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Illinois Valley Restaurant Guide Fall 2020

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JJ’S SPORTS PUB & GRILL Tuesdays Salad BEaat”r $ 50 “All You Can 2 d Soup & Sala

Burgers

8 Thursdays $ 00 W dnesdays We 6 after 5:00PM with purchase of beverag e

$ 50

Cheap Chicken

Tenderloin Basket

4 1/4 Dark $ 95 59 1/4 Light

50¢ Wings

$ 9 95

after 5:00PM

after 5:00PM with purchase of beverage

d o o G • s e im T d o o G • s Watch the Game

Food

Sandwiches Appetizers Jeremy’s Favorites Turkey Club Nachos • Pub Chips Cheddar Cubes Popcorn Chicken Onion Rings Monterey Jack Sticks Mozzarella Sticks Cheddar Broccoli Bacon Bits Mini Corn Dogs • Mini Tacos Pretzel Bites Breaded Mushrooms Pickle Fries • Cheese Fries French Fry Basket Sweet Battered Corn Nuggets

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Homemade Italian Beef Philly Steak Sandwich or Wrap 1/4 lb Burger • 1/2 lb. Burger

Chicken

Wings Wi 6 pk $6 | 12 pk $11 | 18pk $16 Sauces: Ranch, Honey Mustard, Marinara, Blue Cheese, BBQ

Monday - Friday 11am-2am Sat 11am-3am • Sun 11am-2am

Grilled Cheese Hot Ham Sandwich Fish Sandwich Garlic Hoagie BLT Italian Sub hot or cold

Breaded Chicken Sandwich Grilled Chicken Sandwich Chicken Strips Chicken bacon Ranch Sandwich or wrap

COME

WATCH ALL THE GAMES! WE HAVE

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SUNDAY TICKET!

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We Are More Than Just Pizza!

PIZZA, PASTA, SUBS, RIBS, GYROS, TACOS, SANDWICHES, APPETIZERS, DESSERTS & MORE. Delivery 11am to 2am - 15 Hours a Day 7 Days a week in a 15 mile radius or call & we’ll meet you!

Delivery Area: Arlington, Bureau, Cedar Point, Cherry, Dalzell, DePue, Dover, Florid, Malden, Granville, Hennepin, Hollowayville, Jonesville, Ladd, LaMoille, LaSalle, Lostant, Magnolia, McNabb, Mark, Mt. Palantine, Oglesby, Ottville, Peru, Princeton, Seatonville, Spring Valley, Standard, Starved Rock, Tonica, Utica, Webster Park

815-663-9081 • 815-664-5422 • 115 West Saint Paul Street • Spring Valley

Dine in, Pick-up or Delivery Open for Lunch & Dinner Locally Owned and Operated by Paul & Mary Breznay

FREE

CHEESEBURGER

2139 N. Main St.

Princeton 800 W. Dakota St.

Spring Valley

with the purchase of a cheeseburger 1503 13th Avenue 2701 E 12th St

Mendota

Coupon required, limit one coupon per customer per visit, not valid with other offers and expires Dec. 15, 2020.

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Save 15% OFF Your Next Order at Nina’s Tacqueria Only with this coupon

845 1ST STREET LASALLE Dine-In / Pick-Up

815-780-8080

Monday - Saturday 11:00am - 8:00pm Sunday 10:30am - 5:00pm

TOSTADOS $3.00 ea.

Include: lettuce, tomato, cheese, onion, jalapeños, sour cream and avocado.

• Asada Steak • Pastor Marinated Pork • Lengua Tongue • Molida Beef • Arrachera Skirt Steak • Cabeza Cow’s Head • Chorizo Mexican Sausage Tostada Dinner 6.99 One Tostada served w/rice and beans

NACHOS Dinner $10.99 Half Order $5.99 Includes: beans, nachos, cheese, lettuce, tomato, jalapeños, sour cream and Your Choice: • Pollo Chicken • Asada Steak Friday, Saturday & Sunday 3 Tamales $8.99

3 Tamales de Puerco con Arroz y Frijoles 3 Pork Tamales with lettuce, pico de Gallo, rice & beans.

Saturday & Sunday Menudo Sm. $6.99 Lg. $8.99 Sunday Caldo de Res Beef Stew

Sm. $6.99 Lg. $8.99

PLATILLOS These dishes are served with rice, beans, tomato, lettuce, onion & chile toreado.

