Full Menu
Our Thursday–Saturday menu features classic homestyle cooking and everyday comfort food favorites served in Equality, Illinois. Enjoy hearty, made-from-scratch meals with generous portions and friendly service. Every meal includes our signature hot bread and butter, served warm.
If you’re dining with us on Sunday, click here to see our Special Sunday Menu.
Full Menu Meals
For pricing, see the latest Menu PDF. Ask about our specials!
Appetizers
All appetizers come with a choice of dipping sauce: Ranch, Marinara, Honey Mustard or Cocktail Sauce.
- Mozzerella Sticks: served with your choice of sauce
- Corn Nuggets: breaded and fried to a golden brown, served with your choice of sauce
- Stuffed Mushrooms: fresh mushrooms stuffed battered and fried; served with Ranch
- Onion Haystack: onion straws served with house sauce
- Fried Pickles: sliced dill pickles battered and fried; served hot
- Loaded Potato Skins: potato skins loaded with hickory-smoked bacon, cheddar cheese and green onion; served with sour cream
Salads
Served with your choice of dressing: Ranch, French, Bleu Cheese, Poppy Seed, Honey Mustard, Italian, Thousand Island, Far-Free Raspberry Vinaigrette
- Apple Pecan Salad: sliced apples, sweet cranberries, feta cheese, an roasted pecans on a bed of crisp greens; served with pomegranate dressing
- Chef Salad: ham, lettuce, tomato, red onion, hard-boiled egg, cheddar cheese and house croutons
- House Salad: lettuce, tomato, red onion and cheddar cheese
- *Add Grilled or Crispy Chicken to any Salad
Burgers
All burgers are served with your choice of Red Onion’s Signature Side and cheese: Swiss, American, Pepper Jack or Provolone.
- The Classic Burger: topped with lettuce, tomato, pickles and onion
- Ragin’ Cajun Burger: topped with pepper jack cheese, house cajun sauce, grilled onions and Cajun seasoning
- Onion Haystack Burger: half-pound of beed topped with swiss cheese, house sauce, and piled high with onion straws
- Red Onion Royal: half-pound of beef topped with shaved prime rib, pepper jack cheese, chow and house-made sauce
Sandwiches
Served with your choice of Red Onion’s Signature Side.
- Italian Beef: our own delicious recipe served on a hoagie bun; served with au jus and pepperoncini
- Grilled Chicken Sandwich: our flat-grilled, seasoned chicken breast served on a toasted bun with lettuce, mayo and tomato
- Reuben: corned beef grilled and covered with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and house sauce
- Catish Sandwich: served on a toasted hoagie bun with tartar sauce and onion
- Prime Rib Cheese Steak Sandwich: shaved prime been steak, sauteed red onions, bell peppers with provoline cheese and Siracha mayo on a toasted hoagie
- Grilled Tenderloin Sandwich: perfectly seasoned tenderloin with crisp lettuce, mayo, and tomato served on a freshly toasted bun
- Ribeye Steak Sandwich: 6oz hand-cut ribeye grilled, seasoned on a hoagie bun
- BBQ Pork Sandwich: pork seasoned with a blend of The Red Onion’s secret spices and slow-smoked with hickory until tender and juicy
- BLT: bacon, lettuce and tomato served with mayo; served on Texas toast with a cold pickle spear
Hand-Cut Black Angus Steaks
Choose from our famous house blend of Cajun seasoning. Served your way: Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Well, or Well Done. Add fried or grilled shrimp, sauteed mushrooms, and/or sauteed onions to any steak.
- Prime Rib: Our famous prime cut served your way
- Ribeye: 8oz; 12oz; 16oz
- Cowboy Ribeye: 14oz
- Sirloin: 8oz
Steak & Rib Entrees
Served with your choice of Red Onion’s Signature Side and a House Salad.
- Baby Back Ribs: slow-cooked hickory smoked ribs, dry-rubbed or basted with our traditional BBQ sauce; order a half rack or a full rack
- Steak & Shrimp: fire-grilled 8ox ribeye steak with choice of fried or grilled shrimp
- Steak & Ribs: fire-grilled 8oz ribeye steak alongside our baby back ribs, dry rubbed or basted with our traditional BBQ sauce
- Chopped Steak: chopped steak grilled to your liking with grilled onions
Pork & Chicken Entrees
Served with your choice of Red Onion’s Signature Side and a House Salad.
- One-Inch Pork Chop: smoked and fire-grilled to perfection
- Two-Inch Pork Chop: thick-cut pork chop smoked and fire-grilled to perfection
- Frenched Pork Chop: 8oz bone-in pork chop marinated in brown sugar and cooked to perfection
- Grilled Chicken: served on a bed of rice
Seafood Entrees
- Fish Dinner: select a one-piece or two piece fish dinner; served with slaw, hushpuppies and your choice of signature side (a complimentary side of white means served on Friday and Saturday only)
- Seafood Platter: four lightly fried jumbo shrimp, hand-breaded frog legs and fish filet served with hushpuppies, signature side and house cole slaw
- New Orleans-Style Fish Chips: large platter of house-breaded or cajun seasoning golden fried fish chips; served with fries, hushpuppies and signature side
- Salmon: salmon on a bed of rice with house bourbon glaze; choice of Signature Side and a House Salad
- Fried Shrimp: golden fried popcorn shimp; served with Signature Side, hushpuppies and house cole slaw
- Shrimp Boat Platter: hearty platter of large, crispy golden fried or grilled shrimp; served with Signature Side, hushpuppies and house cole slaw
Sides
- French Fries or Loaded French Fries
- Steamed Broccoli
- Green Beans
- Okra
- Baked Beans
- Potato Salad
- Asparagus
- Onion Rungs
- Cottage Cheese
- Applesauce
- Baked Potato or Loaded Baked Potato
- Fried Potatoes
- House-Made Mac N Cheese
- Baked Sweet Potato
- White Beans
- Creamy Cole Slaw
- Vinegary Cole Slaw
You must be hungry now!

Join us for lunch from 11am-2pm.
Give us a call at (618) 276-4862 to place a reservation – or just walk-in! See you soon!




