Place to eat in CF/Waterloo like Cafe Somerset in Ames?
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I will not eat at anything Beck owns. Frozen, reheated, crap service at every single one of his establishments. Plus he is not exactly the most ethical owner in the world
Go to Morgs in dowtown Waterloo for breakfast sometime. Not much to look at on the outside, but you won't be disappointed with the food.
welcome to the area brother. you are going to like it here. there are lots of restaurants plus Waterloo is getting a Dicks sporting goods. and a longhorn steakhouse is opening soon. I hear that they are good.
Darin Beck gets a terrible reputation for things that happened 15 years ago. He has admitted that he had a drug problem in the past, has gotten help and turned his life around. I know dozens of people that work for him or have worked for him at every level from COO to waiting tables or cooking, they have nothing but good things to say about how they were/are treated. His restaurants, especially Bourbon Street and Roux Orleans are absolutely phenomenal, award winning stuff in both places.
I do agree on Beck's though. Pepper's, The OP, and Mulligans are much, much better.
He is a forward thinker and a great entrepreneur which for some reason is always frowned upon in Waterloo/CF.
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Becks sports bar is terrible. I would never recommend that. Do yourself a favor and just go to peppers or the OP for sports bars instead.
Bourbon Street and Voodoo Lounge are about the only two places I enjoy of his. Even there though I've never received good service at any of his establishments, so that is the main reason I gave up on them. Award winning? Maybe within the Cedar Valley where there arent many "non Beck" options.
IMO, he is kind of like the Wal Mart of Waterloo/Cedar Falls. His "big" restaurants really push down the little guys. The OP is really the only other restaurant on the Hill worth eating at. He also owns half of the Hill which doesn't give consumers many options.
Too bad that guy owns like half the local restaurants in the Cedar Valley then...
Also, if you like Bourbon Street in downtown Cedar Falls I'm pretty sure that Roux Orleans in Waterloo is almost the exact same menu.
Also, Sub City is ok, but it is not my favorite. If you are downtown for lunch stop by the Boardwalk Deli. It's nothing special, but the owners are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
