Been here twice this year. Once for Valentine's Day and the other in late March. Both times the food was incredibly salty and overpriced for what you end up with. I love salt, but holy hell, stay away from the vegetarian mains. In my opinion the Webster reeks of pretentious bs that is not backed by food. The espresso martini was the best thing I've had there. Next time I need an upscale dining experience I will make the drive up to Cobble Hill in Cedar Rapids.
Carlyn H.
The best restaurant in Iowa City and only place for really good upscale date nights if you ask me. The service is always excellent and the servers are incredibly knowledgeable about their ever changing menu!
Barb A.
Celebrated my son's birthday here and was beyond impressed. Wonderful food, attentive service and great over atmosphere. Highly recommend!
Chia Fu
The food, service, and ambiance is absolutely what makes Webster a standout in Iowa city for impressing family/friends who are visiting. They have also done some personal stuff for our birthday events as well and you can truly tell the staff are passionate about the food there and know their stuff. If there’s one place that I would recommend as a staple; this is it. My recommended dish is always the tartare, chicken, and the potato salad
Food was amazing! Chef integrates asian flavors and ingredients into classically American dishes and the result is truly delectable. The atmosphere is what you expect with fine dining -- tables spaced out, attentive wait staff, and perfectly timed delivery of your courses. Beautiful space and even more beautiful experience .
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sticky Toffee Pudding with Ice Cream
Michael Whitley
Amazing is all I can say about how delicious and beautiful the experience was The service and wine selection was stellar. Will be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Duck Egg Tagliatelle
Chris L.
Interesting menu, wine list and atmosphere. Never been asked if I had any food allergies after I had ordered! Ordered the potato salad and clam stew. Both were first-rate. Nice white wine selections by the glass that you don't often see- a Chenin Blanc and a white Rhone! I'll be back next time I'm in town.
Kelli S.
We love the Webster, always consistent, always superb. We love eating at the bar area and having Anderson as our waiter is the best. His suggestions from wine to food have always been spot on. This is a must and always ask for Anderson!
Liz E.
We celebrated my birthday here and every part of our first experience was A+++. Excellent food and wonderful service! We had the local crumb sourdough, chicory salad, duck egg tagliatelle, scallops and trout. Good portion sized and we took some home. All of the food was extremely flavorful. Very attentive wait staff and the ambiance was lovely. It was worth the trip from CR to IC for this dinner. Just wonderful!
Erica Lautner
My husband and I had a wonderful experience at the webster last night. I would highly recommend if you want a more fine dining elevated type of night out for food and/or drinks. Since it was last minute we ended up eating at the bar but it was a good experience as well. Great bar to come in for a drink and a small plate to share before venturing out in the city.We had beer and wine as our drink choices. Small plates we ordered were oysters and wagyu tartar. The large plates ordered were trout and scallops. A side of potato salad was shared as well. And for dessert the sticky toffee pudding with ice cream.Oysters were good with the apple kimchi sauce. I do prefer more of the strong lemon citrus flavors. They did state the Island creek variety oysters aren’t served around the area that they have seen. Wagyu tartar (locally sourced from Jiyu American Wagyu Farms) was great and the seasoning was nice with the cumin flavor coming out. The warm in house pita chips/bread it was served with were very tasty as well.The trout was very good and the sauce it was served with was delightful. I was craving scallops since it had been a minute so I ordered the scallops. They were cooked perfectly! The items it was served with weren’t my favorite- quinoa and escarole and were too cold for my liking. The potato salad side dish was sooo good as well. Highly recommend this one.I wanted to try the hyped up lemon curd but opted for more our style of dessert the sticky toffee pudding with ice cream and it was sooo good if you are craving the more moist and gooey style of dessert. We were sooo full but had to have the dessert.Next time perhaps we will splurge on the dry aged beef and I want to try the famous duck noodles. And the tuna or hamachi crudo.
It used to be good. Their food got so greasy that I asked the wait staff for white rice to diminish the greasiness. She said the chef said no. He won't serve me any white rice. She said, "The chef designs the course with precise ingredients." This restaurant is racist. I stopped going to the Websters.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 2
Jesse Sanford
My wife and I had such a lovely Valentine's Day dinner at The Webster. We had a 4-course meal and tried a few different cocktails which were all outstanding. It was extremely busy but our server was still very attentive.The highlights for me were the Wagyu steak and the Panna Cotta. The steak was easily the most tender and flavorful that I've had. After three courses, the Panna Cotta was a perfect way to end the meal; light and tart. The highlights for my wife were the Rock Shrimp pasta and scallops (not pictured).Looking forward to returning and trying their regular menu!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Erica L.
