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    McAlister's Deli

    4.2 (15 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
    Updated 2 months ago

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    2 months ago

    Great food and good service. Their baked potatoes are epic! Very clean and staff was super!

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    1 year ago

    Great food! Love everything on the menu. Wished had breakfast to try. Need one in Ankeny. Fantastic service!

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    2 years ago

    Great staff that was friendly and efficient. Food was similarly good to the other location I have been to.

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    3 years ago

    Great food, staff, and atmosphere! Had the choose two: Club and Savannah Chopped salad. Love this place!

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    2 years ago

    Wonderful variety. Numerous options which allows variety in choices. Soup, potatoes, sandwiches etc.

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    I got a grilled chicken caesar wrap which I thought tasted pretty good.

    $12.19 Grilled Chicken

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    Ruby Tuesday

    Ruby Tuesday

    2.9(104 reviews)
    3.2 mi
    $$

    Excellent salad bar, and a very decent menu to choose from our food was very good. Service was good…read moreas well.

    Monday evening. Did a random search of Monday evening deals. This one happen to pop up…read more *Learned from the waitress that the website deals may not match the menus, so go prepared. Arrived around 5:00, plenty of parking. Walked in. Seated right away with no wait. Hostess seemed shy, but friendly. Tamera was our waitress. She was by our booth right away. Smiles and star stickers on her face. Made us smile. She may have been still learning the menu a little, but she brought us our drinks right away and gave us time to review the menu. My back was to restrooms. The bar was over to my left and we were surrounded by TVs in this section. Every TV had something different on it. When she returned we explained we had seen the Monday burger deal online and Tamera knew what we were talking about. She let us know what was included. A trip to the "garden bar" , a smash burger, and fries or tots. The smash burger started at a basic price and if you get fancier or add more meat the price increased a little. I ordered the Gauc Smash burger. (It came as a double, but I should have only asked for 1 patty.) I asked for fries. Hubby ordered the Mushroom Swiss Smash burger and tots. She let us know how to get to the salad bar and went to put in our order. The "garden bar" was bigger than expected. It had couple options of lettuce, the lots of veggies to choose from. They included a ton of topping choices and some summer salads. There was a list with all the calories labeled. I smiled at the extra work someone went to do that. Lots of salad dressings to finish off your salad. We enjoyed our salad. The burgers were brought out shortly. The presentation of the food was on point. Nicely stacked burger looked really good. The burgers tasted good. Hit the spot. We haven't had a smash burger in a long time, but I really enjoyed the crispiness that you get from it. I didnt love my fries, but just wasn't enjoying the flavor. Nothing wrong with them. Stole a tot from the hubby and they were fried nice and crisp. Tamera checked on us as we ate. She did a good job. The food deal that night was worth the visit. Not including tip the meal was under $25 for 2 adults. That is pretty good now a days. We got the check after completing our meals. Tamera said her goodbyes and kept helping the other tables. Well keep this stop in mind as we had a pleasant experience. Other reviews throwing shade, but maybe they are turning things around?

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    Garden bar

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    Charlotte’s Kitchen - Queso chicken

    Charlotte’s Kitchen

    4.7(111 reviews)
    3.9 mi
    $$

    Ordered the #5 char's bowl with Mac and cheese and the #6 chicken tenders. The breading is pretty…read moregood, I really liked their seasoning. Everything looked fresh and the tenders were hot. It's a local fast food vibe and everything tasted good. I definitely need to try their shakes next time.

    I was in the area for meetings and next thing I knew it was 2 pm and I was starving. Glad I…read morestumbled on Charlotte's! I have eaten a lot of chicken sandwiches over the years, but this just is different. Better. So many places serve chicken sandwiches, but this wasn't just a quick bit. It was uniquely flavorful in a category that can be really blah. I looked at the options and decided to do something I hadn't even thought about before -- a chicken sandwich named the Crab Rangoon? Uh, what? It was a great chicken breast hot, juicy, etc BUT something about sweet chili sauce and crisply won tons just makes it a different experience. So yummy! And everything about it screamed FRESHNESS!!! I thought I'd try the mac and cheese and it's good. Really good for a drive through (I was headed an hour or so north so I ate a bit and kept running). The patio looked nice. The service was pretty fast and they were nice. The sign in the window of the drive through made me chuckle cause it was the week of the intrastate rivalry football game. Stumbled on it while traveling but this is a place I would 100 percent seek out if I wanted a quick bite in the area.

