It has changed alot over the last couple years, used to have a great route 66 museum in one of the hallways, but the original owners sold the place. Good basic food, not a fancy restaurant.
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Dixie truck stop not what it used to be!
Dixie truck stop restaurant. There's a truck stop diner in mclean, illinois that has some of the best food you'd never expect to find. The restaurant and gas station has been open continuously since 1928 and is still run by the family today. The dixie restaurant, mclean, illinois.
Enter link to the menu for dixie travel plaza. Yes it's an older truck stop, but that's what i prefer. The dixie travel plaza, previously known as the dixie truck stop and dixie trucker's home,[1] is a large trucker and travel plaza located in mclean, illinois, on interstate 55.[2] it was established by j.p.
They took it they will rinse it out put hot water in it and then put coffee ☕ in it. Originally named dixie trucker's home it has changed names to dixie truck stop and the dixie travel plaza. Among the many landmark s to be found along old route 66 is one that's known by most aficionados of the old highway:
Dishes meat pork bun cha burgers hamburger and fries hamburgers fries salads toast sausages. Soon it became a restaurant, they added cabins and even a cattle pen to it. And always servers with smiles.
The dixie restaurant in illinois is an unsuspecting truck stop where you can pull over and have a meal. They have a great buffet with plenty of selections and they have a great menu including breakfast all day. The bread pudding on the buffet was delicious, though.
Route 66 and il route 136 in mclean il. The food is extremely overpriced. I visited around 11 am and selected the buffet for $7.99.
The green shingle, more recently known as dixie truckers home, is being demolished. The dixie truckers home in mclean, illinois, a combination truck stop and restaurant that's been around almost as long as 66 itself. Family restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
One was edible after soaking in gravy, the other was not. In 1965 the restaurant burned, but that didn't stop john geske. Order off the menu or there is usually a buffet, especially at regular meal times.
Meat, salads, pork and coffee can be the most popular dishes and drinks people choose from the menu. Dixie truck stop mclean il menu. On the upside, they had plenty of parking.
The buffet was 1/2 breakfast and 1/2 lunch. Bookmark update menu edit info read reviews write review. When our family goes to mclean for an arcadia outing, we always eat at the dixie cafe!
Mclean, il 61754 (map & directions) phone: Like today i brought a thermos in with me. I thought it was going to be a unique little route 66 diner with some home cookin', though.
This is the restaurant that is still being used today. The new owners need to take care of it quite a bit better than they do. The show came to the dixie for two days to do background bios on her and dixie for a bio segment on the show.
Eva's parents (tom and elaine kapatos) purchased the dixie truck stop restaurant in aug, 2009. Walters opened the dixie truck stop in a garage on the south side of route 66. And, they had a buffet, which overall was ok.
Dixie truckers home has alot of history, was the first truck stop on the mother road. Food was as descent as any other truck stop. (2 tips) Instead, it was a fairly standard truck stop.
American, soups, breakfast, brunch, buffet. 105 reviews #1 of 1 restaurant in mclean $ american diner. He used one of his cabins to operate the dixie truckers home while the new restaurant was being built.
1,640 likes · 7 talking about this. Eva says she learned to cook from her mom and dad but especially her dad who is the. Truckers and travelers were attracted by its.
The biscuits for the biscuits and gravy were as hard as hockey pucks. Road ranger purchased this location in 2012 to which bbc construction management began a major renovation on both the interior gas station and retail sales areas as well as the. This place is an institution.
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