Jethro's BBQ 'n Bacon Bacon

1480 22nd St, West Des Moines
(515) 868-0888

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Amazing Slow Smoked Wings
Jethro's Wing Combo
Bacon Wrapped Ribs
Breakfast Burrito
Brisket Platter
Biscuits Gravy
Bucket of Bacon
Mac and Cheese
BBQ Sandwich
Waffle Fries

Menu

Fixin's First
Bucket of Bacon
Jethro's hickory smoked bacon, griddled crispy, and stacked high. Ten strips.
Bubba's Boneless Wings
Tender white meat chicken soaked in buttermilk, lightly breaded, and flash fried to a crispy finish. Served with your choice of sauces for dipping.
Amazing Slow Smoked Wings
Hardwood smoked and fried to a crispy finish, tossed in your choice of sauces along with blue cheese or ranch dressing.
Chicken Tenders
Country fried chicken tenders, tossed in your choice of sauce, and or have it on the side for some real dipping fun.
Jethro's 1/2 Slab Rib Taster(6-7 Bones)
Jethro smokes them all day and lathers on sweet bourbon glaze.
Smoked Chicken Nachos
Fried corn chips dusted with secret spice smothered with white cheddar sauce and shredded cheeses, topped with smoked chicken and finished with black bean corn salsa, jalapenos, pico, guacamole, and sour cream.
Fried Cheese Squares
Aged white cheddar with country coating, served warm, and gooey with double secret chipotle ranch.
Jethro's Wing Combo
Bubbas boneless wings and five slow smoked jethros wings.
Tator Tot Nachos
Tator tots and chorizo, smothered with white cheddar sauce and shredded cheeses, topped with black bean corn salsa, jalapenos, pico, guacamole, and sour cream.
Bayou Pickle Chips
Thin sliced pickle chips soaked in buttermilk, lightly breaded, flash fried crispy, and served with chipotle ranch for some real dipping fun.
Quesadillas
Flour tortillas, layered with cheese and smoked chicken, with pico, guacamole, and sour cream.
Queso Dip
Aged white cheddar and mozzarella cheese with a hint of chili and lime. Served with fresh fried corn chips.
Texas Bacon Burger Sliders (3)
Three, House brisket burgers, topped with Texas bacon, American cheese, and secret sauce.
Onion Rings
Sweet onions, soaked in buttermilk, lightly breaded, flash fried, and dusted in rub.

Made To Order Omelets
Pork and Roasted Poblano Omelet
Slow smoked pork, roasted poblano peppers, smoked sweet corn, and pepperjack cheese. Served with sour cream and guacamole.
Create Your Own Omelet
Choose up to 4 of your favorite Jethro's ingredients from our list of toppings to create your own omelet. Comes with choice of hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of toast.
The Denver
Pit ham, cheddar cheese, sauteed onions, and peppers. served with hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of toast
The Piglet
Pit ham, American, and white cheddar cheese sauce. Served with hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of toast.
Bulldog
Texas brisket, sauteed onions, peppers, and topped with aged cheddar cheese. Served with hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of toast.

Downhome Skillets
Jake
We load jethros world famous Texas brisket, pepper jack cheese, sauteed mushrooms, and onions. Smothered in toppings with two extra large eggs. Served over hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of toast
Breakfast Poutine
Waffle fries topped with scrambled eggs mushrooms, and onions. Smothered in bacon sausage gravy and topped with 2 of Jethro's signature fried cheese squares
Des Moines
Topped with slab bacon, breakfast sausage, and pit ham. Then we smother em with cheddar cheese. Smothered in toppings with two extra large eggs. Served over hashbrowns or tator tots with choice of toast
Create Your Own Skillet
Smothered in toppings with two extra large eggs. Pick 4 Ingredients of your choice. Served over hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of toast. $.95 for each additional topping.
Southwest
Chorizo, shredded cheese, guacamole, sour cream, and pico. Smothered in toppings with extra large eggs. Served over hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of bread.

