Washington Family Restaurant

Khoury's is an amazing restaurant with everything made fresh to order, including the hummus! The…read moregarlic chicken wrap was equally flavourful. The owner is a very nice man and he's been making delicious food for 30 years at this venue. Portions are large and you may have leftovers.

Incredible, high quality food made with love. Had such an amazing experience with the staff and the…read moreowner, and look forward to coming back.

Indoor seating

Super gyro

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Kep's Sports Bar & Grill

3.7(70 reviews)

0.4 mi

If I lived nearby I might eat here weekly. The restaurant is big, service attentive, food really…read moregood, portions large enough to share, prices reasonable. We were passing thru. We've been here before so I made it our destination for lunch. Tried and true. No reason to change. Four of us were dining. Keps burger with American cheese, bacon, fried egg and onion. Huge and served with fries. Rated 5 stars. Chicken quesadilla 3 stars. It was average it taste. But extremely large. Huge value. Can serve 4. Chips and salsa nothing special Grilled cheese five plus stars. The very best grilled cheese I've had. It comes with fries or frips. Frips are potato chips. Homemade and delicious. Drinks are reasonably priced. Service was really good and attentive.

Good place to watch sporting event. Highly recommend ditching the tiny styrofoam plates served with…read morethe pizza. Also recommend using fresh mushrooms on pizza.

General shot of the dining area

And they say they are the same size...

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Thin-Crust Pizza

Sheryl’s Cafe

4.1(16 reviews)

4.3 mi

Great fresh food and Great service! Every time! Breakfast,Lunch and Dinner. Eat there several times…read morea week. Enjoy!

Just a great lunch spot.. clean.. good menu.. helpful staff..tasty food…read more.. Hope they have cheeseburger soup the day you visit, it was phenomenal. Want a taste of home.. breakfast or lunch stop by and supper, too.

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Brickhouse BBQ, Burgers & Brews

3.4(52 reviews)

1.2 mi

Hallie was an awesome waitstaff!…read more The sweet potato fries were the best I have had in my entire life! I had the brickhouse burger and my buddy got the tenderloin- both delicious. Can't wait to return....

I may be biased because this is not the type of food that I normally would gravitate towards, but…read moreour party wanted to go here. I ordered the grilled chicken sandwich, and it was decent. The burnt ends were the highlight of the meal. The service was friendly, but I personally wouldn't rush back.

Burnt Ends

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Porky

Fillin Station

4.1(30 reviews)

3.6 mi

One word: N A S T Y. Do NOT eat here. It looked promising…read moreat first when it was just down the street from the laundromat where we were finishing laundry. It looked promising when we walked in and the decor was so cute with license plates and stoplights. It looked promising when the wait staff were very nice and delivered an extensive menu. That's where promising ended. I ordered mozzarella sticks with marinara, a dinner salad and a side of cottage cheese. Pretty simple, right? The waitress asked what I wanted on the salad??? I said hard boiled egg, tomatoes, cucumber, whatever vegetables they had. She sort of shook her head as if she did not know what veggies they had. I ordered a side of blue cheese dressing. Mother in law ordered a grilled chicken salad. Mozzarella sticks took 25 minutes? I actually had to leave to get our laundry caus we were waiting so long. Came back to lukewarm NASTY mozzarella sticks that we did not finish. The marinara was underwhelming and warmer than the cheese sticks. Gross. Then we wait another 10-15 minutes wondering where the heck our simple salads are. The staff would not make eye contact. We kept looking for someone who would check our order and gave up. Finally after 45 min of waiting we get our "salads" YUCK. Mine we the tiniest bowl of white / pale green iceberg lettuce. A piece of white onion. A small plastic container of dressing sat on top of the sad lettuce. THAT WAS IT. Where are the vegetables I asked for? I look at the salad my MIL got and THERE was my hard boiled egg. There were the chopped vegetables. Luckily she offered to share her egg and vegetables with me. My salad was NASTY. She did not like hers, it was covered in melted cheese. Only reason I gave it two stars instead of one is because the waitresses were very nice. It wasn't their fault the kitchen staff can't make salad.

GREASY! We were really disappointed with our breakfast here. It was the only sit-down breakfast on…read morea Sunday AM. The building is dated and cluttered with memorabilia on the walls. The service and food arrival was lighting fast, which is a tell tale sign of poor food. The omelet we got was swimming in grease/oil. It was mostly cheese and had very little else. The coffee is unremarkable. My scramble eggs were unseasoned and not fluffy. Skip this joint if you can.

Amazing inside

This is a dinner salad???? I asked for egg and tomatoes. Nothing but white iceberg lettuce yuck!

