Kickapoo Creek Winery

Friendly and accommodating service. My server, Tiffany, was polite, friendly, and efficient. I ordered the "5 for $5" wine flight and to eat, their super mushroom burger.

The wine flight I chose was the "Dry Wines" with samples being and my taste score below:
Misty Creek (w) 3.5/5
Red October (r) 4.2/5
Norton (r) 3.4/5
Kickapoo Blush (w) 3.5/5
Sun Kiss 4.0/5

I'm not a big fan of white wines, but was pleasantly surprised by the taste of Sun Kiss. The Red October was my overall favorite with taste and body.

My sandwich was hot off the griddle and humongous. It consisted of a half pound of angus beef, sautéed mushrooms, bacon, gooey gruyere, chipotle aioli sauce, and all served on a potato bun. It was delicious.

One can tour the vineyard grounds. There is a banquet room where parties and wedding receptions have been held. Hours of operation are:
Tasting Room
Monday - Closed
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

Serving Lunch Daily:
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 3pm
Saturday 11am - 3pm
Sunday 11am - 3pm

They have live entertainment on Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Check their website for more details and information at
www.kickapoocreekwinery.com

Just for the winery itself, a beautiful area with visible vineyards in the front.
Friendly service at the tasting room, perfect fire easy conversation without stuffiness of elite winery yet knowledgeable.
We just missed the time for lunch but they looked like they had a decent offering. Also had fun themed events like a murder mystery dinner.
Kid friendly which is helpful. Owner has a little kid so it was nice.
Wines were all quite tasty. Illinois wines tend to be quite sweet so they have some really good dessert wines. If you like dry, oaky flavors, it's harder to find.
Definitely fun for a stop in, especially if you're near Peoria

What a delightful experience we had when my friend and I stopped at the winery for lunch. We were amazed at the grounds surrounding the buildings. It was slightly confusing to find the building for Wine Tasting, where lunch is served, but we made it. We were the only ones having lunch when we arrived, although another couple was at the bar for wine tasting. Later a few other lunch patrons arrived.

Our sandwiches were great (I had chicken salad on croissant, my friend had a burger). The wine with my meal was superb. The staff was friendly and attentive, but not overly so. We will return, I am sure!

One of our favorite things to do is to taste wine. We were not disappointed with their wine. They also serve food too which was perfect as we were starved. We did the tasting of 2 white and 3 reds. Sun kiss was our favorite of the day. This winery also has a big banquet room for parties and weddings. The grounds were so beautiful. You are free to walk about them!!

Not sure what is going on here. I am a regular with my wife but the new year has brought new changes. I believe the GM is an ex sales girl who couldn't get our wedding due to the lack problem solving skills so I assume making her GM is a great thing to do. Food is still pretty good. They have changed a few things in the last 4-6 weeks, the fries are really good now but some other things have changed for the wrong direction. Hopefully they figure it out and go back to the old model of it isn't broke don't fix it. Cheaper isn't always better.

Good wine had the hummus and garlic and mushroom soup the staff was great for a chilly Saturday

A nice rustic winery in Kickapoo, which is just outside of Peoria. The wine tasting at Kickapoo Creek is very affordable at $3 for five tastings or for $5 you can also keep the glass. The wine stewards are nice and very easy going. When I go with a group of friends, they were great with accommodating our different preferences.

Some of my favorites:
Jubilee Gold - sweet white wine. Very smooth
Red October - dry red, not too intense but great on flavor
Dave - very sweet with strawberry and peach flavors. Highly recommended for those who are sweet wine drinkers
Nookeenay Meskaai - semi-sweet and very smooth. Good wine for those who are either more dry wine drinkers or sweet wine drinkers and want to try something new.

The wine tasting room gets busy on weekends due to group outings (such as bachelorette parties) or weddings. It is great to see this winery thriving!

They were having a Grape Stomping Festival and we were there to eat and sample wine and then maybe stay for the festival but the man there rudely asked us to pay $10 or at 1 leave this wasn't noon the greeters were nice they said no problem. And we drove 2 hours Togo there.

Went there for Easter Sun brunch
Eggs were cold so we're the mini mini chopped up potatoes. Fresh omelet was good. Salmon looked white and uneatable
And judging from it being untouched people agreed. OJ tasted funny and was served in plastic cup. Dessert was store bought and uneventful. Just seemed poor quality food for its hefty $25 pay in advance per person ticket price.

Was looking forward to having a lovely day drinking wine for my birthday before the extremely poor service started turn things for the downhill! First, I was told to be ready for the wine tour exactly at 12 because the tour guide likes to be very prompt. Boy was that a huge LIE!

My friends and I reached at 11 to eat lunch before the wine tour started. At 11:50 or so we find out that the food was not even getting made and we had to be ready for the tour by 12. I don't know why it never crossed anyone's mind that our food was not served after seeing no food on our tables after the half hour. There were people that arrived after us and got their meal before us. So the staff's way to compensate for it was to provide us with some hummus on the house...

Then it was tour time at 12, which the guide arrived late to! The guide was not as prompt as the lady on the phone thought he was. I don't really care about the guide being a little late, but the fact that we were told he was a timely person was the frustrating aspect.

Finally, we were expecting our lunch to be ready by the time we got back from the tour, I mean we had ordered it a 1.5 hours ago. We get back to our table and find that the status of our lunch was unknown. A little later, the 3 girls I was with received their lunch, but I had not. Typically, a group receives their food together. So, one of my friends had to ask what happened to my order. Turned out it was done, but just not served to me! It was ridiculous how she had to ask about it in order to for me to get it!

Then it was wine tasting time, and they provide five wines for tasting. When we are done with one, we can get the next wine. It took about 2.5 hours to get to our fifth wine tasting. Again people that had arrived before us were already on their way out while we were still wating for our wine. Felt very NEGLECTED and when we were ready for the bill, it required a lot more waiting too! We had to spend a whole 5 hours at the winery which mostly involved waiting around.

Wines were generally really good, but the poor service really put a damper on the experience and to my birthday celebration.

I do not plan on going back! Such a disappointment.