Breakfast Vittles
Game Day Breakfast
Made from scratch biscuits and bacon sausage gravy, Texas style hash browns, topped with spicy chili and cheese, and sour cream. Finished three eggs (any style).
Country Fried Steak
A half pound, fried crispy and topped with bacon sausage gravy. Served with two extra large eggs (any style). Comes with hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of toast.
The Cowboy Breakfast
A full half pound of famous Texas brisket and two extra large eggs (any style). Served with hashbrowns or tator tots and choice of toast.
Grandmas Breakfast
Two extra large eggs (any style). Served with choice of breakfast meat and choice of toast.
Chicken Chorizo Chilaquiles
Fresh corn tortillas toppped with homemade chicken chorizo, tomatillo salsa, queso fresco, and 2 sunny side eggs
Breakfast Grinder
Hoagie bun filled with scrambled eggs, Graziano sausage, mozzarella cheese, roasted poblano peppers, and pepperoncini's. Comes with choice of hashbrowns or tator tots.
French Toast
Three thick cut french bread, hand dipped in jethros own vanilla cinnamon batter. Served with choice of breakfast meat.
Biscuits and Bacon Sausage Gravy Breakfast
With two extra large eggs (any style).
Papas Breakfast
2 French Toast or 2 Pancakes. Two extra large eggs (any style). Served with choice of breakfast meat.
The Jethro Burrito
Scrambled eggs with chorizo, pico, guacamole, and sour cream. Topped with cheddar cheese sauce. Served with hashbrowns or tator tots.
Eggs Benedict
Grilled Canadian bacon on a fresh, toasted English muffin and topped with soft poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. Served with hashbrowns or tator tots.

Pancakes
Elvis Presley Peanut Butter Bacon Banana Pancakes
Priscilla stirs in chunks of bacon and banana in her famous buttermilk batter, grilled em hot and piles em three high, then tops em with Jethros yummy peanut butter sauce. Served with choice of breakfast meat.
Buttermilk Pancakes
Three of grandma's made from scratch, large buttermilk pancakes, griddled hot, and piled high. Served with your choice of meat.

Breakfast Sides
Pancake (1)
Bacon
Side Breakfast Gravy
Breakfast Sausage
Hash Browns
Biscuit
Texas Hashbrowns(Cheese, chili, sour cream, jalapenos)
French Toast (1)
White
Jalapeno Cornbread Toast
Big thick cut toast(2) flavored with jalapenos and dusted with cornmeal
Pit Ham
Wheat
Marble Rye
English Muffin

Amazing House Smoked Meats
Two Meats Dinner for One
Choice of two meats(1/4 pound of each) with 2 sides and choice of corn muffin or texas toast.
One Meat Dinner for One
Half pound of meat with 2 sides and choice of corn muffin or texas toast
BBQ Sandwich
Choice of our slowed smoked meats with one side
Half Slab Baby Back Ribs and Two Meat Dinner for Two
Half slab of baby back ribs and choice of two meats. Served with four sides. And choice or corn muffins, texas toast, or one order of each.
Iowa Platter
Chopped Brisket, Pulled Pork, Pulled Chicken, Bourbon Bacon, Jalapeno Sausage. with four sides and choice of corn muffins or texas toast.
Full Slab Baby Ribs Dinner for One
Full slab of baby back ribs with two sides and choice of corn muffin or texas toast
Brisket Platter
Slow smoked sliced brisket, chopped brisket, and smoky sweet burnt ends with two sides and choice of corn muffin or texas toast
Half Slab Baby Back Ribs Dinner for One
1/2 a rack of baby back ribs with two sides and choice of corn muffin or texas toast
Ribs and Boneless Wings Combo
1\2 slab of baby back ribs and a 1/2 order of Bubba's boneless wings with two sides and choice of corn muffin or Texas toast
BBQ Melt
Your favorite house smoked meat on Texas toast melted with American and Swiss Cheese. Comes with choice of side

Earl of Sandwich
Better Homes and Gardens Melt
"Better Homes and Gardens" Magazine's August 2009 Issue selected this melt as their favorite BBQ dish in Des Moines. "A unique combination of Swiss and American cheeses melted on top of Carolina pulled pork and smoked turkey." Served with choice of side
BBQ Sandwich
Choice of our slowed smoked meats with one side
BBQ Melt
Your favorite house smoked meat on Texas toast melted with American and Swiss Cheese. Comes with choice of side
The Stockyard Special
Sliced Texas brisket, burnt ends, caramelized onions, and cheddar bacon cheese spread on a toasted bun.
Boss Hog
Pulled pork tossed in jethros secret barbecue sauce with Texas bacon, crispy onion strings, and pepper jack cheese on a freshly baked bun.
The Ragin Cajun
1/2 pound blackened grilled pork tenderloin, topped with pepper jack cheese, smoked pulled pork, and spicy andouille sausage, all slathered in our Cajun Creole sauce.