Chuleta de Puerco $12.99 Pork Chop Lomo de Res $12.99 Beef tenderloin Nina’s Plate $13.99 House Special Costilla de Res $13.99 Beef Rib Filete de Pescado A la Plancha $12.99 Grilled Fish Filet Pechuga de Pollo $10.99 Chicken breast With rice, sour cream, tomato, onion, avocado & lettuce.

CHIMICHANGAS $9.99 Served with rice, beans, sour cream, pico de gallo, lettuce and guacamole and topped with nacho cheese

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FLAUTAS $9.99 2 Flautas with rice, beans, guacamole, tomato, sour cream and lettuce Your choice: Chicken or Ground Beef

BURRITOS $7.99 With beans, cheese, tomato, lettuce & sour cream.

• Asada Steak • Pastor Marinated Pork • Lengua Tongue • Pollo Chicken • Molida Beef • Cabeza Cow’s Head • Chorizo Mexican Sausage • ChicharrÓn Cracklings

HAMBURGUESAS Hamburgers Incluye Papas fritas / Includes French fries Cheeseburger $5.99 with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and jalapeños.

Hamburger $5.99 with lettuce, tomato, onion and jalapeños.

Asada Steak Pastor Marinated Pork Lengua Tongue Pollo Chicken Molida Beef Cabeza Cow’s Head Chorizo Mexican Sausage Chicharrón Cracklings

TORTAS $6.99 Include: lettuce, tomato, sour cream, beans, onion, avocado & jalapeños Asada Steak Pastor Marinated Pork Lengua Tongue Pollo Chicken Molida Beef Arrachera Skirt Steak Cabeza Cow’s Head Chorizo Mexican Sausage Chicharrón Cracklings Milaneza Breaded Steak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7.99 • Cubana . . . . . . . . . . . . $7.99 Lettuce, tomato, sour cream, onion, avocado, jalapeños, mustard & ketchup.

Torta Dinner 9.99 One Torta served with rice & beans • • • • • • • • • •

FAJITAS Incluye: Arroz, frijoles, crema, pica de gallo, lechuga y guacamole.

Includes: Rice, beans, sour cream, pico de gallo, lettuce and guacamole.

Extras

TACOS $2.39 Con cilantro y cebolla ó queso, tomate y lechuga.

With cilantro & onions or cheese, tomato & lettuce.

Flour or Corn tortilla Asada Steak Pastor Marinated Pork Pollo Chicken Molina Beef Cabeza Cow’s Head Chorizo Mexican Sausage Chicharrón Cracklings Camarón Shrimp . . . . . . . . . . $2.99 Pescado Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.99 Lengua Tongue . . . . . . . . . . . $2.79 Taco Dinner $9.99 3 Tacos served with rice and beans

QUESADILLAS $7.99 With lettuce, tomato, sour cream, guacamole.

• Asada Steak • Lengua Tongue • Pollo Chicken • Molida Beef • Arrachera Skirt Steak • Pastor Marinated Pork • Cabeza Cow’s Head • Chorizo Mexican Sausage • Chicharrón Cracklings

Quesadilla Dinner $9.99

BEBIDAS Beverages

Fountain Drinks 20 oz. $1.99 includes refill Coke, Sprite, Diet Coke, Zero Coke, Raspberry, Tea & Lemonade Aguas Frescas Md. $1.99 Lg. $2.99 Horchata - Rice Water Jamaica - Hibiscus Water Refrescos de Botella Bottle Sodas Coca Mexicana Sm $1.39 Lg. $1.79 Sangria, Sidral y Jarritos $1.49

