Beloved Freeport Restaurant Featured on ‘America’s Best Restaurants’ Is Closing for Good

This Is It Eatery is a beloved restaurant for the Freeport, Illinois area community that has received many awards and was even featured on 'America's Best Restaurants Road Show', but now its story is coming to an end.

Reasons to Visit Freeport

Since moving to Pecatonica four years ago, my family has become well acquainted with everything the Freeport, Illinois, area has to offer.

We love going to movies at the Lindo Classic Cinemas. It's where we run the majority of our errands, and Freeport is often where we go to eat at a restaurant too.

For the last four years I have been saying that we need to try This Is It Eatery in downtown Freeport, and in the last four years we still haven't done it.

Now, it's too late.

Sad News From This Is It Eatery

Do you remember back in 2023 when This Is It Eatery was featured on 'America's Best Restaurants Road Show'?

This Is It Eatery specializes in classic American cuisine like steaks, burgers, and wings, but  'America's Best Restaurants Road Show' praised them for having "killer meatloaf and gravy" among several other things:

After over 8 years of running the restaurant, This Is It Eatery's owners have decided it's time to start a new chapter, but a decline in customer support is not the reason.

While that message from This Is It Eatery's owners says they will be "concentrating on us", do you think there's any chance their new chapter will involve the reopening of This Is It Eatery in a new location with fewer lease issues? I'll keep my fingers crossed...just in case.