Iowa Premium Angus Steak Burgers
Knife and Fork Breakfast Burger
Jalapeno cornbread toast topped with Canadian bacon, hashbrowns, a 1/2lb Angus steak patty, American cheese, queso cheese sauce, and a sunny side egg. comes with choice of side.
Triple Bacon Bacon Burger
Our Signature blend of ground Angus steak and smokehouse bacon. Add two slabs of thick bacon, two slices of Canadian bacon, and American cheese. Served with choice of side.
Bacon Grilled Cheese Burger
A fresh ground half pound Angus steak patty, with three strips of bacon and American cheese with yummy garlic Parmesan Texas toast. Served with choice of side.
BBQ BulldogBurger
A fresh ground half pound Angus steak patty, topped with sliced Brisket, sautéed green peppers and onions, cheddar cheese, and Jethros Secret BBQ sauce.
Papas Burger
We always start with a fresh ground half pound Angus steak patty, grilled to perfection. Choose your favorite cheese, we will bring the lettuce, onion, tomato, and pickle.

Jethros Biggest
The World Famous Adam Emmenecker
Start with our huge pork tenderloin, add an angus steak burger, top it with slabs of Texas brisket, apple wood bacon, fried cheese and finished with Buffalo chicken tenders. Smother this mountain with melted cheddar cheese and white cheddar sauce. Served with your choice of side.
The Jethro
We start with our tenderloin and add Carolina style pulled pork, house smoked pit ham and a double order of thick slab bacon. Includes your choice of side.

Vittles
The Ultimate BLT
Triple decker style on Texas toast with slabs and slabs of bacon, crispy lettuce, juicy tomato, and creamy mayonnaise. Served with choice of side.
Pork Tenderloin
It's as big as the plate! Pounded flat, fried crispy, on a toasted bun with onion and pickles. Served with choice of side.
Roscoe's Buffalo Chicken Wrap
Buffalo style boneless chicken wings with creamy bacon sauce, crisp lettuce, tomato, and shredded cheese. Served with choice of side.
Southern Salmon Dinner
Fresh, cajun blackened or seared. Served with two sides and choice of corn muffin or texas toast.
Chicken Finger Grilled Cheese
Three handbreaded all white meat chicken fingers, smothered in ranch, crispy bacon, american and swiss cheese on garlic parmesan toast. Served with choice of side.

Green Stuff
Side Salad
Sally Sue Southwestern
Crisp greens, topped with smoked chicken, cheddar and Jack cheeses, black bean corn salsa, pico, guacamole, sour cream, and tossed in our double secret chipotle ranch, served in a crispy taco shell.
Cindy Sue's Southside Salad
Crisp greens, pepperoncini, mozzarella cheese, and croutons. Served with house made creamy Italian dressing.
From the Garden
Crisp greens, tomatoes, croutons, and cheese.
The Club Salad
Crisp greens tossed with house smoked turkey, pit ham, bacon, tomatoes, cheddar, and swiss cheeses. With your choice of dressing.

Soup
Bacon Potato Soup
Oscars homemade bacon potato soup. Rich and creamy topped with sour creeam and bacon bits.
Jake's Spicy BBQ Steak Chili Soup
Large bites of aged steak and smoked beans make this chili uniquely Jethro's. Topped with cheese, sour cream, and jalapenos. Served with a corn muffin.