Café $1.99 Coffee

Side Orders Guacamole with Chips ...$6.99 Small Guacamole Dip ....... $.75 Papas Fritas French Fries $2.99 Crema Sour Cream ................. $.75 Arroz Rice ................................$1.99 Frijoles Beans ........................$1.99 Cebolitas y Jalapeños .....$1.69

• Asada Steak ..................... $12.99 • Asada Chicken.................. $12.99 • Camarón Shrimp............ $14.99 • Norteña Pollo, Asada y Chorizo ..................................................... $14.99 • Fajitas Nina.................... $15.99 Pollo, Asada Chorizo Cameron

Cervezas - Beers $3.00 Bohemia • Coors Light • Sol Corona • Pacífico • Miller Lite Tecate • XX Equis • Victoria Modelo Especial

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Pork Tenderloins

Bacon Burgers Taco Salads

Our Famous “Frosty Mug” Homemade

Rootbeer

Floats

Frosties

Flurries French Fries

Chicken Salads

Shakes Hot Dogs Sundaes Cheeseburgers Fish

Cheese Stix

“Flavor Burst”

Ice Cream

Chili

Pizza Burgers

Onion Rings

CALL IN FOR CARRY-OUTS OR CAR-HOP SERVICE TO YOUR WHEELS OUTSIDE AT THE DRIVE-IN. OPEN TUESDAY – SATURDAY 10AM-9PM SUNDAY 11AM-9PM • CLOSED MONDAY

225 COLUMBIA AVE. • OGLESBY 815-883-9254 SM-LA1823248

NEW

Created by Our Very Own In-House Chef Daniel!

Chef Daniel’s Special

Grilled chicken and shrimp with sautéed green peppers and mushrooms served over rice. Smothered with cheese sauce and topped with avocado • 14.95

Outdoor Patio!

New! Molcajete Dinner for 2 Grilled chicken and shrimp with sautéed green peppers and mushrooms served over rice. Smothered with cheese sauce and topped with avocado 28.99

SPECIALS

FRIDAY: Shrimp Vegetable Fajitas

Home of the Area’s Best Margaritas

Full Menu SATURDAY: Rib-eye Fajitas Dinner $19.99 Full Menu Mendota, IL 61342

Open 7 Days a Week

Call for reservations, parties & catering www.elzarapemendota.com

M-Th 11am-9pm Fri-Sat 11am-10pm Sun 10am-8pm

815-539-5985

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Monday - Closed Tuesday 7:00am - 3:00pm Wednesday 7:00am - 3:00pm Thursday 7:00am - 3:00pm Friday 7:00am - 4:00pm Saturday 7:00am - 4:00pm Sunday 10:00am - 2:30pm

La Creperie & Bakery

728 1st Street La Salle, IL 61301 (815) 250-0255

Catering & Private Parties Available

Crepes

It’s Pumpkin Time!

Soups

We are now taking preorders for Pumpkin & Pecan Pies for Thanksgiving & Christmas

Sandwiches Specialty Coffees

Take Home a Pie & A Pumpkin Spice Latte

Shortbread Granola Wine Jellies Jams & Preserves Muffins Scones Cream Caramels Star Bread Cookies

Baguette Cinnamon Rolls

Serving Breakfast & Lunch All Day

Online Ordering & Delivery Available www.lilmadcafe.com

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Safety measures restaurants are taking to protect customers Few industries were unaffected by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID19. Perhaps no industry has faced more adversity and greater challenges during the pandemic than the restaurant business. Many restaurants remain closed due to restrictions on indoor dining, while millions more are only allowed to serve patrons willing to eat outdoors or take their food to go.

In anticipation of the challenges posed by reopening restaurants, the National Restaurant Association¨ aimed to provide restaurant operators with information about what to expect as officials relaxed restrictions on in-person dining. That information also was designed to let diners know what to expect as they considered returning to in-person dining at their favorite eateries.

