Had dinner here the other night with a friend. The prices were reasonable. The set up is your very family friendly setting and very casual, and classic. The staff was all very friendly and helpful. The menu has a pretty great selection but also very simple (in a great way). The burger was delicious! The rootbeer in a frosty mug really hit the spot. Ended up even taking two gallons of rootbeer home. I definitely recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
sj mbring
What a find! If you are traveling on Highway 39 past Olgesby, IL, and you are hungry, this is the place to stop. It is just a short way off the expressway and SO MUCH BETTER than your typical fast food place. Food is homemade, very reasonable, and nostalgic. The staff is super friendly and the place is filled with locals, since they all know how good it is. Who doesn’t want a tasty cheeseburger and a root bear float?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Caitlin Lee
Cute drive-up spot! Came here with our dog after a hike. They make their own root beer and bring the food to your car. Places like this are special!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Bob Novak
Great place
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dave Lunning
Restaurant wasn't busy on a Friday night. After being in the car for nearly 4 hours we decided to eat in. Service was ok and provided by local teens. Food was good. Had high hopes for the rootbeer. It had a slightly different taste than I was used to...possibly more of a vanilla flavor....and didn't have much fizz.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Alice Decker
First time eating here my food was cold no meat in my taco salad nuggets hard as rock fries over cooked very very disappointed I had high expectations of this place and paid 36$no sour cream no salsa very very upset
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 3
Father of Four
5 stars Homemade rootbeer Great service Great food . Don't forget the ice cream
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ray Doss
I was mis-informed. this is not a chicago dog. ordered one with everything. it was a chicken dog they even put ketchup on it. 🤢🤮🤑🤢
Hubby & I have never met a root beer stand we didn’t like… until THIS place! It was DISGUSTING! Food was the worst. “Salad” was inedible, and also not a salad… Just a tablespoon of decaying shredded lettuce in a tiny styrofoam cup. Not even as big as a small coffee cup! Fries tasted like rancid grease and were in pieces… not whole fries. Looked like they’d just scraped up all the fries no one ate and run them through the fryer again. Burgers had no seasoning and meat was gray. Root beer tasted like cream soda and was served at room temp in a WARM mug, not frosted like the menu said. Literally nothing we ordered here looked or tasted even marginally decent. The place was filthy. Service was abysmal. Our waitress… something was seriously wrong with her. Not good at her job in any way. Literally never smiled. Barely grunted. Lacked basic manners. Got our order wrong three ways.
But the truly gross part of this nightmare came as I was leaving the restroom (down a very narrow hallway)… An old lady customer with a walker & her teenage helper literally forced me to back up, into the restroom WITH THEM rather than waiting five second for me to get out of their way. Then a random male came in to help them… Then our waitress came in as well. There were FIVE of us (including one man) in their dinky little woman’s bathroom! Finally, with the old lady continuing to push me backwards against the sink and her helpers already trying to talk her through sitting on the toilet right in front of me, I decided there was NO WAY I was staying in there while the old lady dropped her drawers! And YES they were trying to talk her through doing that in front of me… with help from the waitress! NO WAY! I pushed past all of them to get out of there! In the process, I accidentally bumped into the waitress who finally managed to get out a word I could actually understand. She called ME rude. I think RUDE is forcing ME into a bathroom full of random people I don’t know and exposing me to the trauma of having to watch them try to get an old woman I never saw before go potty right in front of me. I mean… that’s not what I want to experience EVER… but especially not in a place where people go to EAT.
If it had just been the old lady and her two helpers, ok… that’s not the restaurant’s fault... but when my waitress got involved… That’s 100% on the restaurant! I feel like they should’ve had to pay ME for putting me through that! Which reminds me… it’s cash only as well. What. A. Total. Dump. Not nostalgic. Just old & disgusting.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
William Thomson
Cold french fries near raw and drenched in oil. Grey hambuger cold and came with only a bun and burger. We asked for everything. Root beer came with the ice melted so the drink was warm and almost like water. The malt was to have extra malt however just a bland watery drink. I f we lived far it would make sense but we live 8 minutes away.
