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Discover Restaurants offering the best Diner food in Bloomington, Illinois, United States. Surrounded on all sides by rolling green farmland, Bloomington is a hub of activity offering attractions and events for all seasons. Take the kids to Grady's Family Fun Park for games, rides or a round of mini golf. Lace up your skates and glide across the rink at Pepsi Ice Center, or take to the Constitution Trail for jogging and cycling in the summer or cross-country skiing in the winter. You'll have no trouble teeing off in the Bloomington-Normal area, home to five golf courses.
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1. Fort Jesse Cafe
Overall Ratings
4 based on 208 reviews
Pursuing a vision of fun, fresh, homemade fare; in an unpretentious and uplifting atmosphere. Open 7 days/week.
Reviewed By Taylor B
My wife and I planned to stop in Bloomington-Normal for lunch on our drive home from St. Louis to Chicago. My pre-trip research indicated that Fort Jesse Cafe offered the top-rated lunch in the twin city area. When we got there, however, we learned that breakfast was the local favorite. In our view, lunch was good enough. Located at 1531 Fort Jesse Road, west of Veteran's Parkway, in Normal, it is a cheerful cafe serving diner-style breakfast, burgers and salads from 6 to 2 Monday through Friday and from 7 to 2 on Saturday and Sunday. If you want to find out what's going on in football or basketball at Illinois State University or the local high schools or what the St. Louis Cardinals (not the Chicago Cubs) are doing, you'll find lots of conversation at Fort Jesse Cafe. Between bites. My wife had a Midwest salad with chicken on Romaine lettuce with black beans, corn, white cheddar, fried onion rings, tomatoes, red cabbage, carrots and house-made BBQ sauce and a chicken BLT sandwich with chicken breast, bacon, egg over hard, lettuce, tomato and chipotle aioli on grilled sourdough with grilled chips. I started with a bowl of Cajun gumbo with shrimp, andouille, chicken and Cajun vegetables topped with white rice and served with jalapeno cornbread and a Ray's burger with an Angus beef patty, bacon, gouda, fried onion rings, chipotle aioli and house-made BBQ sauce on a brioche bun with fries. It sounds as good as it tasted. Two hands full of delicious. Wonder how they handled the Cardinals getting swept?
2. Tony's Diner
Overall Ratings
4 based on 35 reviews
Reviewed By dickemail
Sundays' haystack breakfast is plenty of food for two people. Soups are outstanding with a variety of types of noodles to please most everyone's appetites. They still have top of the line fried chicken special on Tuesdays menu. Biscuits and gravy unbeatable.
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3. Carmela's
Overall Ratings
4 based on 30 reviews
Reviewed By Roland D
What a find! South of the Border take on breakfast food. The staff is super friendly and make you feel like family. My In-Laws are regulars and love this place.
4. Keller's Iron Skillet
Overall Ratings
4 based on 25 reviews
Reviewed By kilgusk
A few years ago I passed this little diner and saw the big lettering on the outside of the building that advertised a "Steak and Eggs" breakfast for some ridiculously low price. I had passed it before and not given much thought. Didn't look like the greatest part of town, I was kind of unfamiliar with the area, etc. Anyway, I never stopped. That day though, I decided, "Why not??"I went in and ordered the steak and egg breakfast and I've been hooked ever since. I live around 35-40 miles away, so I don't have the opportunity all that often, but when I'm in the area I try to stop. The waitresses are the best and the food good. The steak in the steak and egg breakfast is a real steak, not some processed "mystery meat" that you get in other similar places. I have never had anything that I didn't like there. You can get a full bacon and egg breakfast for $2.99 (at least that's what it was the last time I was there) and that's unheard of today. I travel for my job and eat out a lot. I get really tired of the fancy stuff and am often looking for some good home cooking in small places with hometown folks eating and working there. Keller's is one of those places. Do not expect anything fancy - just good food made and served by good folks at more than fair prices!
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