Old Mill Tavern

OK, this is kind of a quaint classic place in a very small town. The Google map showing where it is at looks a lot busier than the location itself.
Went there on a Tuesday night for their steak special. For $ 8.25 (add $ 0.25 for sour cream), you get a baked potato and a grilled steak of fairly decent proportion. Great deal.
Service was kind of slow, but we had a deck of cards and played gin, so it wasn’t a big deal. And I kind of enjoyed just sitting there and soaking up the atmosphere — though the old tools referred to in the previous review weren’t very evident. We went out to the place using several back road — quite the trip.
Hope to go there again.

Sheridan is a lovely place to stop when you’ve decided to get out of the city and see some of the beautiful IL farmland. The Old Mill Tavern is an authentic country restaurant — old tools and memorabelia that have been on the walls for years, plastic table cloths, and a menu that mainly consists of fried chicken, fish, and burgers, with cole slaw and macaroni salad for side orders. I had ¼ light (Perdue) chicken. MMMMM — crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The coleslaw had a little too much onion for me, but it was crisp, not soaking in a bath of dressing. Service was slow, and even the regulars were surprised at that. So, leave you diet in the city and enjoy the scenic ride along IL 71 to Sheridan.