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Niko's Red Mill Tavern

Iconic/NotableWoodstock (suburb) · American Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1040 Lake Ave, Woodstock, IL 60098

Niko's Red Mill Tavern trades on a real, tangible piece of local history — it operates out of an actual historic mill building, which gives its name more than marketing weight.

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A family-owned American tavern operating inside a genuinely historic Woodstock mill building, with outdoor seating specifically built for live music.

The menu runs on hearty, unpretentious American comfort food: burgers, fried chicken, mac and cheese, homemade pies, the kind of straightforward cooking that doesn't need reinvention to keep a decades-old local following coming back. Its outdoor seating area, added specifically to accommodate live music, turns a casual dinner into a genuine evening out when the weather cooperates.

For Woodstock's town-square dining scene, this is the kind of unpretentious, family-run anchor that holds a neighborhood together.

Specials at Niko's Red Mill Tavern

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Hours

Sun-Thu11AM-1AM
Fri-Sat11AM-2AM
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (815) 338-6455

Amenities & accessibility

❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
☀️Outdoor seating available

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