Crystal Lake Rib House

Crystal Lake Rib House Menu

(815) 477-3600
540 E Terra Cotta Ave, Crystal Lake, IL 60012

Appetizers


Chili Cheese Nachos
$10.95
Crisp corn tortilla chips covered with our homemade chili and soft cheddar cheese. Add pork for an additional charge.
Fried Pickles
$10.95
Lightly battered dipped pickle spears, fried golden brown, served with our Buffalo ranch dipping sauce. You’re gonna love them.
Fried Green Beans
$10.95
A pile of battered green beans, served golden brown with our Buffalo ranch dipping sauce.
Texas Toothpicks
$9.95
Strips of jalapeno peppers and sweet onions battered and served overflowing and ready to dip in honey mustard sauce.
Fried Jalapenos
$9.95
Cheddar stuffed breaded jalapeno peppers served with spicy homemade salsa.
Chewy Mozzarella Stix
$10.95
10 sticks served with marinara sauce.
Homemade Salsa & Chips
$10.95
Our homemade corn chips served warm and ready for dipping in a tub of our fresh salsa and warm cheddar cheese. Sliced jalapenos served on the side.
Sweet Vidalia Onion Rings
$13.95
A heaping pile of nature‘s sweetest onion.
Wisconsin Cheese Curds
9.95

$Fun Stuff and Snacks


Fried Mac & Cheese
$10.95
You will not believe how good this is.
Ultimate Tater Tots
$12.95
Crispy crunchy tater tots with diced hardwood smoked bacon, topped with sour cream and our homemade queso cheese sauce.
Fried Pickles
$10.95
Golden fried or fried in a spicy Buffalo batter.
Loaded Fries
$9.95
Golden brown curly fries with a generous portion of our homemade hardwood smoked bacon chunks topped with Wisconsin hard sharp cheddar cheese melted over top.
Boneless Buffalo Chicken Wings
$9.95
Crispy crunchy all white chicken fried up and tossed in Buffalo sauce and served with bleu cheese and celery.
Wisconsin Cheese Curds
$10.95
A huge pile of these crunchy on the outside warm and chewy on the inside curds, served with our homemade Buffalo ranch dipping sauce.
Pretzel Cheese Curds
$9.95
A huge pile of these crunchy on the outside warm and chewy on the inside curds, served with our homemade Buffalo ranch dipping sauce.
Nacho Normal Nachos
16.95
A heaping mound of fresh warm tortilla chips with slow smoked pulled pork throughout, sliced jalapenos, fresh homemade salsa, a matrix of sour cream and covered with a canopy of melted Wisconsin harsh sharp cheddar cheese, served on a pizza pan. Add beef brisket for an additional charge.

$Rib House Chili

I know it’s not nice to brag, but I won medals 3 out of 4 years competing at the taste of Chicago chili cook-off. I’ve been featured on live cooking remotes on WGN and Fox TV and shown winning on WLS TV Channel 7 and WMAQ Channels.
Rib House Chili Bowl
8.95

$Wings


Jumbo Buffalo Chicken Wing
The best wings you ever ate. Served with bleu cheese and celery. Available in our traditional vinegar based Buffalo sauces of mild, hot or hotter. You may also get them BBQ’d or in our homemade hot Sonoran sauce or Super Sonoran sauce.
Jumbo Buffalo Chicken Wing Meal
The best wings you ever ate. Served with bleu cheese and celery. Available in our traditional vinegar based Buffalo sauces of mild, hot or hotter. You may also get them BBQ’d or in our homemade hot Sonoran sauce or Super Sonoran sauce. Includes a fresh baked roll, homemade honey butter, coleslaw, and your choice of our smokey baked beans or steak cut fries.
Jumbo Buffalo Crackers
$17.95
Boneless jumbo chicken breast tenders prepared Buffalo style in your choice of sauce with bleu cheese and celery. Includes a fresh baked roll, homemade honey butter, coleslaw and your choice of our smokey baked beans or steak cut fries.
Jumbo Buffalo Crackers Meal
21.95
Boneless jumbo chicken breast tenders prepared Buffalo style in your choice of sauce with bleu cheese and celery. Careful, these are addictive. Want your Buffalo chicken wings or Crackers as a meal. Add for an additional charge which includes a fresh baked roll, homemade honey butter, coleslaw and your choice of our smokey baked beans or steak cut fries.

