Best places: Creole restaurants in Illinois

Hip, casual riverfront cafe & bar with eclectic live music, coffee & a menu of global eats.

Southern seafood boils, cocktails & beer served in nautical surroundings with a backyard look.

Cajun-Creole fare plus craft beers, signature cocktails & live music in a cozy saloon space.

👍👍 Alton NEEDED their presence and their amazing food. The traditional gumbo, cornbread, red beans and rice, unicorn cookies, and strawberry crunch cake pictured were so amazing I wished I would have bought more. The food here TASTES like it was made with love and experience! They have daily specials a...

Warm, family-owned offering coffee & Southern-style breakfast & lunch (plus dinner on weekends).

High-end eatery with a wine bar showcasing inventive American Creole cooking with a Brazilian twist.

Boisterous restaurant with funky flea-market decor & a menu of homestyle Cajun-Southern eats.

Cozy option for modernized soul & Creole cooking with BYOB (with a fee) beverages in a casual space.

Traditional Haitian fare & exotic juices in a casual, straightforward dining room with BYOB policy.

Full bar plus Creole dishes, po' boys & monthly Cajun specials in a casual, kitschy space.

😠 RUDE STAFF, TERRIBLE SERVICE long story short we were there for 2 hours and sat for the first 1hour Why, you ask? Because we review places honestly. Their servers are terrible and their food wasn't good enough for the pricing. We spent 210.00 with 4 people and she couldn't even split the bill for us...

😠 I will like to start off by saying that the service here is horrible! Last night we celebrated my brother birthday so it was 11 people in our party. My husband and I ordered a seafood bag with 1/2 pound of gumbo shrimp, fried sausage, lobster tail, broccoli and potatoes to go and this is what they g...

👍👍 First time eating from this spot. Food was hot and fresh and very flavorful. Had Catfish and greens with mac. I will most definitely be back.