5-10 mins from I57. Make the drive. Please skip the chains…read more So it's a 5... not because it's fancy. Not because it has 100in TVs or because of fancy, hip burgers. It's a 5 because it's what a bar and grill should be. Or used to be back in the day. Meaning before 1990. Popcorn machine with various seasonings to choose. Pool table. Good size table and booth area. Plus huge bar with comfy seats and angled elbow rests. Now.. they have various good size TVs on the wall and what is fun is basically 13-19" TVs above the bar. But this is a place you go to hang out and talk with friends not be glued to a TV. Ok the food. Tried the wings since on Wednesday they are 75 cents. Which is a DEAL!! They also have $2 domestic cans. I mean.. that's crazy! And appreciated in this day and age. (Oh and all drafts come in frosted 12oz mugs.) The wings.. tried garlic parm. Little heavy on the parm. Could use a little more butter/garlic. But solid!! Then tried the medium buffalo. This is what Buffalo should be! Buttery, salty, hint of vinegar.. just a solid sauce!! Oh and home made ranch. Was good as well. This is one of my new favorite old school tavern.

Have always enjoyed spankys, their wings are the best, and try the tacos, and staff is amazing, and…read moreentertainment in the beer garden. Very clean and always welcoming.

This place is permanently closed! We made a special trip to go to this place because it still…read moreshowed as open on Yelp only to find out it's been closed for over a year.

We came here driving back home from vacation. We are stopping in Casey, IL and this town was the…read moreclosest place with a hotel so I googled restaurants and this had a pretty good rating. Lots of parking (in an old plaza) and staff were friendly. We stopped on a Sunday evening around 6pm. We were seated quickly and drinks, orders and food came out quickly. Food was hot and a we expected. It wasn't the absolute best we've had to say we would drive back just for this restaurant but it was pretty good and we left with full bellies.

Food is Decent Price, a relaxed environment and THE FOOD IS AMAZING!!! The staff is the level of…read morehelpful without being overbearing.

Absolutely the very best Fish Tacos anywhere in the central Illinois area. Service is great and…read moreselection of food is great. Always fresh and delicious. You have to try the chicken strips Jerry's style. Yum.

Hey, again, faithful review readers!…read more So, today, we are dining at Alamo Steak House here in Mattoon, IL. We live in a small town area and this is definitely a local favorite for many in the area, us included. This is to say that the experience, the food and drink is consistently very well done. As we pulled up, the parking lot was JAMMED! It was so crowded there was only about two spots available. Wifey told me to check the wait time. So, we went in. No wait!!! It appears that everyone drove separately. The hostess was very pleasant. We had her switch our table because we like the tables vs. the booth. Today we sat in the upstairs balcony. We've sat here once before a few years ago. Pleasant. More cozy than the common dining room. Our server was very prompt, and since we come here enough, we knew what we wanted. I got the smothered chicken with a sidecar porkchop (just because I can). Sides of House Salad and Onion Rings. Wifey ordered the distiller, baked potato and a salad. For the first time ever, the dinner rolls at the table were actually overdone. It's usually crisp outside and soft inside, but this was actually way too hard. Wifey likes things well done and she said this is just not edible. This could have been easily remedied, but we did not want more so we left it be. But this was the first time this has ever been an issue in 13 years. Salads came out first. I had ordered a house salad with blue cheese but got a Caesar salad. Lots of Parmesan, good presentation. I decided I was meant to have a Caesar salad and was glad this mix up occurred. Wifey had a house salad and it was good, but she was eyeing up my Caesar with those thieving eyes! So we will call it a happy accident! Shlafly's makes a competent stout, a little hoppier than you'd expect from a stout, a little spritzier than you're used to in a stout, but I knew this going in. It's a solid brew, but not creamy like most stouts. Wifey's raspberry margarita was, good, according to her, but a little sweet. She squeezed in some lemon and lime and that helped add more tart which pleased her. She does not usually get non citrus based Margaritas, so she chalked it up to that. Again, the drink was still good, just not her favorite. A little long in the main course delivery, but, wifey had a medium well steak and that takes some time. However, it seems to be taking much longer than expected... The food DID show up, just before it became a seriously long wait. My food: Most things were not quite hot enough. All the flavors were great, but, it feels like the food was under a heat lamp that didn't work for too long, or maybe not under it for too long of a time.. At a steakhouse as "high quality" as this one, I expected better. Since our server was uber busy, we didn't voice our complaint. He was truly running hard up and down the stairs so we have no complaints with his service. But we are both disappointed that it was very not hot. And we were hungry, and the flavors were good, so we chose to eat it as is. Wifey said all the flavors of her steak and potato were on point but admittedly the not hot part took its toll on the overall. We are sad to report all of these very unusual mishaps but we really still swear by the place for the great food and for the many, many experiences that were consistently on point. We also know if we would have complained or asked it would have been fixed no holds barred. But it was pretty busy and we did not want to wait. So if one experience out of maybe 50 was a bit sub par, we are still going to consider it a winner and well worth looking past. It just seems everything happened at once. So hopefully we are all good for another 50 visits!

