About Cummare’s
Cummare’s in Murphysboro, IL, offers a warm and welcoming Italian dining experience built around homestyle cooking, generous hospitality, and a setting that feels both comfortable and memorable. This modest restaurant is known for serving classic Italian favorites such as pasta, pizza, and fresh salads, all complemented by a thoughtful wine selection and a menu designed to satisfy a wide range of tastes. Whether guests are stopping in for a relaxed lunch, a cozy dinner, or a meal enjoyed solo, Cummare’s creates an atmosphere that encourages people to slow down, settle in, and enjoy food that feels familiar, satisfying, and made to be shared. With a 4.60-star rating from 566 reviews, it’s clear that diners value the quality of the food, the consistency of the service, and the inviting experience the restaurant provides. What makes Cummare’s especially appealing is the way it blends great food with convenience and comfort. Guests can choose outdoor seating, dine in, take away, or enjoy delivery, making it easy to fit a meal into any schedule. The restaurant is well suited for both everyday dining and special occasions, offering fast service, a fireplace, cocktails, a strong wine list, great dessert, and even local specialties that give the menu a distinctive sense of place. From alcohol, beer, and cocktails to coffee, comfort food, happy-hour selections, all-you-can-eat options, and small plates, the menu gives customers plenty of reasons to return again and again. Cummare’s is also a popular choice for lunch, dinner, catering, dessert, seating, and table service, making it a dependable destination for both casual meals and larger gatherings. Designed with accessibility and guest comfort in mind, Cummare’s offers wheelchair-accessible parking, entrance, seating, and restroom facilities, ensuring that more people can enjoy the experience with ease. The restaurant’s casual, cozy, historic, romantic, and trendy feel adds to its broad appeal, creating an environment that works just as well for a quiet date night as it does for a friendly meal with family or friends. With reservations accepted and payment options including credit and debit cards, planning a visit is simple and straightforward. Located at 1023 Chestnut St in Murphysboro, Cummare’s brings together quality Italian food, attentive service, and a welcoming atmosphere that keeps customers coming back for more.
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Great little Italian restaurant. Small towns seem to have a lot of little gems like this. My wife and I had our first date in one just like it in west Texas. On this occasion we stopped in for the lunch buffet before hitting the wine trail. The pizza and pasta were both great as was the service. I hear …
Great food! I used to come here as a kid 20+ years ago and recently had booked a 25 person rehearsal dinner on a Friday night. They easily accommodated us and service was spot on! By the time we ordered to us getting our entrees was maybe 45 minutes (we had apps and most of our party had salads as …
WE stopped for our first meal out moving into the area. I called ahead to see if they were busy and she recommended a reservation. When we got there it was a full house but our table was ready. We were immediately approached and we enjoyed exploring the drink and food menu. We actually had two staff members helping us …
UPDATE Oct 24, had a nice dinner, always amells so good walking in, waitress very nice. MARCH 24 Pizza was amazing
First time visiting, we have been missing out! The food was delicious! We had family visiting from Colorado. They all loved it too! Staff very friendly
12/10 service!! The staff was flawless at there job. The staff was polite, thorough, attentive, and overall just brought a great atmosphere. The food was cooked just right and was served up hot. The staff worked well managing other tables. The inside of this establishment had a very nice Italian/country side appeal. Overall I will be back. And no this …
Had Cummares in Murphysboro tonight and it left me wanting to return. Food is cooked hot and fresh to order, great flavor,and servings. We all had some to bring home! My husband had the bolagnaise, the baby had chicken and fries and I had the extremely yummy cheese tortellini with Alfredo sauce. Cannot wait to return
A quaint family owned Italian joint with pizza’s and creative pasta dishes. The stuffed shells Florentine with both white and red sauce was the winner at our table. They have a lunch buffet 11-1 for 11$ with a variety of pizzas, a couple of pasta dishes, salad and garlic bread. The marinara sauce is exceptionally flavorful and delicious. Service was …
Lunch buffet was excellent. Serving several different types of pizza, ravioli, salad, garlic bread, and dessert pizza. Well worth the $11.99. Sorry no photos. Too busy eating like a little piggy. lol
Fantastic little place.. delicious food.. Would advise a reservation.
