The food is amazing and the Ribs are fantastic! Great place to eat. Call for reservations they fill up fast!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Colleen Lainhart
Good food, good service, home town atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amanda
Had a reservation but when I came in I was absolutely ignored. Not a word was said to me or anyone in my party. My reservation time came and went still with no "hello" or "can I help you?" so I left and went to a different restaurant where I was greeted and sat within 30 seconds. It was there that I ate a lovely prime rib meal. Would've preferred to give my business to The Bowling Alley since I drove for three hours to eat there based on a local recommendation but the substitute restaurant was still great. Can't comment on the food at the Bowling Alley other than that it looked amazing as it was passing by me. I'm sure others were very happy eating there.
Service: 1
Doc Zortman
We traveled to Odebolt from Sioux City, Friday; May 10th - our server was Courtney - she was great - small town character and attitude - kidding with us was great! She knew I was going to write a review and hopefully, she'll see this! We'll be back! Not sure who the gal is in red... my wife and I in our patriotic stuff...
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Stacey Vonnahme
If only we could have watched the game without the tv constantly glitching, I would give it 5 stars across the board! My prime rib sandwich was a very healthy serving that will give me a couple more meals! Cooked perfect at medium rare - that's hard to get these days! I'd prefer hashbrowns, cheese, and onions served open-face rather than folded like a sandwich. My husband didn't mind it, though. It hid the onions so he could eat them without complaining. ;)
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Todd Green
Good food, great service. Better Prime Rib than Cattlemens.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Ribeye Steaks
Jimmy Selkirk
Parking: Yes
Kid-friendliness: Yes
Wheelchair accessibility: Yes
John A
Good food, a run down building. A lot of food on menu was not available.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 3
S Bellz
One of our go to places!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sheri Capron
I had the ribeye and salad bar. It was very good and service was great.
First time going to The Bowling Alley. Cool atmosphere, dollar bills on the ceiling, friendly staff. I ordered a shrimp basket, rib-eye steak and garlic mashed potatoes, no drink, just water, with the tip, came to over $50. Had I known about the steak and shrimp special, and the salad bar, I would have ordered both of those. Shrimp basket was frozen breaded shrimp, the steak was okay, nothing I would drive out of my way to try again, garlic mashed potatoes tasted like regular mashed potatoes, no garlic flavor at all. I saw a lot of people ordering pizza, I'll have to try the pizza next time. Note to staff, not everyone who walks through the door knows about the specials, including the specials in the menu or verbally letting people know would be helpful.
Kayla Wingert
Stopped after a basketball game this evening. Walked in at 6:15. 4 tables that came after us ordered before us. Another group that came in with us was given their to-go boxes before we ordered. Finally ordered at 6:40. When ordering a pizza, our waitress said “G** Da**” you’re going to make the kitchen angry.” We ordered 2 pizzas, 2 burgers and 10 wings. 6 tables that ordered after us have now been served, only one remains with empty plates. We get our food at 7:25 without the pizzas. Waitress tells us she’ll go check on them. At 7:30 my mom has to remind the lady to check on our pizzas. “One will be out in 2 minutes and the other is right behind.” Brings the first one, and says “it will be about 4 more minutes for the other pizza.” The last pizza comes out at 7:30. My husband asks for a to-go box since everyone else at the table had finished their food.Our checks are brought to us and I ask about compensation. Another waitress says “we only have one pizza oven and it takes too long” (maybe would have been nice to know when we ordered instead of being told we were making the kitchen angry) Our waitress goes to talk to the manager, and comes back and says “nope!” We explained that we won’t be back, and we don’t appreciate the people coming out of the kitchen to look at us when all we have wanted was the supper we ordered 50 minutes ago. All of a sudden our original waitress was yelling at us and said “I’m not doing it!!” And walked off.Mind you, we have been patient and polite the entire time until she started yelling at us. We understand people are busy. We had three young kids with us -one a baby - and they literally waited so patiently.
sherry juilfs
Great food and very busy. Best to call ahead or just go early.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Ribeye Steaks
Pamela Garvis
Had reservations for 6:30. Got there a little early & we were seated quickly. Ordered at 6:30. Food finally came at 7:45, over an hour wait! We all ordered rare prime rib and were assured they had rare left. When we finally got it, it was medium (barely pink) and it was cold... and so were the sides. We reported it to our waitress who stated that was as rare as they cooked it. We asked for to go boxes and left after taking 2 bites. We drove 40 minutes to Carroll to Baratta's where they know how to serve rare prime rib. What we got at The Bowling Alley was cut up and put into our chili... what a waste of money!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 2
K McKinney
Prime Rib was very good. Wife got 8 pcs of Butterfly shrimp that were large. Been there a few times and NEVER had a bad meal. Soft serve ice cream finishes it off. Saturday nights best to make a reservation, still wait is usually no longer than 20 min. Just enough time to visit their bar for a round before supper. Nice small salad bar, and soups are very good also. So basically can't go wrong eating there.