$Lo & Slow Baby Back Ribs

Down to the bone delicious! Pat bruno food critic, Chicago sun-times I couldn’t agree more! My select ribs and rib tips are covered with my dry rub, smoked to textured perfection, then char-grilled and slathered with my homemade BBQ sauce. Served with a fresh baked roll, homemade honey butter, coleslaw and your choice of smokey baked beans, steak cut fries or buttered red potatoes.
Lo & Slow Baby Back Ribs

Real American Big Shoulder BBQ Entrees

All entrees are served with coleslaw, dinner bun, homemade honey butter and your choice of steak cut fries, rib house red potatoes or smokey baked beans.
Sweet Smoked St. Louis Ribs
$21.95
A sweeter dry rub on our meaty St. Louis ribs, hardwood smoked for 5 hours over applewood delivers a more complex texture and flavor profile that can't be beat. Great to order them plain to be able to try all the sauces.
Sliced Beef Brisket Platter AVAILABLE FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY ONLY
$26.95
Smoked for 16 hours, sliced and seasoned over Texas Toast, drizzled with our classic homemade BBQ Sauce. Top your beef with 2 fried eggs for an additional charge.
4 Meats Sliced Beef Brisket All In Combo Platter
$27.95
Sloe smoked beef brisket on Texas Toast, smoked sausage, finger lickin' BBQ chicken and a wedge of baby back ribs. Common, eat like you mean it.
Big Daddy Burger
16.95
A 1/2 lb. char grilled burger thin sliced beef brisket, a sliced smoked sausage link, thick crispy hardwood smoked bacon, under melted sharp hard cheddar cheese and topped with a fried egg. So good you might slap your grandma.

$Char Grilled Burgers

Served with coleslaw and your choice of smokey baked beans, steak cut fries or buttered red potatoes. Served with Swiss, American or cheddar cheese for an additional charge. Served with cheddar and sliced jalapeno add for an additional charge. Served with bacon, cheddar and BBQ, topped with onion ring add for an additional charge.
Pork Cheddar Burger
$16.95
You better be hungry when you order this monster. Our jumbo burger topped with a pile of pulled pork and then smothered with melted hard cheddar cheese. It’s awesome. Served with bacon add for an additional charge. Then go for a check-up.
Juicy Char Grilled Burger
13.95
A 1/2 lb. hand formed jumbo burger grilled to order on a toasted bun with lettuce, tomato and pickle chips. Raw onion available.

$BBQ Sandwiches

As big as your head. Served with coleslaw and your choice of smokey baked beans, steak cut fries or buttered red potatoes.
Pulled Pork The Big Boy
$15.95
Yes, this is it. Our slow, smoked, dry rubbed, pork, pulled and seasoned. Tossed with our homemade BBQ sauce & then piled so high it has its own zip code. You’ll have to eat it down to size.
Beef Brisket The Beef Boy - AVAILABLE FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY ONLY
$15.95
Just like our big boy except here it’s our slow smoked, shredded beef brisket piled so high you may need a permit.
Char Grilled Chicken Tender Sandwich
$14.95
Boneless, skinless chicken tenders char grilled and dipped in BBQ sauce with lettuce, tomato and pickle chips. Also available plain or with sonoran Hot sauce. Served with bacon and cheddar add for an additional charge.
Pulled Chicken Samitch
15.95
Dry rubbed smoked all white chicken breast, shredded and pilled high on a bun. BBQ a Buffalo style.

$Rib Tips

These chunky ends to the spare rib are the ultimate finger food. I've been known to disappear for days on the couch with these and a few cold beers during football season.
Huge Rib Tip Dinner
$20.95
Not As Huge Rib Tip Dinner
15.95

$BBQ'd Chicken

These gorgeous free range chickens (yea right, like I know where these chickens come from) are roasted in my hand crafted dry rub. Then, they’re char grilled and dipped in that delicious BBQ sauce. Served with a grilled pita bread, honey butter, coleslaw and your choice of smokey baked beans, steak cut fries or buttered red potatoes.
1/2 Chicken
$14.95
Breast, wing, leg & thigh.
Whole Chicken
16.95
2 breasts, 2 wings, 2 legs & 2 thighs.

