Just your little home in the wall with great service and amazing food. BBQ was fantastic!!!read more

Fries were soggy and fish was overcooked to the point it was hard!!!…read moreHave not had a good experience the last three times we've been there! We're done!

So sad. Walked down from the hotel and it appears that the Show Down got shut down. This was a…read moredecent food place with great service and so convenient to the hotels in the area but is gone now.

I was not expecting much but I should know better. We ahve passed this on our way to some other…read morestate from time to time and alwys say we should stop here. So we did. Its nt the decor or the location that gt 5ive stars. Its the great steaks and attentive friendly service. Very local vibe, people seemed to know each other and the staff was very chatty. Maybe a little too much because we ahd to keep flagging our waitress down who seemed a bit scattered. But still she was very nice. Other staff members checked on us several times so we were never lacting in anything. The stake I ordered (medium rare) which I always order came out very rare. If it was a little more done I would not have said anything. But someone from the kitchen stopped by the table and asked if I was ahppy with the tempature. I was nice about it and said, well not really, this seems very rare to me, not medium rare. WIthout complain he quickly took the stake on a side dish leaving the rest of myt meal to enjoy. Teo minutes laters a perfectly medium rare stake came out with a bit of char on the outside, hot and pink while still juicy inside. And it was a very good, very thick streak. Honestly I had wished I'd ordered a large cut. ANd isn't a great steak your looking for when going to a steakhouse?

Stumbled across this restaurant on a trip to St Louis, and we're glad we stopped. The first thing…read moreto catch the eye is a long glass-front counter full of delightful-looking desserts. The restaurant is obviously a local favorite spot as many other patrons were greeted by name by staff or other diners. We seated ourselves in a booth, of which circles the rest of the room with several tables down the middle. Service was quick, sweet tea for me, not often found in Illinois dining, but perfectly done for this southern girl. Hubby was just as happy with his unsweet tea. The homemade vegetable soup was warm, thick with vegetables, even some cabbage, midst the creamy broth. My hand-presses cheeseburger was as delectable as any, and would have been perfect if tomatoes were in season and carried more flavor. But the lettuce was crisp, the onion sharp, and the pickles crunchy. Hubby has a tossed salad and the catfish dinner. The fish was cooked in cornmeal, a real "down home" dish, plenty of it and plenty of flavor. Hush puppies were delicious, but not enough of them. Then, we both ordered dessert even though we knew we couldn't finish them: strawberry cake and a lemon crème pie. Out of this world! The price was reasonable for the excellent food and service, even in these days of austerity. We definitely intend to return to The Grille!

Stopped in for lunch coming from Kansas City to Louisville. Good choice. I was leaning toward the…read moreGyro sandwich or catfish. The server suggested the Wisconsin burger. I got that. Oh my was it good. The fries were blazing hot right out of the fryer. The wife got French dip which she said was really good.

Great service ! Attentive and happy when I found a really good Sauvignon Blanc DuckHorn Vineyards…read more Ready for excellent steak

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.

They have amazing steaks. Especially the ribeye!!! Service is great too. Polite and professional.read more

We ate here for breakfast when we stayed at the DoubleTree hotel. This restaurant is located inside…read morethe hotel. Pros: Cant beat the location and price....it was free since I was staying at the hotel. Staff was friendly and regularly checked up on us to refill coffees. Cons: Seems like the staff had a hard time keeping up with the food in the buffet area. 2 out of the 3 times I went up, the trays were half empty. I had limited time so not having food readily available was unfortunate.

Had a nice dinner with my family. First time to dine here but won't be the last. The service was…read moregreat and the food was delicious. Had the salad bar as one of my sides. Wasn't huge but enough for a nice salad. Our group had steaks and catfish. Everyone was happy with their food and all the steaks were cooked how each person had ordered and tasted great.

Catfish nuggets are THE BEST EVER!! I love that it's a family friendly atmosphere! I recommend…read moreTrackside to anyone who's traveling through the area!

Very good food quickly served and I love the atmosphere. Love watching planes flyingread more

Wow! Fantastic home town restaurant with all the best comfort foods we all grew up with…read morewith. We found it on our drive from Georgia to Iowa just after a major blizzard hit. As an added benefit, it's in the airport.

Well what to say. It's wings but with that said the wings were cold and dry. The to go order was…read moreway hotter than what we had sitting. The service was ok

I think this was our second time here as we are not in town very often. The air conditioning must…read morehave been on full blast because we had to place something on our napkins so they didn't blow away. We asked to move tables and ended up on the patio which wasn't much better since the tables were dirty with caked on ketchup and wobbly. We had to go in to ask to get more water and the bill in order to pay to leave. The food was horrible. Onion rings were probably precooked and sat under a heat lamp..not good. The boneless wings were nugget shaped and some mostly breading and hard. The highlight was the celery and dip. I suspect this restaurant will eventually close too like so many others which is sad since this is a small town on an interstate.

Good fast service and a fair price Had the B & G and a…read morecinnamon roll waffle they both are pretty good

Great food and service was fast! This was our 2nd trip here after passing through the area two…read moreyears ago. It was impressive then and now. Lots of amazing choices on the menu.

Visit Date: 01/30/26. Visit Time: 4-5:30 PM…read more As usual our food was great - early dinner Smokey Southern Grilled Chicken which we both had. Reason for review is to recognize our server Jessica D. We both noticed how hard she worked. Constantly on the move, never missing a beat. A truly nice and friendly person.

Five stars for a great breakfast after spending the night in our RV in the parking lot. Yes,…read moreCracker Barrel allows RVers to use their parking lot for overnight parking with the kind request that if you're eating, you enjoy that meal with them. Warmly welcomed right as they opened at 7am, we had coffee within two minutes and ordered breakfast. French Toast for Mrs. K. and basted eggs with bacon for me. It arrived with biscuits and butter and jam. A perfectly done breakfast. [Review 1452 of 2025 - 224 in Illinois - 25005 overall]