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Rudy's Drive In Restaurant

1004 La Crosse St, La Crosse, WI 54601-3418
608-782-2200
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Ranked #9 of 83 restaurants in La Crosse
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- Mar 21, 2013
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Onalaska, Wisconsin
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23 reviews 23 reviews
21 restaurant reviews
4 helpful votes 4 helpful votes
4 of 5 stars Reviewed March 21, 2013

Car hops on roller skates, poodle skirts, burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes and Rudy's root beer. Brings me back to the sixties. Try the bison burger!

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Mankato, Minnesota
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7 reviews 7 reviews
5 restaurant reviews
1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
5 of 5 stars Reviewed March 13, 2013

Hands down one of the best places to eat in La Crosse. Great food for a cheap price! Services is great nothing can go wrong with this place

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Tomah
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13 reviews 13 reviews
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed January 29, 2013

Good food, service from friendly girls on roller skates. Kind of cool to take the kids and show them how things were long ago.

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5 of 5 stars Reviewed December 11, 2012 via mobile

I've been eating at Rudy's since I was a kid and I love bringing my own kids here! Best drive in resturant!!! We love the rootbeer, onion rings & corn dogs!

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La Crosse, Wisconsin
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed December 11, 2012

This place has great food!!! Very fun place to visit in the summer! Drive up to a menu in your car and order. Fun waitresses roller blade up to your window and give you your food on a tray. Great root beer here too. Feel like you're in the 50's and 60's.

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Greendale, Wisconsin
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6 helpful votes 6 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed September 4, 2012

You can eat in your car, at the picnic tables or inside. Our waitress rolled up to us on her skates, took our order, and quite quickly returned with our food. She suggested a quart of rootbeer rtaher than a few small glasses, which was a great tip (more soda, less cost!). Root beer was really good. Reasonable prices for... More

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Onalaska, Wisconsin
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed July 26, 2012

Rudy's Drive Inn in La Crosse WI is a fun place to eat outside on the picnic tables or inside in the booths. You can also get served in your car by rollerskating waitstaff. The food is good American style Drive Inn with the root beer that is very tasty. Always a request from our grandchildren when they are visiting.... More

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La Crescent, MN
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21 reviews 21 reviews
15 restaurant reviews
4 helpful votes 4 helpful votes
4 of 5 stars Reviewed July 7, 2012

The best Chili Dogs and frosty Root Beer in the entire state. Locally owned so its not a franchise restaurant. Best looking watresses on roller skates.

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Onalaska
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17 reviews 17 reviews
7 restaurant reviews
4 helpful votes 4 helpful votes
4 of 5 stars Reviewed July 1, 2012

Took the Grand Kids to Rudy's for lunch yesterday, Food was great, service was fair (the order came out wrong). We ate in the car and had the experience of a rude, overly loud individual next to us. I tried to carry on a conversation in our car with the kids and could hardly hear them over the person next... More

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De Pere, Wisconsin
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed June 29, 2012

Rudy's is fun La Crosse classic. Order in your car and the servers rollerskate over with you food. Most people eat in their car, but there are a few picnic tables. Reasonable prices, pretty standard burger, fries and rootbeer menu. Not too typical for La Crosse but they do have buffalo burgers. Yum!

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