$Crystal Lake Combos

Served with a fresh baked roll, homemade honey butter, coleslaw, choice of smokey baked beans, steak cut fries or buttered red potatoes.
Big Mix Combo
$23.95
Half chicken & half slab.
Bigger Mix Combo
$29.95
Half chicken & full slab.
Tips Mix Combo
$21.95
Half chicken & half rib tips.
Wing Tips Combo
23.95
Buffalo wings and rib tips.

$Couch Potato Kits

All buckets, except for the chicken wings, includes a 16 oz. Coleslaw & choice of a 16 oz. Smokey baked beans or a large order of steak cut fries or 16 oz. Buttered red potatoes. For a deluxe bucket, add fresh baked rolls or grilled pita bread and honey butter for an extra charge.
Bucket of 50 Wing
$46.95
Bucket of 32 Rib Tips
$36.95
Bucket of 2 Whole Chicken
$32.95
16 pieces.
Bucket of Chicken All White Meat
$37.95
8 breasts & 8 wings.
Bucket of Ribs - 2 Whole Slabs
45.95

$Fresh Salads

Salads dressings : french, honey mustard, ranch, buffalo ranch, Caesar, blue cheese or balsamic vinaigrette.
Crunchy Buffalo Chicken Tender Salad
$14.95
Buffalo style breaded chicken strips over mixed greens.
Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad
$14.95
Chopped romaine lettuce tossed with grated Parmesan cheese and classic Caesar dressing, topped with grilled chicken, croutons and pita bread.
Grilled Chicken Salad
$14.95
Large mixed greens with cucumber; tomato, and croutons topped with grilled chicken and pita bread.
San Antonio Salad
$13.95
Garden best mixed greens with tomato wedges, shredded cheddar, chopped bacon, crunchy croutons and grilled pita bread. Served with grilled chicken add for an additional charge.
Garden Salad
$7.95
Small mixed greens, tomato, cucumber & croutons.
Country Cobb Salad
15.95
A heaping bowl of fresh greens with grilled chicken, shredded sharp cheddar cheese, sliced hardboiled egg, corn kernels, diced bacon, cucumbers, topped with a few red onion rings, and served with a grilled pita.

$Skeeter’s Seafood Shack

Seafood dinners served with coleslaw, lemon, cocktail or tartar sauce, fresh baked roll, homemade honey butter, choice of smokey baked beans, steak cut fries or buttered red potatoes.
Fried Popcorn Shrimp
$13.95
Catfish Dinner
$15.95
2 farm raised cat fish filets rolled in corn meal & fried golden brown.
Perch Dinner
$14.95
2 breaded perch filets, fried golden brown.
Bluewater Pollack
14.95
Sweet pollack filets batter dipped & fried golden brown or black if the cook falls asleep.

$Kids Menu

10 years and under. Kids meals, except for macaroni & cheese, includes choice of fries, baked beans or small garden salad. Want 2 sides. Add for an additional charge kids eat Free every Tuesday and Thursday, Kids menu only. Not valid with any other offer, promotion, discount or coupon. 1 kids meal free per 1 dinner entree.
Kids Cheese Burger
$6.99
Kids Burger with 2 Side
$7.99
Cheeseburger.
Kids Chicken Nuggets
$5.99
Kids Chicken Nuggets with 2 Side
$6.99
Kids Mini Corn Dogs
$5.99
Kids Mini Corn Dogs with 2 Side
$6.99
Kids Pulled Pork Sandwich
$7.99
Kids Pulled Pork Sandwich with 2 Side
$6.99
Kids Barbecued Chicken
$5.99
Kids Barbecued Chicken with 2 Side
$6.99
Kids Barbecued Ribs
$8.99
Kids Barbecued Ribs with 2 Side
$9.99
Kids Macaroni & Cheese
5.99
No side.

$Sides


Baked Beans
Coleslaw
Grilled Pita Bread
Fresh Baked Roll
Homemade Honey Butter
Beefsteak Fries
$5.95
Cheese Fries
$7.95
Chili Cheese Fries
$8.95
Buttered Red Potatoes

Desserts


Fresh Baked Pies
$8.95
Pies cut into flintstone sized wedges, happy apple, blueberry, peach, cherry or mixed fruit (when available)
Cherry and Peach Pies
$8.95
Carrot Cake
$12.95
I can’t believe the size of this.
Double Fudge Chocolate Cake
$12.95
A chocolate lovers dream.
Super Sundae
$7.95
Mounds of vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, your choice of peanuts or crushed oreos, whipped cream & a cherry.

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