Big Kel's was a great spot for those staying in/around the Horseshoe area. Walkable (and essentially shares a parking lot) with Courtyard, Bass Pro Shop's, and Springhill Suites. Didn't have to wait at all for a table, and they have plenty of TVs to keep up with the latest sporting events. Staff was very friendly and offered some great selections, both on the food menu and bar pairings. Favorite was the Hangover burger with the sweet potato fries (~$12-15), and can't go wrong with the sizeable portions. Would definitely order that again, but also would like to try some of the other mentioned items and great photos of the wings/pizza. Look forward to stopping in again next time I'm in town! read more

Came in with a large group and had a good meal. Good for family's and a good amount of options. I really liked the wings and fried then grilled. Onion rings are a bit too big for my liking. read more

Here I was on a random Thursday night and I suddenly got a craving for a sloppy Joe. Not many places sell sloppy joes so when I searched for one near me this is what came up. Even though this place is called Pizza & Wings I ordered two things that were neither pizza nor wings, and they were both really good. Sloppy Joe you can request to have a fried egg on top and the fries were crispy and good too. Lasagna was pretty small portion honestly but it was tasty and exceeded my expectations for what I wanted. Last second I decided to try a strawberry lemonade too and oh my god it was delicious! They serve the drinks with the small what I call sonic like ice and it makes everything taste so much better in general but truly it was so refreshing. I would for sure come back and recommend this place. Maybe next time I'll try an actual pizza. read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - Kelly's Sloppy Joe - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

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Had another birdie drop in my DM's, who had an EXCELLENT memory, that I adored a similar restaurants 1/2 priced select apps on Wednesday... That said, Big Kels ALSO, has 1/2 priced select apps on Wednesdays (today, DAY 1!). Her memory didn't disappoint! FIRSTLY lemme just say, that I was THAT guest (inadvertently) who showed up 17mins before the grill closed ‍ and I am forever sorry. I felt so damn bad for not even *realizing* that grills close generally an hour before the business does. I knew and KNOW that, but it's been a day But anyways! God bless a forgiving waitress. SO... that being said, and totally my fault... I treated myself to their Exotic French Martini Grabbed the Italian Nachos (yes, quite similar!), Ravioli, and Meatballs. Everything but the Ravioli was on their 1/2 priced select apps. Oh man... there's just something about those airy AF chips, covered in peps, cheese, meat, and pepperoncinis. Served with side of marinara sauce. Those meatballs... served with two light, airy and crunchy pieces of dipping bread to sop up all that sauce! However, for the moment, the ravioli stole the show. Just something about a cold, rainy night and a take on simple eats; but with the Big Kels twist! A little hard to find - for me anyways - but there's two entrances, a fabulous game area on the East Sides To-Go door, very eclectic decor (as you'll see in the pics), and a GREAT space for LARGE get together. read more

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Not good...took forever for service, we got a few different things to try...the onion rings looked soooo impressive and I want to luv them so badly but I got a shot of grease with every bite, so those were ruined, the pizza, no flavor really....i had boneless wings, they were edible, nothing I'd write home about...I'm not a complainer, I look forward to eating a meal out, it was just a very big disappointment after I heard such good things about it read more

Our family of 4 was staying in a hotel nearby and needed supper beyond fast food. Big Kels offered pizza for the kiddos ( not a premade crust!) great wings ( Hubby was impressed) and a gigantic Cobb Salad for me with all the fixins. We called in our carry out order and they had it ready in 20 mins! It was packaged up nicely for our walk back to the hotel and had paper plates, parmesan, red pepper flakes, plastic ware included. Everyone was pleased and we will definitely order again when in the area! read more

Expected to be busy on a Saturday with event at MAC but place was pretty dead. Service was slow, waited about 10 minutes before they took our drink order. Food is meh, pizza had nearly no sauce and had to been under the warmer for awhile as it was dry. Chicken strips had to been cooked in really old oil, just not good overall. read more

Pretty dang expensive for not amazing food. Service was eh. Miss when it was Famous Daves.

good good good best kept secret locals dont know about. hidden gem by cah kah belas cheese burger n apple pie almode

