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    Rudi's Grill

    3.5 (22 reviews)
    InexpensiveAmerican
    Open 6:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Outdoor seating
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Poor boy and fries!
    Matthew C.

    This become a favorite local spot for me recently. Whether you're craving breakfast (served all day), or even one of the best open faced sandwiches you've ever had, this place delivers on all levels you'd want from a small town dinner: Home-style food. Quick service. Relaxed environment. Super friendly staff. Don't pass on the pie either, because they have a solid lineup of pies available daily! I will always recommend this to people!

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    Jan J.

    Stopped in on advice from reviews. They were spot on! We both had a Horseshoe. We choose it with biscuit and sausage patties. Biscuit toped with has browns then 2 sausage patties gravy then eggs of choice on top. All was delicious and its huge. It was seved fairly quick and hot. Coffee was always refilled without asking.You can choose between bicscuit or toast, sausage bacon or ham and egg type for the Horseshoe Rudie's staff was very friendly. Very clean. Decor pleasing. Christmas decorations were steps above most cheap decor you find in businesses. It is a little tricky to find if you are out of towners as we were. Rudi's sits next to Dunham Sports in a strip mall off the highway. Added to my favorites and will definately stop again when we travel thru. Great local establishment.

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    Tim M.

    Good place to grab breakfast, not many choices in Jacksonville. Our experience was Saturday morning breakfast, waitress was nice and polite. Standard breakfast choices, plus a buffet on weekend. I tried the horseshoe- which is a central Illinois thing, can be a breakfast or lunch time pile of food . This one was a biscuit topped with hash brown potato's , sausage patty, two eggs, then sausage gravy. Obviously this is not the dieters plate. Was tasty, no complaints. To sum it up, do not expect a bistro dining experience but a good alternate to the chain restaurants and drive through burger joints in town.

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    Food service. The food was great the pie was excellent the homemade soup was so special.

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    Good food good people. Love Sunday morning brunch. Bowl of grits every time. Always treated well

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    7 years ago

    Best little buffet in Jacksonville. We loved the variety. We will visit every trip to Illinois!!

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    Obed & Isaac's Microbrewery and Eatery - Mac n cheese balls

    Obed & Isaac's Microbrewery and Eatery

    3.9(1.1k reviews)
    33.3 mi
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    After stopping by the Abraham Lincoln House and library, we came across this microbrewery and had…read moreto go in! They also have a cidery, but it wasn't open during this season. Thankfully we still were able to get one cider, and they had a selection of other beers. The cider was tart and refreshing, and I really like the berry mocktail, which had ginger beer, and a mix of berries in it. As for food, the Nashville hot chicken sandwich came with a lot of heat which was great. I got the dry rub version, which is spicer than the saucy version. The horseshoe sandwich is a local favorite, which is an open faced sandwich with sliced bread topped with meat (we got the angus beef), fries, and cheese sauce. It was quite heavy and creamy because of all the sauce. Overall we enjoyed our meal and our server was very friendly, although service was on the slower side.

    We came here on a Sunday before a matinee at the Hoogland -- full of hope, hungry, and maybe a…read morelittle too optimistic. The building is beautiful, the location is perfect, and we thought, "Hey, maybe those bad reviews were just people having a bad day." Spoiler alert: they were not. Service started strong. We were seated right away, and they even brought coloring pages for our kids -- a nice touch that gave us false hope. Then the food arrived, and it was like watching a plot twist in a bad movie. I ordered the Buffalo Chicken Pony Shoe. It came out looking like someone microwaved a bag of frozen chicken tenders and tossed them in buffalo sauce for moral support. The cheese sauce might have been homemade -- it was grainy enough to make me believe someone whisked it themselves -- but there was barely any. Also, who hides the cheese under the fries? That's the star of the show! I had to beg for more, and even then it arrived lukewarm, much like my excitement for the meal. My wife ordered the Pork Schnitzel with "spaetzle." Except it wasn't schnitzel; it was a pork cutlet that had clearly seen the inside of a freezer longer than most people's leftovers. And the "spaetzle"? Nope. Straight-up spaghetti noodles. The mushroom sauce tasted like it came straight from a can labeled Cream of Disappointment. Two of the kids got cheese pizza -- or as I like to call it, "Frozen Circle of Regret." My son's "chips" were somehow both soggy and chewy, a texture I didn't even know existed. Frying them until they're crunchy shouldn't be rocket science, but here we are. Everything was bland, flavorless, and missing any sign of seasoning. The best dish of the entire meal? My daughter's burger on her Pony Shoe -- mostly because it resembled real food. And just to add a little flair, nearly every plate was dusted with dried parsley. Because, of course, nothing says fine dining like sprinkling dried parsley on frozen food. This place has serious potential -- it's got the space, the charm, and the perfect downtown vibe. But if your secret ingredient is "frozen," no amount of parsley is going to save you.

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    Rudi's Grill - tradamerican - Updated May 2026

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