Food

The reception (dinner on Sunday): 

The wedding will be catered by 17th Street Bar & Grill in Murphysboro. Recently they were featured on Food Network's Food Feud and they won!

Of course, Owl Creek wine will be offered. We will also have Schlafly beers on tap!


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FYI, for other meals:

Area restaurants (check back for updates closer to May...)

Cobden (5 miles/10-15 minutes)
Taco place behind the laundromat **(authentic, Grete's favorite tamales)
Palace Pizzeria 618-893-4415
Yellow Moon Café

Giant City Park / Makanda area
Giant City Lodge 618-457-4921
Bogey’s at Stone Creek (on Hwy 51)


Makanda
Makanda boardwalk - I think there is still an ice cream shop, maybe with sandwiches

Carbondale
Tres Hombres 618-457-3308  **(owned by a family friend)
Corner Diner **(good breakfast)...might be closed now (?)

Habaugh’s Café 618-351-9897 **(awesome breakfast, but busy)

Newell House, 618-549-6400 **

Quatro’s Deep Pan Pizza, 618-549-5326 **(a Carbondale favorite)

Global Gourmet (fun, not a "quick stop" though) - recommended
Longbranch (breakfast, lunch, dinner, no alcohol) - recommended

Melange (open only 5-10pm) 
Stone Creek Restaurant and Golf Course (serves lunch and dinner)
Mary Lou’s Grill, 618-457-5084 **(breakfast)

Mississippi Flyway, 618-529-9363
Don Taco,  618-549-3777
El Bajio, 618-529-1648
Pagliai’s Pizza & Pasta, 618-457-032
Show Me’s, 618-549-3646
Spinoni’s Pizza & Pasta,  618-457-5544
Fujiyama Japanese Steakhouse, 618-549-2000
Houlihans, 618-457-4020
Hunan Village, 618-529-1198
Italian Village, 618-529-5715 (a junior high favorite in my day - you can sign the walls...)
Panera Bread, 457-0321 
Moe’s Southwest Grill, 618-549-4200
Lone Star Steak House, 618-529-2556
Callihans Irish Pub, 618-529-5494

Other
Tom’s Place, DeSoto 618-867-3033 (pretty expensive, but good, an experience in the middle of nowhere)