The food is amazing and the Ribs are fantastic! Great place to eat. Call for reservations they fill up fast!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good food, good service, home town atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Had a reservation but when I came in I was absolutely ignored. Not a word was said to me or anyone in my party. My reservation time came and went still with no "hello" or "can I help you?" so I left and went to a different restaurant where I was greeted and sat within 30 seconds. It was there that I ate a lovely prime rib meal. Would've preferred to give my business to The Bowling Alley since I drove for three hours to eat there based on a local recommendation but the substitute restaurant was still great. Can't comment on the food at the Bowling Alley other than that it looked amazing as it was passing by me. I'm sure others were very happy eating there.
Service: 1
We traveled to Odebolt from Sioux City, Friday; May 10th - our server was Courtney - she was great - small town character and attitude - kidding with us was great! She knew I was going to write a review and hopefully, she'll see this! We'll be back! Not sure who the gal is in red... my wife and I in our patriotic stuff...
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
If only we could have watched the game without the tv constantly glitching, I would give it 5 stars across the board! My prime rib sandwich was a very healthy serving that will give me a couple more meals! Cooked perfect at medium rare - that's hard to get these days! I'd prefer hashbrowns, cheese, and onions served open-face rather than folded like a sandwich. My husband didn't mind it, though. It hid the onions so he could eat them without complaining. ;)
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good food, great service. Better Prime Rib than Cattlemens.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Ribeye Steaks
Parking: Yes
Kid-friendliness: Yes
Wheelchair accessibility: Yes
Good food, a run down building. A lot of food on menu was not available.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 3
One of our go to places!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I had the ribeye and salad bar. It was very good and service was great.
Kid-friendliness: Very good customer service.
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First time going to The Bowling Alley. Cool atmosphere, dollar bills on the ceiling, friendly staff. I ordered a shrimp basket, rib-eye steak and garlic mashed potatoes, no drink, just water, with the tip, came to over $50. Had I known about the steak and shrimp special, and the salad bar, I would have ordered both of those. Shrimp basket was frozen breaded shrimp, the steak was okay, nothing I would drive out of my way to try again, garlic mashed potatoes tasted like regular mashed potatoes, no garlic flavor at all. I saw a lot of people ordering pizza, I'll have to try the pizza next time. Note to staff, not everyone who walks through the door knows about the specials, including the specials in the menu or verbally letting people know would be helpful.
Stopped after a basketball game this evening. Walked in at 6:15. 4 tables that came after us ordered before us. Another group that came in with us was given their to-go boxes before we ordered. Finally ordered at 6:40. When ordering a pizza, our waitress said “G** Da**” you’re going to make the kitchen angry.” We ordered 2 pizzas, 2 burgers and 10 wings. 6 tables that ordered after us have now been served, only one remains with empty plates. We get our food at 7:25 without the pizzas. Waitress tells us she’ll go check on them. At 7:30 my mom has to remind the lady to check on our pizzas. “One will be out in 2 minutes and the other is right behind.” Brings the first one, and says “it will be about 4 more minutes for the other pizza.” The last pizza comes out at 7:30. My husband asks for a to-go box since everyone else at the table had finished their food.Our checks are brought to us and I ask about compensation. Another waitress says “we only have one pizza oven and it takes too long” (maybe would have been nice to know when we ordered instead of being told we were making the kitchen angry) Our waitress goes to talk to the manager, and comes back and says “nope!” We explained that we won’t be back, and we don’t appreciate the people coming out of the kitchen to look at us when all we have wanted was the supper we ordered 50 minutes ago. All of a sudden our original waitress was yelling at us and said “I’m not doing it!!” And walked off.Mind you, we have been patient and polite the entire time until she started yelling at us. We understand people are busy. We had three young kids with us -one a baby - and they literally waited so patiently.
Great food and very busy. Best to call ahead or just go early.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Ribeye Steaks
Had reservations for 6:30. Got there a little early & we were seated quickly. Ordered at 6:30. Food finally came at 7:45, over an hour wait! We all ordered rare prime rib and were assured they had rare left. When we finally got it, it was medium (barely pink) and it was cold... and so were the sides. We reported it to our waitress who stated that was as rare as they cooked it. We asked for to go boxes and left after taking 2 bites. We drove 40 minutes to Carroll to Baratta's where they know how to serve rare prime rib. What we got at The Bowling Alley was cut up and put into our chili... what a waste of money!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 2
Prime Rib was very good. Wife got 8 pcs of Butterfly shrimp that were large. Been there a few times and NEVER had a bad meal. Soft serve ice cream finishes it off. Saturday nights best to make a reservation, still wait is usually no longer than 20 min. Just enough time to visit their bar for a round before supper. Nice small salad bar, and soups are very good also. So basically can't go wrong eating there.
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