Had dinner here the other night with a friend. The prices were reasonable. The set up is your very family friendly setting and very casual, and classic. The staff was all very friendly and helpful. The menu has a pretty great selection but also very simple (in a great way). The burger was delicious! The rootbeer in a frosty mug really hit the spot. Ended up even taking two gallons of rootbeer home. I definitely recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
What a find! If you are traveling on Highway 39 past Olgesby, IL, and you are hungry, this is the place to stop. It is just a short way off the expressway and SO MUCH BETTER than your typical fast food place. Food is homemade, very reasonable, and nostalgic. The staff is super friendly and the place is filled with locals, since they all know how good it is. Who doesn’t want a tasty cheeseburger and a root bear float?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Cute drive-up spot! Came here with our dog after a hike. They make their own root beer and bring the food to your car. Places like this are special!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Great place
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurant wasn't busy on a Friday night. After being in the car for nearly 4 hours we decided to eat in. Service was ok and provided by local teens. Food was good. Had high hopes for the rootbeer. It had a slightly different taste than I was used to...possibly more of a vanilla flavor....and didn't have much fizz.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
First time eating here my food was cold no meat in my taco salad nuggets hard as rock fries over cooked very very disappointed I had high expectations of this place and paid 36$no sour cream no salsa very very upset
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 3
5 stars Homemade rootbeer Great service Great food . Don't forget the ice cream
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I was mis-informed. this is not a chicago dog. ordered one with everything. it was a chicken dog they even put ketchup on it. 🤢🤮🤑🤢
Booth seating & table service.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Delicious root beer floats
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Good little spot to get some burgers and rootbeer
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
All around good place to find good cheap food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food was amazing. My son loved the root beer
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Hubby & I have never met a root beer stand we didn’t like… until THIS place! It was DISGUSTING! Food was the worst. “Salad” was inedible, and also not a salad… Just a tablespoon of decaying shredded lettuce in a tiny styrofoam cup. Not even as big as a small coffee cup! Fries tasted like rancid grease and were in pieces… not whole fries. Looked like they’d just scraped up all the fries no one ate and run them through the fryer again. Burgers had no seasoning and meat was gray. Root beer tasted like cream soda and was served at room temp in a WARM mug, not frosted like the menu said. Literally nothing we ordered here looked or tasted even marginally decent. The place was filthy. Service was abysmal. Our waitress… something was seriously wrong with her. Not good at her job in any way. Literally never smiled. Barely grunted. Lacked basic manners. Got our order wrong three ways.
But the truly gross part of this nightmare came as I was leaving the restroom (down a very narrow hallway)… An old lady customer with a walker & her teenage helper literally forced me to back up, into the restroom WITH THEM rather than waiting five second for me to get out of their way. Then a random male came in to help them… Then our waitress came in as well. There were FIVE of us (including one man) in their dinky little woman’s bathroom! Finally, with the old lady continuing to push me backwards against the sink and her helpers already trying to talk her through sitting on the toilet right in front of me, I decided there was NO WAY I was staying in there while the old lady dropped her drawers! And YES they were trying to talk her through doing that in front of me… with help from the waitress! NO WAY! I pushed past all of them to get out of there! In the process, I accidentally bumped into the waitress who finally managed to get out a word I could actually understand. She called ME rude. I think RUDE is forcing ME into a bathroom full of random people I don’t know and exposing me to the trauma of having to watch them try to get an old woman I never saw before go potty right in front of me. I mean… that’s not what I want to experience EVER… but especially not in a place where people go to EAT.
If it had just been the old lady and her two helpers, ok… that’s not the restaurant’s fault... but when my waitress got involved… That’s 100% on the restaurant! I feel like they should’ve had to pay ME for putting me through that! Which reminds me… it’s cash only as well. What. A. Total. Dump. Not nostalgic. Just old & disgusting.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Cold french fries near raw and drenched in oil. Grey hambuger cold and came with only a bun and burger. We asked for everything. Root beer came with the ice melted so the drink was warm and almost like water. The malt was to have extra malt however just a bland watery drink. I f we lived far it would make sense but we live 8 minutes away.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
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