Tiny restaurant in Robinson, Illinois, down in a neighborhood, at 710 South Cross Street. Two…read moreAmish ladies are serving outstanding freshly made home cooking, buffet style. The fried chicken is plump, juicy, and fork tender. My husband had seconds on the meatloaf and he's not a big eater! Mashed potatoes are REAL mashed potatoes, and how do you make green beans so delicious? They also offered spaghetti, carrots, salads, and desserts but we filled up and couldn't eat anything else. Excellent food, we highly recommend.

Tried their famous 1-lb. pork chop and catfish dinner to go. So delicious with generous portions…read more.. we managed to have 2 meals out of our order! Pleasant and friendly staff. Charming restaurant and cozy front lobby. The giant pitchfork is perched right outside the front door! They also have a beautiful garden with a small pond where you could enjoy the lovely flowers and the surrounding farm. Will definitely come back on our next visit to Casey!

This was our first visit to Richard's Farm Restaurant. But for us it will be a one and done. The…read morerestaurant smelt musty and old because it is filled with antiques. And the old carpet just holds that smell. The restaurant was on the expensive side. The lunch specials started at $14.50. The cheapest sandwich was $15.99 and comes with one side. They offered a salad bar for $16.99 The hot bar was $18.79. Kids meals were all $9.99. I went with the hot bar because it had fried chicken on it. There were 4 different soups to choose from and all of the normal salad bar items. The pickled beets were really good. The skin of the fried chicken was soft from being in the steam table. Nothing crunchy left. Our waitress was very friendly and checked on a few times. Lunch for 3 adults and a kid was $70 plus tip.

Food is always delicious, fresh, and piping hot. Staff is friendly. Restaurant is clean and well…read moremaintained.

The food is mediocre, not a very large selection and quite often not exactly warm. And with the…read morebuffet, you only get one dessert. They don't really clean the tables between trips to the buffet so you have a table full of dishes to deal with. It is very expensive. My wife and I paid $60 for mediocre food and only allowed one dessert per. Not worth it.

Took my beloved grandmother here for dinner this past winter. Grandma/grandson date. I imagined…read morewith a buffet, we could all find something to eat. Usual rural Illinois buffet, fried animals, green beans, sweet potato with marshmallows on top, unsightly casserole things. Need I continue? I was happy to find that most of it was marginally edible; not always the case at a buffet. But, on the noseguard was this sign posted in several locations: "You are welcome to eat as much as you like, but please eat everything you take. We will be forced to raise prices if food is thrown away," (not verbatim). I was able to stomach the chicken, but I got to the veggies, and they were bad. One of those things that looks ok, but really isn't once it's in the mouth. But, I would have felt guilty if I didn't clean my plate. I'd be responsible for raising everyone's prices! And they might be WATCHING ME! So, I forced it down. Old fashioned guilt buffet. Granny and I did have some ice cream, and, quite frankly, even though the weather was -12, ice cream was the only thing either of us cared about anyway. Finally, the buffet was reasonably priced. I think we paid $9 each.

I dont think a place like this would survive in a big city where there is competition but it…read moresurvives fine in a small rural area like this.the food is generally good nothing great , its fine in the summer but is quite chilly in the winter, I cant image it costs much to heat a small place like this, the tables arent the cleanest because the dish rag they use to clean the tables with are dirtier than the table, so they dont as much as clean the table as just rearrange the grease.there is about 10 different plate styles and many of the cups and plates are chipped .the biggest problem is the closing hour changes from day to day depending how the owner feels that day.

I eat there once or twice a week. the food is very good, the place is very clean, including the…read morerestrooms. The owners and their employees are very courteous and friendly.

People here seem to love this restaurant but I was disappointed our only visit because the chicken…read morein my selection was mushy. The nice waiter offered to bring me a different one but the chicken was only slightly better. The vegetables were beautiful, perhaps I should try again with just vegetables.

Great selection. We almost always get the buffet. Get the chicken...Fridays have fish n shrimp…read more Great corn nuggets. Rice pudding is an occasional delight. Salad bar is awesome. Dessert bar is memorable - bread pudding and scotcheroos for the win. Their pirs are phenomenal. Don't m9ss the baked goods in the shop. Angel food cakes are divine. Great service. Nice, clean place.

7-17-26 We stopped in for breakfast buffet. It was our first…read moretime visiting. Had a nice breakfast, brought home some hand pies. Can't wait to return sometime soon. Server was awesome.

I have been here multiple times now, and not once have I been disappointed! Food is delicious each…read moretime, the ribs are a personal favorite of my son and I. Service is always extremely nice and the place is always busy, which tells you the most important thing, people love it!

This is by far the best country buffet style food in town. The service is great. The food is made…read morefresh throughout the day and homemade their desserts are homemade. Most everything is made from scratch the candy made. They have great cobbler. The fried chicken is by far the best in town. The staff is very friendly and professional and really cares about the customers. The dining room looks like an inside of a cabin, which makes one neat decoration and the dining room was always clean and pony.

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!

Passed through Effingham IL again and decided to commence my 30 minutes + off duty break here…read more Low-Key truck stop next door to Niemerg's Steakhouse is the Speedway; the startegy is park your rig there and walk over to this landmark. Haven't not been inside this restaurant ever, i kept an open mind I didn't know what to expect. Theres apparently three dine in area options. You have a whiskey, bar lounge that probably the likes of General MacArthur would patronize for food and cigars like at the Historical Manila Hotel in Manila Philippines. Then you have the open dining room where you seat yourself and it was reminiscent to an Army Chow Hall...sort of with retro 80s decor. And lastly, I chose the Salad Bar room with a booth seating. Server Jessica was fantastic! Went through the standard protocols with me; I was really enjoying the vibes at this place. It's very Mahogany, 1960s - 1980s feeling, almost like that steakhouse Warren Buffet likes to go to in Omaha Nebraska. Very community family oriented, quiet, really quite different than any restaurant or diner you patronize in a city like Los Angeles. A lot of retired folk here and truly, you feel like you been thrown back in time to the 80s and early 90s in some sense. So anyways on to the food. I'm going to state my opinion straight up, the salad bar hot food bar is the star of the show. In fact everything from the soup to the oven potatoes to the COLESLAW (Best Coleslaw Ever), reminded me of that once upon a time Soup Plantation that died during Covid....and the best part is the Cold and hot bar is all-inclusive with your main entree order. Yes you heard that right, you buy the resort tickets, and you enjoy your stay with unlimited cocktails at Cancun...I mean Neimergs... Now to the Iowa Premium Rib Eye Steak. To the kitchen staff: 2 minutes on the top side, 2 minutes on the bottom side. Bake in oven 1 minute on both sides. Done. Medium Rare. A perfectly good steak was destroyed because it came out well done. To future passerbys, skip the baked potato loaded if you decide to dine in at the hot and cold bar room. Last thoughts. I want to give the steak a 3 stars but the overall ambiance, the grandpappy grandma vibes and that overall feel like your dining at someone's home in farm country really elevated the entire experience. Plus the servers are all working their tails off. So I've rated this place a 4 stars. Think anyone on a road trip, or just driving their rig through town should give this historical site a visit. 1978 right? Or something like that. This place also has some of the freshest greens.

The food was fresh, the price was reasonable, everything was clean, and the service was friendly!read more

All the food was room temp. We went between 3:30 and 4. Nothing was hot. We all had different…read moreentrees and everyone's food was cold. We did not eat very much afraid we would get sick. A lot of spills and messes at all the food stations. Never eat here again.