Based on 142 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.6 stars. Price
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No delivery
Address:
401 S Des Moines St, Odebolt, IA 51458
Phone: (712) 668-2278
Hours
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–1 PM, 5 PM–2 AM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–1 PM, 5 PM–2 AM |
| Friday | 11 AM–1 PM, 5 PM–2 AM |
| Saturday | 5 PM–2 AM |
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Reviews
Martino A
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.
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Todd Green
Good food, great service. Better Prime Rib than Cattlemens.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Gordon Nash
Let me preface by saying normally I love this place. Nice salad bar, great soups, nice staff and particularly perfect fountain Pepsi that is good and crispy not too sweet. On this Saturday night I decided to have the prime rib. It was priced Right and a generous portion. Unfortunately it had no flavor it was too chewy to really eat. I come here too often to complain and decided to just bring home the leftovers and cut it up for my dog.
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John A
Good food, a run down building. A lot of food on menu was not available.
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Michelle James
Great food! Sirloin was cooked to perfection. Prime rib Oscar was good. Asparagus was woody, but overall the dish was great! One Oscar was more than enough for 2 people! It was super busy so even with reservations it took an hour to get our food.
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Sheri Capron
I had the ribeye and salad bar. It was very good and service was great.
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J B
Inexpensive lunch options. Took my older parents for lunch here. Food was pretty good, service was great and we all enjoyed the complimentary soft serve.
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