My husband and I had a wonderful experience at the webster last night. I would highly recommend if you want a more fine dining elevated type of night out for food and/or drinks. Since it was last minute we ended up eating at the bar but it was a good experience as well. Great bar to come in for a drink and a small plate to share before venturing out in the city. We had beer and wine as our drink choices. Small plates we ordered were oysters and wagyu tartar. The large plates ordered were trout and scallops. A side of potato salad was shared as well. And for dessert the sticky toffee pudding with ice cream. Oysters were good with the apple kimchi sauce. I do prefer more of the strong lemon citrus flavors. They did state the Island creek variety oysters aren't served around the area that they have seen. Wagyu tartar (locally sourced from Jiyu American Wagyu Farms) was great and the seasoning was nice with the cumin flavor coming out. The warm in house pita chips/bread it was served with were very tasty as well. The trout was very good and the sauce it was served with was delightful. I was craving scallops since it had been a minute so I ordered the scallops. They were cooked perfectly! The items it was served with weren't my favorite- quinoa and escarole and were too cold for my liking. The potato salad side dish was sooo good as well. Highly recommend this one. I wanted to try the hyped up lemon curd but opted for more our style of dessert the sticky toffee pudding with ice cream and it was sooo good if you are craving the more moist and gooey style of dessert. We were sooo full but had to have the dessert. The service was top notch. Next time perhaps we will splurge on the dry aged beef and I want to try the famous duck noodles. And the tuna or hamachi crudo.
Aaron H.
Great atmosphere, but honestly I came here to talk about the sea scallops and sticky toffee pudding. Seriously the best I've ever had! I involuntarily closed my eyes to savor each bite. Incredible. The wait staff was awesome as well. Perfect date night location!
Ashley P.
One of the best meals I've ever had, ever, not just in Iowa. Warm nugget potato salad side, crudo, trout, omg can't stop thinking about it and so so impressed. Not to mention the service was impeccable. And the ambience was beautiful, great lightening etc. well done!!!
Been here twice this year. Once for Valentine's Day and the other in late March. Both times the food was incredibly salty and overpriced for what you end up with. I love salt, but holy hell, stay away from the vegetarian mains. In my opinion the Webster reeks of pretentious bs that is not backed by food. The espresso martini was the best thing I've had there. Next time I need an upscale dining experience I will make the drive up to Cobble Hill in Cedar Rapids.
The best restaurant in Iowa City and only place for really good upscale date nights if you ask me. The service is always excellent and the servers are incredibly knowledgeable about their ever changing menu!
Celebrated my son's birthday here and was beyond impressed. Wonderful food, attentive service and great over atmosphere. Highly recommend!
The food, service, and ambiance is absolutely what makes Webster a standout in Iowa city for impressing family/friends who are visiting. They have also done some personal stuff for our birthday events as well and you can truly tell the staff are passionate about the food there and know their stuff. If there’s one place that I would recommend as a staple; this is it. My recommended dish is always the tartare, chicken, and the potato salad
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brussels Sprouts, Wagyu Beef Tartare, Potato Salad, Duck Egg Tagliatelle
Food was amazing! Chef integrates asian flavors and ingredients into classically American dishes and the result is truly delectable. The atmosphere is what you expect with fine dining -- tables spaced out, attentive wait staff, and perfectly timed delivery of your courses. Beautiful space and even more beautiful experience .
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sticky Toffee Pudding with Ice Cream
Amazing is all I can say about how delicious and beautiful the experience was The service and wine selection was stellar. Will be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Duck Egg Tagliatelle
Interesting menu, wine list and atmosphere. Never been asked if I had any food allergies after I had ordered! Ordered the potato salad and clam stew. Both were first-rate. Nice white wine selections by the glass that you don't often see- a Chenin Blanc and a white Rhone! I'll be back next time I'm in town.
We love the Webster, always consistent, always superb. We love eating at the bar area and having Anderson as our waiter is the best. His suggestions from wine to food have always been spot on. This is a must and always ask for Anderson!