It's ok. Didn't care for the wings. Meatballs were hammy tasting. Therefore the food wasn't very good. Only one beer on tap we liked. Good thing the bartender provided exceptional service. Probably won't return. read more

I'm from out of town and I came here 5 days in a row! The Char-buff wings are awesome. They fry the wings, sauce them up, THEN throw them on the grill!! Get the rosemary sweet chili Crazy good! Good deals for beer during happy hour. They make all of their sauces in house, so you can't really go wrong. Their onion rings and buffalo pizza is fire as fu*k! You should definitely eat here. Also, Rachel rules read more

We were pleased that this place was open. We wanted to visit the brewery next door but they were packed way more than I'd liked during a pandemic. We walked right over here and hubby wanted their pizza. The place is colorful, lots of tvs, bar like atmosphere. A giant portrait of the guy who the restaurant is named for is on the wall. Just lots of loud decorations on the walls. A game room could be seen from out table. The waitress was prompt, all the staff were kind and busy. Our pizza seemed to take awhile but came out hot and good. I enjoyed the crust and crispy bacon on the chicken pizza. read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - Buffalo Chicken Pizza. The white you see is a cheese sauce. I little different than he was used to, but good. - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

Pathetic. Sat at the bar for 20min before it was acknowledged that I exist. Then ordered a drink and the lady I ordered from disappeared. Then I'm guessing the manager took her place but didn't care about the customers. Then they got my food wrong. Like they had planned to do a bad job all along. I had to start asking random staff for things like napkins or a plate. $30 meal the lady wanted a $10 tip. They ignored me, got my order wrong, and made me take care of my own access to napkins, plate, and never got silverware. When new customers arrived the staff was missing and the customers would treat me like I worked there since I was the only person in the restaurant at the time other than a couple near empty tables. You would think a full staff and a couple customers the service would be amazing. It was awful and embarrassing. Then like a beggar they want a 30% tip. It's like the military and government, they failed and want more money. I'm the easiest person to deal with and I'm calm and generous. But why should I pay tip. What did they do right? Oh, they took the money and counted it. Other than that they couldn't get anything else correct. I had to ask a random waitress that had nothing to do with my meal to help me get stuff. Thank god she was there working or the rest of the staff would've pretended I didn't exist. I have a solution. No more paying for food that is wrong. I've worked in restaurants for years. If we messed up your meal we took it off the ticket. It was our mistake. These post covid managers are like military, they fail and blame you and tell you to suffer the consequences of their failure and they want a 30% tip for doing a bad job at their most basic of tasks. I regularly tip 50-100% so if you did such a bad job I left you $1. I hope it teaches you to be more respectful and learn how to retain customers instead of pushing them away because you've been trained by a brotherhood that abuses kids for money. Maybe you should get training from someone who is not military so you don't act like entitled pedophile predators and instead work hard and focus on the most simple things like acknowledging that cashing out your register at 8pm when you close at 11pm is a bad look. Clearly you can't do both customer service and cashing out tips. With such an inefficient and incompetent system it's not a surprise that treating people human must be a thing of the past. But you did pay taxes to fund predators diddling kids so it makes sense that you don't view people as actual humans. Geezus if I do my job wrong I could accidentally poison and kill people. Wait as a restaurant if you do your job wrong you poison and kill people. And yet you can't get an order correct, but You suggest tips of 18, 20, and 25%. You should suggest 0% , 1% and apologize for asking for more. Your $25 pizza had about $1 worth of chicken on it. You put more onions on my pizza than chicken out of spite or some weird pedophile gang malice. At this point I have to assume all restaurants after Covid were taken over by military pedophile brotherhoods. Too many coincidences at this point. They all act like line cook Chris the coke head predator that jumps around to different restaurants so he can get access to poor waitresses with kids. The government has a multibillion dollar business buying and selling people. Restaurants are hubs for these predators. It's like fight club but instead of beating on dudes they harm kids. That's your military brotherhood they call each other BRO. It's how you know they are part of the cult of abuse. SAPR.miL that's the official government website where your rapists brag about their crimes and you pay $200million in taxes each year for them to brag about their criminal activities. For me 1 rape is too many. But apparently for America it takes 10,000 rapes for you to be a hero and get parades and a 20% discount. You should learn what a real man is because you worship pedophiles and rapists as your government and community leaders. I hope you enjoy all the weird pedophiles that are now going to come to your restaurant because it's clearly a safe space for abuse and neglect. read more