The National Restaurant Association¨ notes that the Food and Drug Administration Food Code has served as a basis for safe food handling for decades, and restaurants continue to adhere to that code. The protocols outlined in the code include guidelines related to sanitation and personal hygiene, which remain highly effective means to combating the spread of COVID19.

In addition to advising restaurants to continue adhering to the FDA Food Code, the National Restaurant Association¨ has provided a detailed and lengthy list of recommendations to restaurant owners designed to make their facilities as safe as possible and ease any concerns customers may have about returning to their facilities.

The following are a handful of those suggestions, and the full list can be downloaded at www.restaurant.org.

be thoroughly and routinely cleaned.  Ensure ventilation systems are operating properly. The National Restaurant Association¨ advised restaurants to ensure ventilation systems were operating properly, but also advised restaurants to increase circulation of outdoor air as much as possible by opening windows and doors.  Use contactless payment options as much as possible.

Contactless payments decrease the need for hand-tohand contact, which can help FACILITIES prevent the spread of COVID Sanitize the entire facility. 19.

Restaurants reopening their facilities to customers for SOCIAL DISTANCING the first time in months have  Update floor plans. Local/ been advised to thoroughly state officials that have aldetail-clean and sanitize their lowed restaurants to welcome entire facilities. High-contact in-person diners have manareas that would be touched dated that seating arrangeby both employees and cus- ments be redesigned to ensure tomers are particular points at least six feet of separation FOOD SAFETY of emphasis, but even sel- between table setups.  Install sneeze guards dom-touched surfaces must  Provide physical guides. around salad bars and buffets.

Many local/state governments continue to forbid restaurants from offering salad bars and buffets. But in areas where such offerings are allowed, sneeze guards must be in place to prevent the spread of the virus through respiratory droplets.  Provide food handler training to refresh employees. The National Restaurant Association¨ advises restaurants to refresh employees about proper food handling by providing fresh training to all employees.

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The National Restaurant Association¨ has advised restaurant owners to provide physical guides, including tape on floors and/or sidewalks, to increase the likelihood that customers continue to follow social distancing guidelines when patronizing restaurants.  Require waitstaff to wear masks. The National Restaurant Association¨ suggests restaurant owners should require waitstaff to wear face coverings even in areas where state/local officials have not made that mandatory. Doing so may ease customers’ concerns and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that face coverings can help to slow the spread of the virus dramatically.

Restaurants have reopened in many areas, and diners should know that many of their favorite eateries are going to great lengths to ensure their facilities are safe places to enjoy delicious meals. DE20B410

We Cater

Slices All Day

CATERING ORDERS AVAILABLE ALL DAY EVERY DAY. MUST CALL 1 DAY IN ADVANCE

Rosati Deal Rosati Deal 16” Thin Crust 1 Topping Pizza

18” Double Dough Pizza with 2 Toppings

$12.99

2 Liter of Pop &

18” Thin Crust 1 Topping Pizza

$15.99 with purchase of an 16” or 18” (toppings extra)

FREE DELIVERY!

$20.20

815.780.2780

Carry Out Delivery Catering

148 Gooding St., LaSalle, IL

ORDER ONLINE: www.MyRosatis.com/LaSalle

We deliever to: La Salle, Peru, Oglesby, Spring Valley, Ladd, Troy Grove, North Utica, Jonesville, Dalzell, Dimmick, Waltham, Tonica and Utica

DELIVERY COUPON

PIZZA MADNESS

Only $24.99

any 2-16” pizzas or

Meal Deal - 16” Thin Crust 2-Topping Pizza, 2-Liter of Pepsi & Free Delivery

with purchase of an 16” or 18” (toppings extra)

LaSalle • 815-780-2780

LaSalle • 815-780-2780

Not valid with any other offers, specials or catering packages.

Limited time offer only. Must mention coupon when ordering.

Valid at Rosati’s LaSalle Only. Expires 2/28/21

Not valid with any other offers, specials or catering packages.

Limited time offer only. Must mention coupon when ordering.

