Huge potential restaurant for the Ames Iowa scene. Our server was a bit inexperienced with dinner service but everything was delivered perfectly. (Might need more practice opening wine bottles lol). We had several appetizers and different entrées. Cheese plate and meatballs were tops on appetizers, and meatballs were fantastic. Use those for pastas ❤️. Risotto was top, and any pasta add a protein as they can be on the small portion entrée. The ambiance is great, with good location and easy parking. The chef can increase the seasoning and salt on pasta water. Pastas are homemade, so expectation is set high. Overall, it has a huge potential, keep improving and dare to make changes. Great cocktails. Desserts were excellent too. Tops were pannacota and olive oil w mascarpone cake. We will be back when in Ames!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Bria Holthe
Service was good but the food was not. The cacio e pepe didn’t have a speck of pepper in it……. very weird.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Maggie Barbour
Cold soup. Asked to have it reheated. Still not hot. Place has changed. We used to love this spot. Very disappointing.
Food: 1
Elise Katherine
We love the menu and the outside seating!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Berry and Marscopone Crepe, Fettuccine
Katie Clausman
I loved the outdoor seating and how easy it was to chat with my friends for a couple hours over lunch. I would definitely go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Camille S
We love stopping here for dinner or brunch when visiting Ames. Coming from Chicago the service and quality far exceeds some of the most popular places in the city. We had Mother’s Day brunch with Maddie as our server and she was a gem! Even tho she was also attending to a much larger party than ours we got our food quickly and never felt ignored! Even the host was so sweet when we entered. Overall an awesome place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Berry and Marscopone Crepe, Ham Egg and Gruyere Croissant, Fruit Plate, Daily Soup
Eliana Mazur R.
Pro: good food, coffee, cocktails, and atmosphereCon: portion size not for the hungry, slightly high priceIt's cool go. They're nice and the food is good. Just eat some toast beforehand.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Liviana Cain
Nice atmosphere. You need to pay for parking. Really bad service. We waited for very long to get our order in, the server was very slow, took very long to get our food, the other servers were all at the bar eating their food whilst a server was drinking when we and other customers were waiting to get their orders in.The table and floors were dirty, the coffee was cold, and the food had no taste, the fettuccine pasta was really bad and the meatball rigatoni tasted like they mixed canned tomato puree in the pasta.The food was very bad overall and it was very expensive too. 30 to 50 per person with one meal each and one drink, no desert included.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Cynthia Gordon
Favorite place to dine in Ames! The Nutella Crepe for dessert is an added bonus!
We came here for late lunch, party of 5, not too bad of a wait for a table. From there everything went downhill. It took over 10 minutes to get menus, then another 10 minutes for our server to take our order. I selected this restaurant based on the Yelp reviews and the menu items. Keep in mind they offer different dishes between lunch and dinner, which is fine, but the menu today was significantly limited as compared to what was shown on their website for lunch. Our party ordered grilled bread, breakfast croissant, turkey avocado sandwich, rigatoni, farm vegetable salad and tomato bisque soup. All were simply "ok". The soup came after all the entrees were served, presumably because they had to make another pot. But when I got the soup, it was lukewarm at best. I'll never return.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Kalen Mosley
I love coming here by myself for a morning coffee and I bring a book. When I come with friends it’s fun
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Juan Steibel
We enjoyed a variety of appetizers on the front patio in campustown, Ames. Antipasti and cheese plate were excellent. Great service. Reasonable prices.
Huge potential restaurant for the Ames Iowa scene. Our server was a bit inexperienced with dinner service but everything was delivered perfectly. (Might need more practice opening wine bottles lol).
We had several appetizers and different entrées. Cheese plate and meatballs were tops on appetizers, and meatballs were fantastic. Use those for pastas ❤️. Risotto was top, and any pasta add a protein as they can be on the small portion entrée.
The ambiance is great, with good location and easy parking. The chef can increase the seasoning and salt on pasta water. Pastas are homemade, so expectation is set high.
Overall, it has a huge potential, keep improving and dare to make changes. Great cocktails. Desserts were excellent too. Tops were pannacota and olive oil w mascarpone cake.
We will be back when in Ames!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Service was good but the food was not. The cacio e pepe didn’t have a speck of pepper in it……. very weird.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Cold soup. Asked to have it reheated. Still not hot. Place has changed. We used to love this spot. Very disappointing.
Food: 1
We love the menu and the outside seating!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Berry and Marscopone Crepe, Fettuccine
I loved the outdoor seating and how easy it was to chat with my friends for a couple hours over lunch. I would definitely go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
We love stopping here for dinner or brunch when visiting Ames. Coming from Chicago the service and quality far exceeds some of the most popular places in the city. We had Mother’s Day brunch with Maddie as our server and she was a gem! Even tho she was also attending to a much larger party than ours we got our food quickly and never felt ignored! Even the host was so sweet when we entered. Overall an awesome place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Berry and Marscopone Crepe, Ham Egg and Gruyere Croissant, Fruit Plate, Daily Soup
Pro: good food, coffee, cocktails, and atmosphereCon: portion size not for the hungry, slightly high priceIt's cool go. They're nice and the food is good. Just eat some toast beforehand.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Nice atmosphere. You need to pay for parking. Really bad service. We waited for very long to get our order in, the server was very slow, took very long to get our food, the other servers were all at the bar eating their food whilst a server was drinking when we and other customers were waiting to get their orders in.The table and floors were dirty, the coffee was cold, and the food had no taste, the fettuccine pasta was really bad and the meatball rigatoni tasted like they mixed canned tomato puree in the pasta.The food was very bad overall and it was very expensive too. 30 to 50 per person with one meal each and one drink, no desert included.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Favorite place to dine in Ames! The Nutella Crepe for dessert is an added bonus!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
A most comfortable evening Great atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
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Excellent Tapas!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We came here for late lunch, party of 5, not too bad of a wait for a table. From there everything went downhill. It took over 10 minutes to get menus, then another 10 minutes for our server to take our order. I selected this restaurant based on the Yelp reviews and the menu items. Keep in mind they offer different dishes between lunch and dinner, which is fine, but the menu today was significantly limited as compared to what was shown on their website for lunch. Our party ordered grilled bread, breakfast croissant, turkey avocado sandwich, rigatoni, farm vegetable salad and tomato bisque soup. All were simply "ok". The soup came after all the entrees were served, presumably because they had to make another pot. But when I got the soup, it was lukewarm at best. I'll never return.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
I love coming here by myself for a morning coffee and I bring a book. When I come with friends it’s fun
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We enjoyed a variety of appetizers on the front patio in campustown, Ames. Antipasti and cheese plate were excellent. Great service. Reasonable prices.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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