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    Red Ginger

    4.2 (43 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 10:30 pm

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    RED GINGER ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Classy
    Good for groups
    Happy hour specials

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    Sushi deluxe with more salmon
    Jane R.

    The fish was fresh and tasty, prices were reasonable. We got a calamari tempura and it came with three long pieces of calamari and five pieces of assorted vegetable tempura, which was unexpected. My partner got a salmon don that included some Japanese pickles on top of the rice, cucumber, carrot, and a flower. Beautiful presentation, but heads up if you are a picky eater that the pickles were touching the rice. I got the sashimi deluxe and they were willing to put a little bit extra salmon, although honestly, all of the fish was good and I'm not sure if I had a favorite! We had the banana daiquiri which was sweet and tasty, but I am definitely not picky with regard to alcoholic beverages.

    Pepper tuna

    Nice location and relaxed, great service/friendly, and wonderfully delicious food! So yummy The lychee drink was refreshing and we enjoyed the choices of rolls

    Cream cheese rangoons
    Morganne M.

    This place was awesome. The service was great and the food was amazing. Everything was priced fairly and it was a nice and quiet atmosphere. The food came out quickly and well prepared. We came on a Thursday night at like 7 pm and got seated immediately. We also got the pork gyoza which was prepared well too. We will definitely be back!

    Kani salad, cucumber salad and Miso soup
    Kenze M.

    Cucumber salad is my new favorite. It's amazing. Kani salad is also super good and was my favorite until I discovered their cucumber salad. Their miso soup is always yummy and super cheap. Love this place.

    Izac B.

    Very good sushi for the area! Right up there with Oyama! Got 4 rolls to split with my friend and they were all very very good!

    Bento
    Hilda O.

    Loved the Bento boxes. Many options to choose from. Everything was served with great presentation and it was oh so tasty!

    Bento box with rice, two rolls, and a salad
    Caroline B.

    Red Ginger has the BEST lunch deals! You can get a ton of sushi for a great price. And the food is absolutely amazing.

    Hot sake and ?
    Kevin M.

    Chose this based on Yelp reviews. Surprise bonus was that it was next door to our second destination, Big Grove Brewery. As for the location, you have to drive there if staying downtown. Yet it is worth it due to the quality of the food. I have never seen a sushi menu that separates out cooked from raw sushi. And for the first time eating out with me at sushi restaurants in the 30 years I have known my wife, she branches out from her usual tepin or tempura food and got cooked sushi. She loved it! My daughter and I are raw sushi lovers and we devoured our respective platters. Outstanding. Nice slabs of fish. Wasabi was flavorful and strong enough. We will be back. For out of towners like us, I recommend staying downtown and taking an Uber/Lyft there, eating sushi, then walking over to Big Grove to hang out. Great night. We will be back. I got hot sake to go with my sushi platter.

    Order proof

    Ordered the king crab roll.... Literally no king crab in it. It was imitation crab. It was a tiny sliver of crab. I'm so PISSSED off. I just paid 16 dollars for a shitty ass roll. Fkn BS!!! I know red ginger is probably thinking "oh he's making it up to get free shit" nah... you guys actually let me down. I wouldn't try this again even if it was free! No flavor at all on that king crab roll and the fish on top was MID!

    Basically all avocado

    Absolutely horrible wait times, don't come. We have been here for over an hour and still have yet to eat.

    Sapporo
    Angie C.

    Went for the first time with my family enjoyed it very much our waitress Jenny was extremely nice and friendly. We ordered so much good everything came at a reasonable time the kids meals came out first which we all loved. Even though the restaurant was busy our waitress still managed to we fill our refreshments and asked if we needed anything. The food was amazing I'm delicious. The pay wasn't too bad at all. There is enough parking. The only thing I didn't like was that they're single bathrooms so you do have to wait other than that we will definitely go again everything was perfect

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    Vue Rooftop

    3.6
    (248 reviews)
    0.7 mi
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    I know I've had a better food experience in the past and I'd like to think that the next time I…read morecome to Vue, I'll have that again. This particular visit, not so great. My first choice off the menu ended up not being available as one of ingredients was out. So, my second choice, a chicken sandwich was just okay. While the chicken was tender, it was very salty - too salty. It needed more flavor and less salt. The fries were okay, nothing memorable and a little soggy. Our server was great and she's what made the experience enjoyable. She was really on top of it and made sure to keep our drinks full and that we had what we needed. The ambiance is pretty good at Vue; it is fun to be on the top of the hotel and see Iowa City and the University of Iowa campus down below.