Homemade Sides
Corn Muffin
Waffle Fries
Mac and Cheese
Texas Toast
Jalapeno Cream Corn
Mashed Potatoes w/ Bacon Gravy
Side Salad
Onion Rings
Potato Salad
Campfire Baked Beans
Mashed Potatoes Gravy on Sd
Coleslaw
Green Beans
Sweet Potato Fries
Tator Tots
Mashed Potatoes no Gravy
Apple Sauce
Cottage Cheese

Homemade Dessert
Caramel Apple Crisp Ala Mode
Homemade caramel apple crisp topped with oat crumble and served with a healthy scoop of ice cream then drizzled with rich caramel.
Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding w/ White Chocolate drizzle
Ooooey gooey warm apple bread pudding with caramel glaze.
Busters Big Chocolate Cake
Layers of fudgey and gooey delight.

Beverages
20oz. Bottle Pepsi Products
Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mt Dew, or Diet Dew in a 20oz bottle. No spills and no extra stops.
Ice Tea
Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
Fresh squeezed from Jethro's own Squeezerator
20oz Aquafina
Coffee
Fresh brewed 12oz Coffee
Hot Tea

Kids Meals
Kids Pancake and Egg
One Mickey Mouse shaped pancake with 1 egg any style
Kids Chicken Strips
Three all white meat chicken fingers hand breaded and served with dipping sauce of choice and one side
Kids Cheeseburger
Our Iowa Premium Angus Steak grilled and topped with choice of cheese and served with choice of side.
Kids Mac and Cheese
a healthy portion of our homemade mac and cheese, served with choice of side.
Kids BBQ Sandwich
Pick one of our amazing house smoked meats served on a bun with choice of side
Kids Egg and Bacon
1 Egg any style and 2 strips of bacon
Kids Ham and Cheese
Grilled cheese stuff with shaved ham and served with choice of side
Kids Cheese Quesadilla
Tortilla stuffed with shredded cheese and grilled, served with choice of side.
Kids Biscuit and Gravy with Egg
1 Buttermilk Biscuit topped with our homemade bacon sausage gravy and served with 1 egg any style
Kids French Toast and Egg
1 Thick Cut French Toast with 1 egg any style
Kids Grilled Cheese
White bread, American cheese grilled to perfection with choice of side

Sauce Bears
Jethro Bear
Bear of our original Jethro's BBQ Sauce
Ranch Bear
a Big Bear of our homemade ranch dressing
Hot BBQ Bear
a small bear of our Hot BBQ Sauce
Carolina BBQ Bear
a small bear of our tangy carolina vinegar based bbq sauce
Garlic Parmesan Bear
a large bear of creamy goodness.
Alabama White Bear
a small bear of our white bbq sauce. Made with horseradish this has a real tangy bite.
Ghost Pepper Bear
This aint messin round. Real heat great flavor.
Georgia Mustard Bear
a small bear of our Georgia Mustard BBQ
Raspberry Habanero Bear
Great flavor combined with some 2nd level heat.
Buffalo Bear
a large bear of our Buffalo wing sauce.
BBQ Rub Bear (Sweet Oil Glaze)
a large Bear of our top selling BBQ Rub. This sweet oil glaze is our most popular wing sauce.
Chili Teriyaki Bear
This sweet chili sauce balances heat with sweet.

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Recent Reviews

We had a work dinner with a group of 8 late on a Sunday night. Andrew was our server and he was AMAZING. So fun, totally cool with our crazy ordering of everything on the menu late on a Sunday night. We LOVED him. He fit right in with the fun we were there to have. The food was MIND BLOWINGLY GREAT too. I've never had pork this good. So many fun menu options. We had a blast and Andrew was definitely a big reason. We HIGHLY recommend this place if you are looking for delish...
October 2025
Great BBQ — brisket was tender with good smoke, ribs were meaty, and sandwiches hit the spot. The wings are great and the jalapeno corn is the best out there. Fast service, big portions, and highly recommended!
October 2025
My partner and I generally order take out from here, but we went in tonight for the full experience. We split two dinners and our server Andrew was very accommodating.

My partner is gluten free and Andrew took it very seriously, ensuring we would enjoy our night at Bacon-Bacon. And how did he deliver!

We split two dinners, a full rib rack (yum!) and a two meat platter (brisket and burnt ends) and we were not disappointed!

We...
October 2025

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Jethro's BBQ 'n Bacon Bacon

1480 22nd St, West Des Moines, IA 50266
(515) 868-0888