I live in Mattoon and always see a full parking lot. I decided to give it a try since haven't eaten…read morehere in a while. My mistake. I ordered the beer battered cod and my partner the plank salmon. We waited a reasonable time to a bit long for the entrees to be served. The server did come to the table a couple times to tell us it would be out soon. When the food was served the waitress said she would be back to check on our dinner. I looked across the table and from there could see the salmon was way overcooked. My partner took a couple bites and agreed the salmon was overcooked and quite dry. I tried piece one of two of the cod and found it was a bit greasy with an over abundance of breading but tasted OK. When the server came to check on the food my partner told her the salmon was overcooked. She replied "sorry, I'll tell them" and left. We expected someone to come to the table and offer a redo or substitution but *surprise* no one and nothing happened. I thought my dinner was going to be OK until I tried the second piece of fish. It was tough and rubbery. The server finally came back to the table and asked if we wanted dessert without mentioning anything about the overcooked salmon. By this time we were so disappointed with the experience we didn't want to take a chance on a bad a dessert. In closing let me just make a couple points: 1) when food and service are good I willingly pay a good price for it 2) when food and service are not good I expect for the establishment to make it right by replacing the food or discounting the price - Neither happened! In this instance it was a $60 lesson. Needlessly to say I will not go back!

We stopped in on our 10hr drive back to Chicago. It was a great break from all the driving. We were…read morelooking for a place that had a little bit of everything to satisfy 2 adults and 4 kids. Everything we ordered was great and the service was excellent.

Had a great experience at Honeybee! The food was delicious, everything tasted fresh, and the…read moreservice was friendly and welcoming. The atmosphere was cozy and made us feel right at home. Definitely a place we'll be coming back to!

I waited an hour for a water and almost 2 hours for my food. Do better Angelo's. Staff seemed…read moreoverwhelmed, and nobody updated us or apologized all evening. At all!!!

Good food and good service. staff are very very friendly !! I love their yummy pizza sauceread more

We love it there every time we go, pizza is always amazing and served with salad, very clean, food…read morewas very, very slow coming out for just us ordering a pizza and salad and drinks, waitress hardly checked on us or kept us up dated on our pizza, it was almost an hour when we finally received it, it wasn't too busy so didn't know what the hold up was but food very good, updates need to be a little more and checked on for refills. Decor simple and light.

It took them an hour to realize they forgot my pizza. They did not refill my drink until an hour…read moreand half later when they brought the pizza they finally made. I tipped them and management did not come to the table at all. They were dead when we walked in and they did zero to compensate or apologize. Save your money on this overpriced pizza.

Great Sausage, pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Also, they have a routine machines if you want to…read morecontrol the ambiance.

I used to always like villas food and service but tonight I ordered Alfredo and a salad to be…read moredelivered I was hung up on had to call back I was on hold longer than it took to order my meal after a hr I called to see where my meal was and of course had to wait on hold again before I could even speak my food finally arrived after a hr and a half after ordering and was cold the person that took was order was snotty the guy who delivered my meal was a nice guy handed me my food and opened my door for me since my hands was full and I was waiting outside for it to come I used to eat here a lot in the late early 90s and service never used to be this bad I don't know if it was a bad day or what but I was not happy with my service