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Lunch menu

Parish's Pub

5.0(3 reviews)

1.0 mi

the bartender was nice and attentive! Butch's pizza and beer were a 10 out of 10! Lots of games…read moreinside and gives a good vibe!

There is not a modicum of sense in assigning a numerical score to a bar like this. Washington has 5…read moremain bars that I can think of off the top of my head, and which one is best will be contingent upon your socioeconomic status and existential demeanor. Small rural towns in the Midwestern US are generally wastelands in a tangible sense, that goes without saying; but there exists a more abstract sense of desolation that tends to swallow one whole if a little too much time is spent in a town so bereft of anything that could reasonably be called cultural. Disgruntled, romantically hopeless drunks like me are often inaccurately characterized as decrepit, amoral, underachieving dregs of society that have no need for anything but themselves and the bottle. Pretty much accurate, but my main point of contention with this portrait lies in the blatant falseness of the last bit. Drunks like us, we need people. We need a place to go to drink with jaded folks facing the same eternal war on tedium and disappointment that is living in a town like Washington, IL. Drunks like us, we don't go to the bar necessarily to have a good time. We go because if we're given nothing but free time in the glorified solitary confinement that is one's living quarters, we'll lose our fucking minds. The main directive of this site is completely worthless when it comes to assessing local watering holes like Parish's. If I was a random visitor, I would visit it and be thoroughly unimpressed. You probably have a bar exactly like this in your hometown, and you love it for two reasons: the staff and the regulars. Over time, you foster a relationship with the two that ensures that if you're down on your luck and have fuck all to do with your night off, you can always head down and avoid staring at your bedroom wall until you pass out. How many times have I seen two people unsuccessfully hustle me and proceed to copulate on a pool table while the couple thought everyone was outside? Once, but that's still enough to prove a point. How many times have I been inundated with whisky-drenched tales from the past of smuggling pounds of cocaine around state lines from guys with 7+ DUIs? More than I can count. Dive bars are ideal temporary residences for drunks like me because it's a way to playfully repel the malaise of untapped potential that forces one to be a glorified automaton in a small, boring town by letting the id take over and run its course. Then of course, there's the staff. Dive bar lore is rife with stupid, inaccurate adages suggesting things along the lines of a loyal bartender being better than any therapist you could hire. That's bullshit almost 100% of the time; often they're simply nodding in agreement and allowing your bleating to go in one ear and out the other. That isn't the case here. Rick is a true lifer in the greatest sense of the word and will bend over backwards to help out the loyal regulars. Lord knows he's done it for me countless times. Dani refuses to take my tips because she knows I'm perpetually broke, has gone out of her way to feed me because she knows I rarely eat, and has, along with her husband David, a Thursday regular, taken an active interest in my problems far beyond empty regurgitation. They informally "adopted" my brother and me, because, in their own words, "you guys are exactly what I'd like our children to grow up to be like." Last Thanksgiving, when I texted her asking if the bar would be open, she responded that they would not and asked if I had a place to go for dinner. I had to work. Sure enough, she shows up with a massive plate of food and a bottle of whisky. If you haven't noticed already, I deeply love this nondescript, forgettable-to-outsiders bar. Not in the pedestrian manner that stupid fucking Toby Keith song celebrates. Drunks like us, we don't go to our local dives to celebrate temporary egalitarianism and yee-haw Saturday nights as a fun little break from our everyday life. We go to our local dives because without them, we'd have no other place to wallow in the utter senselessness of living in a town like Washington without losing our minds.

Inside recently completed remodeling

Play a few games of pool and darts in the completed remodeled game room

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Enjoy a friendly game of shuffleboard

Evergreen Farm Brewing

4.5(12 reviews)

4.3 mi

In the middle of nowhere is a brewery that serves a delicious honey beer! They also have games to…read moreentertain both young and old. There is live music and good vibes galore. It is very busy on the weekend, it and seems to be a local hangout.

Checked out this in the middle of nowhere brewery. Evergreen Farm actually is just outside of…read moreMetamora. It gives people a reason to come out to this pretty boring town. A lot go by and can't believe it's actually here. Trust the map apps and pull in for a few pints. Basically this is as micro as a microbrewery can get. It's pretty much run out of someone's shed. The farm is how this place gets its name, and there's a few interesting artifacts, such as equipment lying around and hanging up on the walls. As expected they only have a few beers. It's about $7 a pint. Best one we had was the Broken Spoke, which is an American pale ale. It's about $5 for pretzels. Cool thing is these are made with actual spent grains. The seating is limited but they have a patio with a few tables. For sure it's a place we would come to again. It's got pretty limited hours only being open Fridays to Sundays. This means the best time to go is weekends.

