The moscato punch was great! As an appetizer we got the JB's béchamel Boats. These were basically a little fancier potatoe skins. They were very good. It came with 4 of them and the Bechamel sauce did make them special. I got the Norwegian Salmon which was honey glazed. It was good. I would recommend. I wish it was more charred on the edges. I got the mashed potatoes and the garlic Parmesan broccoli. If you like garlic, you will love the broccoli. It was really flavorful! You get a ton of mashed potatoes and they were good. My boyfriend got surf and turf. A filet mignon and scallops. He got two scallops and they were both wrapped in bacon. It thought they were smaller than what he was expecting. The steak he thought was good as well and the French onion soup he got as a side. As dessert we got the chocolate lava cake and the bread pudding. Both were really good! The atmosphere is decently fancy with waiters dressed in nice clothing and nice table clothes on all the tables. Definitely a good vibe. I would go again but would try other entrees.

The coconut shrimp was delicious! Party of 6, right after work (dinner time). Every glass was dry…read moremajority of dinner! Servers were hard to find to ask for more (we only got ONE drink refill the rest of the meal they were dry!)! When a server was finally found to request ketchup (that should have came with 4 meals automatically), we were given ONE small to go container of ketchup to split among the table. I didn't taste the steaks, but the main issue was serving! The delicious shrimp is the only reason they got more than one star

La Fuente is the best. Friendly staff, great food. Always leave a great tip- they deserve it.read more

Good, fast, and friendly. I would recommend for a casual lunch or dinner. Careful ordering a…read morelarge draft beer, it's 32 oz!

My boyfriend and I went there for our "monthaversary", specifically for the prime rib, which we had…read moreheard was the best, well let me tell you- we heard correctly! My boyfriend likes his meat well done which can be hard to get without it being dry and overcooked, but his was done but was still tender and juicy. Mine was cooked medium and was cooked to perfection. They both practically melted in our mouths! The price for a 12 oz. prime rib dinner with salad and side was more than reasonable. We were very pleased, if you're looking for GOOD food, great service and a nice atmosphere look no further. We will be going back regularly.

Passing through Whittington/Benton, IL and came across this gem. I'll start wit the owner is a Cubs…read morefan but we won't hold that against him because he makes a fantastic ribeye steak. Steak was perfectly prepared , juicy and delicious. I had fresh cut steak fries and a simple tossed salad with awesome in-house ranch dressing. Will certainly be back when in the area.

Anthony is the man. The saloon in the back is the best bar in town. Pizza Hut tastes like AIDS and…read morenightmares compared to Anthony's pizza. We have our daughter's birthday party there every year. Random, but relevant.

This used to be a 5-star restaurant. It seems as though the restaurant has transitioned into more…read moreof a bar that delivers pizza than a restaurant. The beer selection has gone WAY downhill. I want to support Anthony because he is an awesome guy but I can't go back there until the situation changes. This has been by far the longest gap between visits I've ever had. PLEASE GET BETTER SOON!

Stopped in for lunch, burgers were amazing. Staff was friendly. Would definitely eat here againread more

Best burger joint in southern illinios I go every couple…read moredays for the texas rodeo mmmm delicious

This food was fricking amazing better then Texas road house and everything taste amazingread more

A-1 place!! Food was excellent! Service great! Ambiance superb! Will definitely return!read more

Maybe the worst restaurant of all time. Went in there while passing through town. We were hungry so…read morewe stopped in. We didn't want McDonalds or anything like that. We went into the place and all of the tables had dirty plates on them while the person behind the counter was just reading a magazine. He could have moved his butt out of the seat and cleaned up a little. As far as the food, it was worse! The hot and sour soup had a skin on it that, kid you not, was nearly an inch thick. So, didn't eat that. Nothing on the buffet was labelled, so we had to guess what was what. To my friend's surprise, she ended up eating frog legs for the first time. Honestly, this place should be closed for sanitary reasons. This was the most unsanitary restaurant I have ever visited. If this place went out of business, that would be a blessing.

Not bad. Not the best I've had, but not bad. Average buffet.read more

I've been all over this country eating wherever I go and let me tell you good people of Mount…read moreVernon: you don't know just how good you have it by having this restaurant in town. Best pork chop of my life. Amazing mashed potatoes. The pickle fries? We ordered a second round of them; they were so good. The Italian lemonade (alcohol) was fantastic. Service was amazing. Half price apps when we came in. And prices of the food overall? Yall are getting Olive Garden prices for some of the best food you may ever have. I've had mashed potatoes at all the chain steak houses. I've had French fries everywhere. I've eaten at fairly fancy ritzy places in Vegas, NYC, San Francisco, San Antonio, Boston. All over. And literally this is some of the best food I've ever had. TRY THE PORK CHOPS. And we also appreciate being treated nicely even though my friend group was dressed up or goth girls night lol. We looked out of place but felt at home and left very very happy ladies.

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.