Stars View Restaurant opens in former Rudy's space

By David Nordby

The Brillion News

A full version of this article appears in the Dec. 18, 2025, print edition of The Brillion News.

BRILLION – Food is being served at 117 West Ryan Street in Brillion again.

Stars View Restaurant officially opened on Tuesday, filling the former space that

had long occupied Rudy’s Diner.

“We are friendly people … We’re going to treat people like it’s their house,” owner

Juan Vera said.

The opening of Stars View Restaurant came together in less than two months.

“I like the location. To be honest, I like the town very much. I checked the town

around it and I like it,” Vera, an Appleton resident said. “It’s a good place to work.

I think we’ll like it here. I think we can do well here.”

Vera, 54, has a lot of restaurant experience. He started cooking in 1990 and has

worked in restaurants since, including previously operating a restaurant in

Clintonville.

The new menu in Brillion will be a wide variety, Vera says, with American,

Mexican and Italian options. It will include everything from pancakes and

omelets to pastas and fajitas.

“A little of everything,” Vera said.

The main focus to start will be breakfast. The restaurant will open every day at 6

a.m. and be open until 8 p.m., except on Sundays when they plan to close at 3

p.m.

Vera says he hopes to attract area workers from different time shifts and all ages

to the restaurant.

There was expansive cleaning and repairs that Vera needed to open the space

before the end of the year.

“It was a little bit tough,” Vera said.

It’s been months of uncertainty for the building. Long known as Rudy’s, a staple

of Brillion, Maxine Charney sold the restaurant and nearby house earlier this

year. After an initial sale fell through, she sold it to Diablo’s Taqueria owner

Alejandro Morales. Charney’s last day of operating Rudy’s was July 6.

Morales planned to open a Diablo’s location by the end of the year or in early

2026. Morales’ original plan would have included late night options, but those

plans changed. That’s when Morales called Vera.

Vera says he knows the building has a lot of history.

“That makes me feel good,” Vera said. “The way that the people explain … the

experience that they have coming here for years and what they think about the

people that (were) here before. A lot of people talk nice about it.”