Reids’harvest House Smorgasbord
2440 State St, Chester, IL, 62233
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Address :
2440 State St
Chester, IL, 62233 - Phone (618) 826-4933
- Website https://www.reidsharvesthouse.com
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Opening Hours
- Tue
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : No
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Noise Level : Loud
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : No
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Chris K.
Reid's has been around for about 30 years now, and there's a good reason for that: both the food and the service are great. They are open Tuesday-Sunday for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's a buffet style restaurant (except weekday breakfast) serving the types of down-home, country cooking you would expect (e.g., fried chicken). I think the value is great; sometimes I wonder how they make a profit with such reasonable prices. Many of their regular customers drive quite awhile to eat at Reid's, and I personally eat there about once/week. If you're in the mood for a buffet-style meal, this family owned and operated restaurant is definitely your spot.
(5)Suzanne L.
Reid's is great for what it is-country cooking that's plentiful & good. Looking for something trendy? Then don't come here. But if you like great fried chicken & catfish, mashed potatoes with creamy sausage gravy, & bread pudding to die for, then give this a try. We love coming here on our annual fall trip to Carbondale. The service is fast & friendly & we've yet to be disappointed.
(5)Dave F.
I have not been to the Friday Seafood feast or breakfast- I can only write of the Saturday Night Smorgasbord. For about $10 I was a hog on fried fish, chicken & okra that a put Tabasco on. I did also enjoy the wheat rolls, pulled BBQ and a pasta salad. The salad bar gave more choices than most place (IE- iceberg, romaine and spinach were all available in quantity). The service was nice & kept me well satisfied with unsweetened tea that was brewed correctly. The decor is dated & none of the food made me think "wow" ... BUT the service & all-you-can-swallow says A-OK.
(3)dean d.
We've only been here for breakfast, and the quality of the offerings seem to get better in quality. Service is always friendly. They offer several egg options, poached and scrambled, as well as an egg casserole. Bacon, sausage links are cooked to perfection. French toast, two kinds of pancakes, french toast casserole, bread pudding, muffines and pastries cover the carbs end of the menu. And not to forget the fresh fruit offerings, as well as fruit cocktails, apple sauce, cottage cheese and prunes. All good stuff. Hope they keep it up.
(4)Jackie W.
A Smorgasbord of Seafood, my Friday Dinner at Reid's Harvest House As a child, still immune to the beauty of a great buffet, I rued each dinner at Reid's Harvest House that my parents drug me to as we came back from long drives and outdoor adventures in Southern Illinois. At the time, I could not comprehend eating any 'homemade' food that was not in fact made in my home, by my mother. This buffet stuff was just all too fake, and tasted almost but not quite 'there'. I have memories of coming here that serve as different stopping points in my maturation from a kid, to whiny youth, to bored teenager that I can use to clearly see through to the past, thanks to Reid's Harvest House. It wasn't until my most recent trip back here, as a 29 year old adult, that I realized how wrong I was not to love this smorgasbord. It was a Friday night, and we were coming back from a day at Kinkaid lake, a wonderful day that turned out to be one of the few times in recent memory that all three of us kids and mom and dad spent the day together, something that due to geography, timing, and circumstance, will probably will not happen again for a long time. The sun was late in the afternoon sky as we slowly towed into the parking lot, piled our sun burnt and boat weary bodies out of the F150 and shuffled into RHH. Despite the full waiting room, we were promptly sat at a large round table, in a room adjacent to the actual buffet line. The place was full, and our perfectly small town waitress welcomed us to their Friday Night Seafood Dinner, and went to fetch us our drinks. Friday Night Seafood Dinner?! We were in for a treat! Despite not being here for at least 10 years, I knew exactly where to go. Places like Reid's don't change, they don't need to, they need to change about just as much as the surrounding farm families, landscapes, and road signs do, which don't care to and don't have a need for much of that. I stood there, in line at the salad end, watching the other diners scoot ahead of me, encased in the brown floor and brown wood walls lit up by the bright buffet table lights, like the glow inside a cocoon lamp, we were all drawn zombie eyed towards the food. For salads, everything was available, even your own halved hard boiled eggs, bacon bits, and red beets. In the middle, you were hit with bread pudding and brownies, to save room for the spectacular cornucopia of seafood delights at the end. Needless to say, the line buckled a bit down there. You had, fried split shrimp, steamed mussels, clam strips, shrimp cocktail, crawfish, yes crawfish!, crab cakes, stuffed crab shells, cat fish, seafood pasta, baked tilapia, and frog legs! Along with this, you had your standard buffet fare, several kinds of potato, veggies, pastas, breads, fruit, jellos, mac n cheese, and on and on, all with boys coming out of the back at the ready to dump for hot food in front of you just when you needed it. And yes, there was an ice cream machine that was not that weak soft serve, it was almost like real ice cream, and you had Oreos, sprinkles, or Heath Bar crumbles for toppings. I, after drinking malt beverages all day, and wasting away in the sun, was glad for RHH, glad for the fried or not food I was shoveling in my mouth, glad for the full tummy it made, glad for the family I was with, and glad for all of the happy and contented Southern Illinois people with me in that dining room. My people, people in overalls, people in their 'goin out' clothes, people in their lake clothes, people in camo clothes, people in church clothes, people who just were happy to be eating a big meal on a Friday night. And whether you're in a family owned countrified smorgasboard of a place in Chester Illinois, or eating tuna tar tar at some place on Washington street, if you don't feel like you're with your people, your seafood ain't never gonna taste right. If you are looking for an authentic buffet experience or are coming home from a long hike, or a visit with Popeye, take your family to Reid's Harvest House, see if they enjoy it, before your kids are too old to go back to it one day when they themselves have grown.
(4)Jim K.
Breakfast is ok. Dinner buffet is horrible. Nothing is seasoned and the decor looks like my grandmas house. Very outdated.
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