Food & drink in Palatine, IL

We read 120 businesses across 6 trades — the businesses someone searching in Palatine, IL is shown — and recorded what their Google reviews look like.

Measured 2026-09-24 from public Google listings. Ranked on reply behaviour, never on star rating.

One café turns up in three separate searches. Cafe Fourteen appears among the cafés, the coffee shops and the food trucks someone searching in Palatine, IL is shown, and in each it answered 10 of its 10 most recent reviews. Its listing holds 740 reviews in total.

Restaurants carry the highest median review count of the six food and drink trades in this section. Of the 20 restaurants we read around Palatine, the median holds 663.5 reviews and the most-reviewed holds 2,091, with a median rating of 4.6. Among them, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen answered 10 of its 10 most recent reviews and Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar answered 9 of 10. Their listings hold 1,131 and 1,241 reviews in total.

Bars sit close behind on size, with a median of 545.5 reviews, and carry a median rating of 4.4, the lowest median rating of the six trades here. Among the bars we read, Donkey Inn Bar & Grill answered 7 of its 10 most recent reviews; its listing holds 939 in total. Bakeries have the smallest median of the six, at 136 reviews. Among the bakeries we read, Village Inn (+ Bakers Square Pie) answered 10 of its 10 most recent reviews and Sweet T's Bakery & Cake Studio answered 6 of 10.

Cafés, coffee shops and food trucks each carry a median rating of 4.7, with median review counts of 284, 267.5 and 280. For comparison, the benchmark measured here puts a typical measured business at 78% of its recent reviews answered, across 50 businesses measured. In every one of these six trades, at least one business we read had answered a recent review.

What to do about it

If you run a restaurant, café, bar or bakery in this catchment, the named owners give you a concrete target. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Cafe Fourteen and Village Inn (+ Bakers Square Pie) each answered 10 of their 10 most recent reviews; Donkey Inn Bar & Grill answered 7 of 10.

Start with your own listing: open your 10 most recent reviews and count how many carry a reply from you. Then answer each new review as it comes in, the good ones and the critical ones alike, in your own words and about what the person actually wrote. Keep it short and specific, thank them for the detail they gave, and on a complaint say plainly what you are doing about it. After your next 10 reviews, count again. The review is the customer's; the reply is the part you write.

Restaurants

20 read · median 663.5 reviews · median rating 4.6

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen10 of 1011313.8
2Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar9 of 1012414.6

Cafés

20 read · median 284 reviews · median rating 4.7

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Cafe Fourteen10 of 107404.6

Coffee shops

20 read · median 267.5 reviews · median rating 4.7

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Cafe Fourteen10 of 107404.6

Bars

20 read · median 545.5 reviews · median rating 4.4

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Donkey Inn Bar & Grill7 of 109394.3

Bakeries

20 read · median 136 reviews · median rating 4.6

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Village Inn (+ Bakers Square Pie)10 of 1012964.2
2Sweet T's Bakery & Cake Studio6 of 103444.4
3Nicolette Cafe2 of 102604.7

Food trucks

20 read · median 280 reviews · median rating 4.7

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Cafe Fourteen10 of 107404.6
2Chicago Culinary Kitchen + BBQ1 of 1019074.7
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What food & drink businesses around Palatine, IL do with their reviews
TradeMedian reviewsBest answeredYou
Restaurants663.510 of 10the audit fills this in
Cafés28410 of 10the audit fills this in
Coffee shops267.510 of 10the audit fills this in
Bars545.57 of 10the audit fills this in
Bakeries13610 of 10the audit fills this in
Food trucks28010 of 10the audit fills this in
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