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    Charlotte’s Kitchen - Inside dining area with locally-made tables

    Inside dining area with locally-made tables

    Charlotte’s Kitchen - The special of the night was a queso cheese chicken. Dragging cheese balls through the queso before taking this picture

    The special of the night was a queso cheese chicken. Dragging cheese balls through the queso before taking this picture

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    F & O's - Felix and Oscar's - The Meat Deep Dish Pizza

    F & O's - Felix and Oscar's

    3.4(197 reviews)
    5.2 mi
    $$

    Best Pizza in DesMoines area for a deep dish never tried anything else because just love the pizzaread more

    Staff was insulting. After waiting an hour and still not served, we decided to change our mind and…read morego somewhere else. Staff was hostile and abusive to me and my wife all the way out the door. I was outside while my wife stayed at the front desk to try to smooth things over, and the staff yelled at me outside, on the public street, threatening me and my wife who was still inside. I insisted on collecting my wife and leaving. All I asked was an acknowledgement that the staff was out of line escalating the situation when we were trying to leave peaceably and had already exited the door. I tried calling after we left to at least collect a simple courteous explanation, but the staff yelled at me and hung up three times. Then the restaurant owner called me, and boy can I tell where the problem is! He also yelled at me and threatened me for nothing while claiming I'd attempted to assault his staff. I never even raised my voice, never got a word in edgewise. Currently the owner is on social media trying to slander me. He keeps changing his story too, saying I assaulted first the hostess and then the server. Video footage is on my side and will be subpoenaed as evidence if necessary. Since the entire staff wants to keep escalating and escalating this situation all night long and into morning, I'm fighting back. I was insulted, harassed, and discriminated against, just because I tried to eat dinner. All Felix and Oscars' owner need do is simply apologize and I'd consider the matter settled.

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    F & O's - Felix and Oscar's - Beer selection

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    Large pepperoni and mushroom cheese topper pizza.

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    Maid-Rite - Des Moines - Cheese rite combo and a chili cheese rite.

    Maid-Rite - Des Moines

    4.3(8 reviews)
    5.2 mi

    This Maid-Rite recently made the news on KCCI and has been all over social media. This is the last…read moreMaid-Rite in Des Moines. The business has seen a substantial decrease in sales since the pandemic and have been struggling with the construction in the area affecting customer traffic. I'm not really sure I can say anymore than what has already been said by so many others recently... So I'm going to keep this relatively short. I went with a cheese rite with everything in a basket with fries and a drink (Pepsi products) and a plain chili cheese rite... Support local! It's an easy thing to do when a place serves good food and has a great staff... Brian and his team are personable and do a wonderful job at the counter and in their kitchen. Maid-Rite sandwiches are nostalgic for me and evergreen in that the first one I had was probably close to 50 years ago... And I still enjoy them today. And a fun fact. As much as I enjoy a breaded pork tenderloin (which Maid-Rite also serves)... Loose meat sandwiches are the official state sandwich Iowa is known for. Google it. Grab a Maid-Rite sandwich! Whatever combination floats your boat... And then come back to MHM to support Brenda at Vietnam Cafe and Tamales Industry too! https://www.facebook.com/maidritemhm?mibextid=LQQJ4d

    When I was growing up in Iowa these were in many places. I found this one location on a recent…read moretrip to Des Moins. It was in a run down mall so not much of the look I remember. The maid rite burger with cheese was about like I remember which was good. The help was good as well.

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    Maid-Rite - Des Moines - Store front.

    Store front.

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    Cheese rite combo and a chili cheese rite.

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