We celebrated my birthday here and every part of our first experience was A+++. Excellent food and wonderful service! We had the local crumb sourdough, chicory salad, duck egg tagliatelle, scallops and trout. Good portion sized and we took some home. All of the food was extremely flavorful. Very attentive wait staff and the ambiance was lovely. It was worth the trip from CR to IC for this dinner. Just wonderful!
My husband and I had a wonderful experience at the webster last night. I would highly recommend if you want a more fine dining elevated type of night out for food and/or drinks. Since it was last minute we ended up eating at the bar but it was a good experience as well. Great bar to come in for a drink and a small plate to share before venturing out in the city.We had beer and wine as our drink choices. Small plates we ordered were oysters and wagyu tartar. The large plates ordered were trout and scallops. A side of potato salad was shared as well. And for dessert the sticky toffee pudding with ice cream.Oysters were good with the apple kimchi sauce. I do prefer more of the strong lemon citrus flavors. They did state the Island creek variety oysters aren’t served around the area that they have seen. Wagyu tartar (locally sourced from Jiyu American Wagyu Farms) was great and the seasoning was nice with the cumin flavor coming out. The warm in house pita chips/bread it was served with were very tasty as well.The trout was very good and the sauce it was served with was delightful. I was craving scallops since it had been a minute so I ordered the scallops. They were cooked perfectly! The items it was served with weren’t my favorite- quinoa and escarole and were too cold for my liking. The potato salad side dish was sooo good as well. Highly recommend this one.I wanted to try the hyped up lemon curd but opted for more our style of dessert the sticky toffee pudding with ice cream and it was sooo good if you are craving the more moist and gooey style of dessert. We were sooo full but had to have the dessert.Next time perhaps we will splurge on the dry aged beef and I want to try the famous duck noodles. And the tuna or hamachi crudo.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Wagyu Beef Tartare
Restaurantji Recommends
It used to be good. Their food got so greasy that I asked the wait staff for white rice to diminish the greasiness. She said the chef said no. He won't serve me any white rice. She said, "The chef designs the course with precise ingredients." This restaurant is racist. I stopped going to the Websters.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 2
My wife and I had such a lovely Valentine's Day dinner at The Webster. We had a 4-course meal and tried a few different cocktails which were all outstanding. It was extremely busy but our server was still very attentive.The highlights for me were the Wagyu steak and the Panna Cotta. The steak was easily the most tender and flavorful that I've had. After three courses, the Panna Cotta was a perfect way to end the meal; light and tart. The highlights for my wife were the Rock Shrimp pasta and scallops (not pictured).Looking forward to returning and trying their regular menu!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My husband and I had a wonderful experience at the webster last night. I would highly recommend if you want a more fine dining elevated type of night out for food and/or drinks. Since it was last minute we ended up eating at the bar but it was a good experience as well. Great bar to come in for a drink and a small plate to share before venturing out in the city. We had beer and wine as our drink choices. Small plates we ordered were oysters and wagyu tartar. The large plates ordered were trout and scallops. A side of potato salad was shared as well. And for dessert the sticky toffee pudding with ice cream. Oysters were good with the apple kimchi sauce. I do prefer more of the strong lemon citrus flavors. They did state the Island creek variety oysters aren't served around the area that they have seen. Wagyu tartar (locally sourced from Jiyu American Wagyu Farms) was great and the seasoning was nice with the cumin flavor coming out. The warm in house pita chips/bread it was served with were very tasty as well. The trout was very good and the sauce it was served with was delightful. I was craving scallops since it had been a minute so I ordered the scallops. They were cooked perfectly! The items it was served with weren't my favorite- quinoa and escarole and were too cold for my liking. The potato salad side dish was sooo good as well. Highly recommend this one. I wanted to try the hyped up lemon curd but opted for more our style of dessert the sticky toffee pudding with ice cream and it was sooo good if you are craving the more moist and gooey style of dessert. We were sooo full but had to have the dessert. The service was top notch. Next time perhaps we will splurge on the dry aged beef and I want to try the famous duck noodles. And the tuna or hamachi crudo.
Great atmosphere, but honestly I came here to talk about the sea scallops and sticky toffee pudding. Seriously the best I've ever had! I involuntarily closed my eyes to savor each bite. Incredible. The wait staff was awesome as well. Perfect date night location!
One of the best meals I've ever had, ever, not just in Iowa. Warm nugget potato salad side, crudo, trout, omg can't stop thinking about it and so so impressed. Not to mention the service was impeccable. And the ambience was beautiful, great lightening etc. well done!!!