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Sunset after a winter storm.

Buttermilk Café Germantown Hills

4.1(27 reviews)

4.8 mi

It is a shame the cafe is overall rated at a 4.1. Not my experience. 5 star all the way…read more It's not fancy but is very Clean. Amazing service they even come by and ask if everything is right. Hmm. Great product coming out of that kitchen. Bravo Buttermilk Cafe Bravo.

Buttermilk Café has terrific food and warm hometown service which is always welcome! Most of the…read moretime I call and order various breakfasts and 20 to 30 minutes later some of the best breakfast foods that's ever come out of Germantown Hills is ready for pick up! If you haven't found this tiny restaurant, I suggest you look them up on the Internet and give them a try! They won't disappoint!

Prices went up a little.

Side of bacon

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Two egg special

Palanza's Family Dining

3.9(23 reviews)

3.8 mi

Great hole in the wall type place. We got an appetizer of the Mozzarella Sticks and wow they were…read moreso good, super stringy cheese I almost choked. Got a salad to start and I was kind of disappointed, lettuce wasn't super fresh and it was very watery. For the main dish I got the baked tortellini, very good although I thought there could have been a little bit more sauce. Service was top notch! Will come back as our family loves coming here.

Review Visit: December 29th, 2015…read more Palanza's was Plainza's. Palanza's seems to be well-regarded among people I know from the Washington area. With that in mind, I went with a group of friends to try it out one evening. We came. We ate. We left reeking of grease. That just about sums up my experience there. We showed up for dinner and tried a variety of things. We all ordered something different and shared some appetizers. What we all picked off the menu was lost to time. But I do remember chomping down my food and having to tell my mouth that there was indeed some food being consumed since there wasn't much flavor in my sandwich. I can't speak for my friends and I know asking them about their experience today would lead to a lot of "I don't remember"s. So, I am going to chalk it up to maybe having an off day there, either on my behalf or the chefs behalf. Either way, I won't forget the stench of my coat after we left. As soon as we got in my car to leave (it was just Tim and I in my car), I could instantly smell the reek of grease on my coat. It was fairly strong and made me gag a bit as I was taking Tim home. Once I got home, I instantly put my coat in the hamper for immediate cleaning. It's amazing that I don't remember what sandwich I ordered but the heavy grease smell on my coat is a memory that is clear as day. Second chances are something I believe in. I am willing to give Palanza's another go should the opportunity arise.

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Faire Coffee

4.3(11 reviews)

1.0 mi

Very festive and beautiful inside. Super neat that the coffee is kept in a vault since the building…read morewas previously a bank. Lots of unique drink options, scones, and muffins. The building goes way back there's room for groups or individuals to work. Parking options in front of the establishment. It does have stairs so it is not ideal for wheelchair or strollers. Large bathrooms with a changing table. Service was excellent and will be back when we're visiting the area!

The staff were very friendly and kind. There was a long line and more online orders coming in and…read morethey kept their composure under pressure. The pastry I had was Devine. The coffee was made to perfection. It has a lovely atmosphere.

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Jim J.

12 years ago

I wouldn't eat here if it was the last place on earth. Ordered a burger it was a frozen patty and was cold. Fries smelled like they was cooked in oil from a car. Service was good and wait staff was friendly. Talked to the owner and he was a total jerk even cussed at me in front of my wife. I would not eat here it seems as though the owner has no respect for people and their opinions.Update as of 3/31/2014 Owner calls me tonight and threatens me to take this down or else he will call a attorney and have me arrested for entering his house illegally. He forget to mention he locked me in his basement while I was painting. read more

William S.

5 years ago

My first visit and my wife's second. We ordered the friend chicken meal and waited an expected 30 minutes or a dish of this nature to prepare. Unfortunately the chicken was completely over done and it's my first experience having completely dry fried chicken. It was literally fried to death and inedible. Our meal included a side salad, veggie of the day and a potato. I chose mashed with brown gravy and my spouse went with hash browns. Our green beans were stone cold and while my ice cream scoop of potato's were warm the gravy on top was ice cold. Won't return. read more

Greg V.

13 years ago

best breakfast in the area...love coming in with the entire family on the weekends. Swedish pancakes are incredible!

Ja A.

7 years ago

Washington Family Restaurant is a great place for a nice family breakfast. Me and my family always enjoy it!

Michael R.

574

8 years ago

Terrible! Extremely low quality food for what you are paying. The owner also abuses his female staff....

Linda V.

2 years ago

Great food always! Don't get the chance to eat out often but this is a good place to go

Mike B.

14 years ago

Good food, good service, fair price

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