In Memoriam: Ames Business/Restaurants
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KidSilverhair
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The Broiler
The Brown Bottle
Both way out in west Ames on Lincoln Way.
The Brown Bottle
Both way out in west Ames on Lincoln Way.
Johnston location is now Taste of New York Pizza, its pretty good.
Everything was awesome...pasta was great too. But I could get a pizza and 24 pieces of their cheesebread. I was addicted and living two blocks away didn't help
Probably about that length. I went in about twice before basketball games and it was busy but just lacked proper management.
I know its been discussed earlier in the thread, but shoutout to Home Team pizza. Giant greasy pizza's for under $5.00 was great drunk food
Sandy's on Welch. And BEE VEE at 24th and Grand. Ummmmmmm. Ah for the simplicity and thrill of ride your bike to get burgers and fries as a kid. 
Ankeny had a small location that closed sometime after 2000. I took 2 summer classes at the Ankeny DMACC campus one summer where I had about a 3 hour gap between classes so would eat an early supper before the 2nd one started. Held me over till fall classes at ISU that I could get my cravings in over the summer.
About the only way I could eat Home Team pizza was to load it up with a bunch of toppings. The 1 topping sausage pizza was just a gross greasy mess otherwise.
I loved the Brown Bottle. I went to the one in Waterloo a few years ago. Brought back some good memories of my father who love to eat there.
No they are all closed. The guy that owned them completely mismanaged the money. It's sad because all of the locations were always busy and the food was consistently good. I spent a lot of happy hours at the bar in Ankeny
What did you get? Lots of fond memories of the brown bottle growing up. Never knew there was an ames location.
As far as I know that was the OG, that's where I grew up. The spaghetti with meat sauce was my got to, but I don't remember anything not being great, plus garlic bread and either creamy garlic or their very vinegar heavy italian dressing...now i'm drooling.
Well dang... now I can't remember if the subs that I loved were Valentino's or Davinci's... I'm almost certain it was Davinci's now. (they were wrapped in aluminum foil and so damn good)