    The ambiance is amazing! Large bar inside and then a wonderful outdoor patio with tv's! And the…read moreservice was great too. The food was ok but lacked flavor! We got a cheeseboard that really needed some honey or berry compute to brighten up the flavors of the cheese. And then it came with toasted baguette which typically is only slightly toasted to still give the chew of a bread. But this was toasted to the max so it was all crunch. At that point I would have rather eaten a cracker. Also, the cheese itself just wasn't anything special. Then I got a spinach salad which was really good. But I got the truffle fries that came out with ketchup so we asked for the aioli but it was SO gross! I love aioli and this was straight up mayo from a squeeze bottle with garlic. The rest of my table got salmon and they enjoyed it! We had a wonderful waiter and enjoyed the ambiance. And I think if Vue makes a few changes to their charcuterie board and gets rid of the awful aioli it will help!

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    The Fieldhouse

    2.6
    (16 reviews)
    0.8 mi
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    How do you field about this place? I'll tell you how I feeled…read more We had a lot of fun at the Fieldhouse. But who wouldn't? Definitely one of the coolest places in Iowa City to hang out with all the college kids and wild partying folks. The one problem that we had with the Fieldhouse was violence! There were some absolute punks trying to make trouble because there was the beauty queen of the century dressed like a glamour model (swoon swoon swoon), and she was with a guy that looked like a short Latin Prizefighter (as in, a mismatch to superficial types, she was a foot taller than him) and these very aggressive tall punks apparently thought she was too good for him so they tried to start a fight by touching her and making inappropriate comments and insulting her boyfriend. So I had to come in between them and I got smacked for my trouble. I helped to prevent a really bad fight and then the police showed up and they tried to arrest both the punks and the boyfriend and the hot girlfriend. So I had to explain to the police that I had no relation to any of the people in the fight and that there were really only one set of instigators and the other ones were just trying to defend themselves. And that she was molested. In the end I managed to talk everyone down with the help of my good friend the police officer and nobody got arrested but it was some really messed up stuff. The cop was either going to arrest everyone, or nobody. So it was better for everybody that nobody get arrested. You're welcome, cutie and cutie's bf. Call me. But yeah, the crowd in here - insane. Wall to wall, sea of people, like sardines. Loud and crazy. Sometimes even playing good music. Sometimes.

    On holiday from the UK but got good old American racism. Female security guard on Thursday accused…read moremy friend of harassing her and threatened to call the police because he to get in the club. He left his ID at home but had proof on his phone (several clubs let him with his ID on his phone on the same night) but not physically, he asked to teoce get in a polite and calm manner but yet she somehow, she was accusing of him of "harassing" her and threatened and to call the police for absolutely no reason. He then went home to get his ID to returned to the club, I came out to speak to him and I got kicked out for no clear reason aside from speaking to him. I had my ID, I was sober and did absolutely nothing wrong, they couldn't even justify or explain why they kicked me out. And to Make matters worse, there was this racist message In The bathroom. Living in the UK, you hear a lot about racism in the US but it's sad see it's really as racist as they say.

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    The Black Angel

    The Black Angel

    4.7
    (31 reviews)
    1.1 mi

    Went on a hopping Friday night. Given all the customers, service was good. Almost every table was…read morefull the entire time we were there. This is a sleeper of a Mexican restaurant. What I mean by that is, it does not look like a Mexican restaurant. But it EXCELS at Mexican cuisine. I highly recommend ordering anything you'd see at a Mexican restaurant. The drinks: The Blueberry Fields drink was good but pricey given the size and wasn't "blueberry" enough for my husband. I liked it, but I'd want it by the mason jar, and that would be super expensive. I had the hibiscus margarita and it was *very* enjoyable. The food: My husband had the Des Moines Po' Boy. I wish he would have realized that he was basically getting a sub. He liked the soft bread. Overall though, he wasn't impressed. He said it was kind of bland. But he loved the fries and ranch. I had the puerco en salsa verde--this dish is incredible! Really tender chunks of pork in a rich tomatillo salsa verde with beans and rice. The only thing that could be better is if there were 3 fresh corn tortillas instead of 2. There is so much rich, delicious, saucy pork to eat, that you need 3 to enjoy it all. The tortillas are fresh made too. So yummy! In summary: Go here and enjoy all the Mexican dishes!

    A warm and inviting space, with quick service and delicious food…read more It was early in the night so we had our choice of table and the attention of our server. If you are familiar with an old Iowa City bar called the mill, there are pieces of there here The food was plentiful and tasted great. I had the brisket po boy tender cooked brisket and a tasty BBQ sauce The totally was under 40 for two of us.

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