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    3.8 (14 reviews)
    Closed 4:00 pm - 11:00 PM

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    Gruyère stuffed Wagyu hamburger
    Cheryl S.

    Had an amazing Gruyère stuffed Wagyu hamburger with great fries! Would highly recommend.

    Iowa Gold
    Trixie T.

    Party of 3, Saturday before Easter 4:15pm. We opted for an early dinner, in case it got crowded. I ate the Iowa Gold Burger. Hands down, the best burger I've ever eaten in my life. Jalapeño ranch for the second best fries in my life. Beautiful bar and dining room. It was pretty quiet when we arrived, only one other table. This is a hidden gem in Iowa. It was a little hard to find. We parked in the parking ramp. Walked through the front doors, to the left is Wilder, to the right is a completely different food establishment. Server was fantastic, made sure we had cold water and consistently checked on our table.

    Graduate Burger
    Erin H.

    One of the best burgers I've had in a while. Will be back here anytime I'm in Iowa City! Staff was so kind and welcoming!

    Horrible experience for all 3 of us. Tiny menu but the waitress still couldn't answer simple questions about it. Food was mediocre and overpriced. When I asked about putting a different cheese on a burger I was told the chef would have a fit if asked for a different cheese. No option to get your burger cooked they way you want it. "It will be cooked to temperature." Their drink menu has "CANDY IS DANDY, BUT LIQUOR IS QUICKER" on it. I can't be the only one that finds this offensive. They want to make people think they are a high end restaurant, but put this on their menu. Really? They put their non-alcoholic drinks on the same page that is labeled "Cocktails" under the sub heading "School Nights". Apparently adding "Non-alcoholic" after their fufu name was too much work for them. Lots of options in Iowa City area to get better food and better service for less money. We were there at dinner time on a Saturday night. The place was 80-90% empty. We should have taken that as a sign and not sat down.

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    Food was excellent but we had a party of 6 so service fee was already included so we had to ask for our waitress the entire night.

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    Don't come thirsty. Nobody will ever notice your empty drink cup. Good location. Good food.

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    Great food, smart and fun setting, and the service was super fun and attentive. Kudos to Shea the waitress!

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    The Black Angel - Bar / dining

    The Black Angel

    4.7(31 reviews)
    0.4 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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