Best Restaurants

 
 

Kep’s Sports Bar & Grill

Enjoy a full service restaurant menu, with your family and friends – bring your young children and old kids, too. While you’re here, watch the big game on our big-screen TVs. Test your luck at our six video gambling machines. We also have kids arcade games. And enjoy our full service bar, complete with wine, spirits, and fourteen beers on tap. Stop by as soon as you can, check out our daily specials, exciting and inviting atmosphere, and of course cheer on your favorite team while you’re here!

 

The Blend

The Blend started as a traditional second wave coffee shop geared towards specialty coffee and away from your grandpa’s Folgers can, always striving for the highest quality product. With this attitude, we have come in line with the third wave movement; placing a heavier emphasis on the origin of coffee and its production, in an effort to craft the perfect drink.

The Blend is now happily a product of both these influential movements in the coffee industry. Having an exciting passion for the craft, putting the product first, and emphasizing origin, while staying true to where it all began, has helped The Blend get to where it is today. Our hope is that The Blend will be a staple in the area for years to come. Drinking better coffee is defining. As a part of this unique community, this is our contribution.

 

Bernardi’s

Nildo “Mona” Arthur Bernardi founded Mona’s Italian Restaurant as a bustling beer parlor in Toluca, Illinois in 1933. Many Italians had immigrated to Toluca to work the coal mines that were prevalent during this time in Central Illinois.

The name Mona was derived from the orchestra called Mona’s Harmony Kings. Mr. Bernardi formed this orchestra in the late 20’s and early 30’s. When Mona’s Restaurant opened, the Pabst Brewing Company donated a neon sign with the name Mona below it, and the rest is history.