Family friendly, reasonable and services groups! For the kids they have games and adults a brewery as a neighbor;) read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - BBQ chicken pizza and Italian nachos - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

Ordered a pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Arrived shortly after 9pm with a 10pm closing. Lots of staff and they were pleasant. The pizza was covered sparsely with toppings on a thin crust. Cute restaurant. Pretty average at a $24 cost for a medium. read more

We stopped in here on Sunday for lunch. The service was alright. The gal was very friendly and she was doing well. But for the size of our party I feel like she could of used a partner. The food wasn't all that great, it was just okay. My daughter got Mac'n cheese and a fruit bowl. I guess I was expecting better mac, it was like microwaved Kraft. Even the fruit bowl looked sad haha. I tried the street taco pizza, it wasn't my favorite either. The meat was tough and the pizza needed some sort of sauce on it. The pizza crust was tasty. But the pizza itself was just missing something. We tried a side of fries to share too, they were super soggy and over saturated in grease. We got some appetizers too. Cheese curds and onion rings. The curds were great. The onion rings were definitely some onion rings. Haha things were huge ! But weren't really for me. Overall, wasn't the best experience. Don't think I'll be trying it again read more

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I've eaten here several times since my first visit and the food and service have always been top notch. I've had the onion rings several times and they are consistently great. On my recent visit, I tried the rosemary sweet chili wings and they were really good. Big Kel's is a great local restaurant! read more

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Had meatballs - 3+. Good but not great. Liked they came with mozzarella which made above them average Mozzarella pizza - chunky tomatoes, good cheese, spices. read more

Open to 11 is a lie. Called them from utah because we had a road trip and was planning to stop there for food after they said they were open to 11. Soon later we got there around 9:45 and they werent open so thanks for your customer service and showing that you were closed. 0 stars if i could read more

We had a pretty mediocre visit. We visited some friends for the church in West CB and they asked if we wanted to get Quaker Steak & Lube for lunch but it was unfortunately closed! We drove down the road and walked in here. We sat right away at around 11:00 on a Sunday which was great. Our server was very quick at the very beginning and then lacked attentiveness for the rest of our time there. Maybe she was slammed with tables, but we felt pretty neglected and our party of four was there for over two hours. Although we enjoyed the time with the other couple, it just kinda stunk to be there for so long. I ordered the parmesan boneless wings and it was not near enough. Small wings and a small portion. I ate more lunch when we got home! My wife ordered a personal pizza. It was good and I snagged a few slices of hers. I wish the service had been better and I would not order the same thing if we ever pop in here again. read more

Salad to go was decent, but was accompanied by only a plastic "spork". I was staying in a hotel nearby without another other utensils around - nearly impossible to eat. :/ read more

We were highly recommended by the hotel staff where we stayed. We were expecting higher expectations during the Covid outbreak! None of the employees were wearing masks or gloves while handling the silverware , food was terrible!!!! We had take out and our salad was wilted and soggy and the wings had no sauce. It was supposed to be buffalo chicken wings. I would NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE! read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - No sauce. We had take out! - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

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Came over cheer competition weekend, place was packed. Got seated and served relatively fast. Nachos: 5/5 fantastic, wonton chips were fresh and dish was hot. Lists of cheese and toppings. Better than expected. Bbq chicken pizza: 2/5 generic crust that was total let down, not great. Toppings were good. Overall disappointing. Charred wings: 5/5 Amazing wings. My favorite wings I can remember having. They were hot and crunchy and the grill flavor was fantastic. I might come back tomorrow for more. read more

Great apps & pizza & wings! Recommend the Street Taco Pizza! They are still working on their bottled selection(hard cider is my drink of choice). Large dining area. We all had a blast! read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - Street Taco pizza(in middle). Blanco with chicken(bottom right). Wings and an all meat pizza! - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

