Red Apple Family Restaurant

Meh. Nothing special. Prices ok, but food very bland. I ordered Chicken Parmesan. Chicken ok, decent breading but the pasta was so bland I didn’t finish it. Salad looked fresh, but was swimming in the water at the bottom of the bowl. Plus in the peak of tomato season there was one cherry tomato! Husband had the Walleye and shrimp Friday special. He said the walleye was good, but the shrimp was bland, the green beans were waxy (probably canned), and the baked potato wasn’t completely cooked. We were there for a group gathering. Won’t rush back.

Driving through rural Illinois, you can find little gems of Americana. Red Apple Restaurant is one of those!
We ate here Sunday late morning. There was a wait but it was just a few easy minutes.
Menu offers a lot of choices. Standard breakfast food, burgers, pasta, fish, salads.
Half of our group ordered breakfast. French toast, pancakes, hash browns, eggs and sausage. All delicious. My French toast was particularly good. A hint of vanilla, perfectly golden, thick slices of French toast. My hash browns were more like browned mashed potatoes with a very mealy texture. They still tasted wonderful.
Pancake, eggs, sausage patties were all very good. Pancakes were medium size and fluffy! Eggs and sausage are hard to mess up and these were just as you’d expect.
The lunch crowd had different variations of burgers. All of them were big, juicy. They are very accommodating in giving you exactly the toppings you want for the burger. I always believe a place moves from good to great depending on their French fries. Red Apple offers big steak fries. Everyone ate most of their fries and all agreed the fries were «all right» (said with a shrug). Too bad.
Service was very prompt and attentive. The restaurant itself is the family-​run, next-​to-​the-​highway diner you’d expect.
Overall, we had a good, hot, satisfying meal. Four grown-​ups and two kids ate for $ 39, not including tip. If only the fries had been better… it would be 5 stars.

Decent home style cooking. Menu a little too all over the place with gyros to shrimp Alfredo. Not bad if your looking for a good breakfast or decent salad and home style dinner. Wouldn’t recommend the gyros though. Not very authentic tasting.

Wife and I had lunch there today. I had the philly and my wife had a bacon cheese burger. The trash on the outside of the building should have a red flag but we tried it anyway. The philly was literally a 6 oz ribeye on a bun cooked into leather with canned mushrooms and sautéed onions. No peppers. The burger had to be a frozen patty from Walmart or some cheap bulk order company. We ate part of it and then declined the ‘to go’ box. Lunch was almost $ 19. Just drive by this greasy spoon.

Prices are very reasonable, wait staff very friendly, but the food is just tolerable. We have eaten there twice, first we had breakfast there, wasn’t impressed. We decided to give them another chance and had lunch there yesterday. We won’t be going back for dinner! They need to not buy prepackaged food! The breaded tenderloin is something you could find in your grocers freezer! I give them one star for wait staff.

Decent food with larger portions. Good price.