Valid at Rosati’s LaSalle Only. Expires 2/28/21

Hours

Mon. - Thurs. 10:30am -11pm Fri. 10:30am - 12am Sat. 11am - 12am Sunday 11am-11pm

Valid for Delivery Orders Only

$6 OFF

$10 OFF any 2-18” pizzas

LaSalle • 815-780-2780 Not valid with any other offers, specials or catering packages.

Limited time offer only. Must mention coupon when ordering.

Valid at Rosati’s LaSalle Only. Expires 2/28/21

LaSalle • 815-780-2780

Not valid with any other offers, specials or catering packages.

Limited time offer only. Must mention coupon when ordering.

Valid at Rosati’s LaSalle Only. Expires 2/28/21

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Voted Best Diner in Illinois among the Food Network’s 50 Best Diners in the Country!

Voted #1 Place for Lunch

Old Fashioned Diner Atmosphere!

Known for our Handmade Pork Tenderloins, Hand-Cut Fries, Chili, Taco Salads and Shakes and Malts Carry outs available 815-223-0848

www.igloodiner.com Temporary hours: open Wednesday through Sunday 11-8 2819 4th Street • Peru

Coal Miners Café

HOURS Mon, Thurs & Sun 5 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wed, Fri & Sat 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.

100 E. HENNEPIN STREET, MARK, IL

815.339.2210

Every Wednesday Starting at 11:00 a.m.

HOMEMADE * MEXICAN Guacamole, Pico de gallo, Rice, Beans, Burritos, Tacos, Taco Salad, Nachos, Quesadillas, Chimichangas, Tamales [when available], Fajitas & Our Regular Menu HOMEMADE RED & GREEN SALSA

Friday & Saturday – Fish Special Serving Cod, Whole Catfish, Chicken, Pasta Gyros Off the Spit [when available] 1/2 Rack BBQ Ribs [when available] STILL SERVING RAY’S SPAGHETTI SAUCE plus Our Regular Menu

Sunday – Breakfast ALL Day! Lunch also available at 11 a.m.

Crepes, Skillets, Pork Chops, Steaks, Omelets, Biscuits & Gravy

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WALT’S K I T C H E N &

155 MILL STREET • UTICA

815-667-5800

F UN , F AM I LY F RIEND LY D I N I N G & E NTE RTA I N M ENT

STARTERS • SOUPS • SALADS • SANDWICHES • PASTA • ENTREES

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SPECIALS EVERY LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH Outstanding Ramen Night 5-9PM EVERY 1ST & 3RD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH Breakfast and Build your own Bloody Mary 8-Noon

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1st & 3rd Saturday of Every Month for mouthwatering Prime Rib! Every Wing Night Wednesday $2 domestic pints Every Friday Night - Blue Gill Thursday - Saturday Nights BBQ Ribs, Steak, Fish & Pasta Specials TH E HOM E OF

FA M O U S JUMBO WINGS

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VOTED #1 WINGS

WEEKLY SPECIALS WEDNESDAY Burger or Sandwich of the Week 5-8PM THURSDAY Steak Night 5-8PM FRIDAY Fish Night 5-9PM SATURDAY Prime Night 4-9PM

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UPTOWN GRILL AMERICAN CUISINE WITH THE MOST EXTENSIVE MENU STARVED ROCK COUNTRY HAS TO OFFER. SATISFYING APPETITES SINCE 1985.

polished . modern . casual AREA’S LARGEST MENU • FULL MENU, LUNCH THRU DINNER, EVERYDAY KITCHEN & BAR SERVING LATE • KID FRIENDLY FOOD

CUT & AGED STEAKS IN-HOUSE • FRESH SEAFOOD & OYSTERS • GOURMET BURGERS & SANDWICHES CRAFT BREWS & WINE SELECTION PRIVATE BANQUET ROOM • PATIO DINING • DOGS WELCOME MOST SPACIOUS & SOCIALLY DISTANCED RESTAURANT IN THE AREA CURBSIDE SERVICE • ONLINE GIFT CARDS DRESSINGS, BREADS & DESSERTS ALWAYS AVAILABLE

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