Ordered delivery (through Grubhub) of charbuff wings and a BBQ chicken pizza. The pizza was good with the cilantro adding that extra taste to it. The charbuff wings are not your normal saucy wings. These are dry with some great taste. read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

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We were in for the Gender reveal and had supper while we were there. The Char-buff wings were a 10 out of 10, Salty Dog set the bar high but have to say Big Kel's beat them this round !! The wife had chicken pasta and daughter had burger and waffle fries!! All very good but plenty of food, took home left overs . Strongly recommend giving this a try !! Cold beer and refreshing drinks .. read more

I really enjoyed the food! We were at full fledge brewery next door and saw that they run the food over from big kel's so we decided to order. I got the lasagna grilled cheese with waffle fries - the sandwich itself was VERY good, it was exactly how I would imagine. My bf got the juicy Lucy burger - he really enjoyed it! The portions were so huge I ate barely half of my sandwich and was stuffed. We also got cheese curds but neither of us were big fans, not bad, just wouldn't order them again. If you're looking for some greasy food to enjoy with beers next door I definitely recommend. I didn't actually go into the restaurant but I noticed the person running the food wasn't wearing a mask, that would be my only concern. read more

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We came in and sat down, they took our drink order and brought the drinks. after that it took us around 20-30 minutes before walking out because nobody came to ask us what we wanted. keep in mind that this place was not busy at all. Nobody besides our table was there in the lobby. read more

This place is awesome Big place good food has a bar !!! Would def come back hope they stay around !!! read more

Excellent service, great food and right by the Iowa West Fieldhouse, so perfect to grab a bite and a beer between games!

Quite disappointed Ordered a small 3 meat pizza and Cobb salad The pizza was strange Pepperoni, sausage and gr beef Decided that the gr beef was not what we wanted on a pizza so asked to replace it with more sausage Learned that sausage her is more like gr beef with parsley, did not taste like sausage. We also learned when we got the bill that the change cost $2 more Service was not great, lately we give a wide view due to lack of people but there was plenty of staff working so this was not the issue. Overall the crust was good, sauce tasted like from a can. Would not recommend read more

Great food and service. My favorite was the Mac Kelly burger. Great musics and vibe of the place. read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - Mac Kelly Burger - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

Ordered a pizza for delivery tonight. Decided to try out the Blanco with chicken added on. It was very good and the chicken added some necessary protein to it. read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

This new restaurant is great at wings and pizza. Tonight we had a 1/2 pep 1/2 pineapple pizza. Delicious read more

Big Kel's Pizza & Wings - Pizza Near Me - Council Bluffs, Iowa

Great place with great food!! We brought a large group and it was perfect for 20 of us. Cute atmosphere too! I highly recommend!

The pizza I got tasted good until I found a hair in it. The other person in my party ate Spaghetti and meatballs. He said that tasted good. The hair turned my stomach I don't think I'll be back. read more

Ate there on a Thursday night around 6pm. Wife ordered margarita (delicious) I order old fashioned (mediocre at best). The cheese bread appetizer was phenomenal. I ordered the wings and hand cut fries my wife ordered a plain hamburger with lettuce and tomato only. Her burger arrived with cheese. it was sent back and they prepared a new one. I never did get my fries (but was not charged for them either). Good thing we are just traveling through because I will not be patronizing this estabishment again. read more

I would not come here again, but it was nice to experience. The vicinity was very homey, and cute. The food menu is very misleading. The kids spaghetti is not good at att, and the pizza is pretty mediocre. The service was nice, the waitress and hostess were good at their job. read more

Walked through the door and was told that we couldn't be served we were a party of 7 really disappointed. We were willing to wait.

Stopped in for dinner, early on a Friday 5:00 pm. Not very busy at all. Ordered an appetizer and drinks. Then ordered dinner for the three of us. Food came. Waitress finally asked if we would like another drink, said yes. She brought the drinks, asked if we needed anything else, would we like dessert and we said not at this time. Seriously we were just served our dinner. She walked away and came back 2 minutes later with our check. So no more drinks and I'm guessing we are no longer able to have dessert. Felt rushed like she didn't want to wait on us anymore than she needed to. read more