The Porch, Council Bluffs IA

First time for us. Friendly and fast service. Chicken salad and cheese balls were very good. It's great to hear country music!
Just a little cold inside the restaurant.

I stopped here for a carry out dinner on my drive back to Kansas City. I got the chicken bacon wrap and sweet potato fries. Everything was excellent and fresh. I'm really glad I came here instead of driving through Arby's. They were really fast getting my food ready and I got back on the road in no time.

Always have a good experience here (: Great people, great food. Steak bites are delicious, as is basically everything else on the menu!

Great food and atmosphere. Waited way too long for service. Wait staff seemed disinterested and no engaged with their customers

Absolutely fantastic food, beer, and staff! Flying in for a wedding from philly and looked this place up on the plane while getting off. Best lunch and conversations - the two waitresses were soo sweet and treated us like locals! We had steak Mac n cheese and it was the best! RUN don’t walk to the Porch!

Food was fresh & made to order. Service was really good. Wait time was no issue at all. The food quality is what got me. $11 for a bowl of mac & cheese that was very salty, cold in some places, & very soupy but they expect you to eat it with a fork. Burger was pretty standard, but too salty as well. Kind of in the middle for me overall. I am glad I tried it.

Amazing food and amazing staff. They were super kind and funny (and knew exactly what concert I was going to as well!)

Arrived around 5, Sunday. Wasn't too busy that we couldn't get a table, unfortunately we sat near the patio door exit and there were a lot of kids in the room who were tired of eating with their parents and the kids were going in and out in and out in and out in and out, we stopped counting after 50 times the door had opened and slam shut right behind us.
Service was fast, food was wonderful, highly recommend the Cuban sandwich.
Crinkle fries were really good and sweet potato fries were a surprisingly sweet as they were dusted with cinnamon and sugar, but they were excellent

Place has a volleyball area in back. Party of Three was the only one there for the lunch rush. Food was subpart.

Our servers were plenty friendly and attentive to us. From giving us a heads up on the daily specials to checking up on our opinions of the food, these workers displayed excellent customer service.

The atmosphere inside reminded me of a barbecue restaurant I used to eat at a while ago. Only this place looked more modern. I was important at how many different TVs were hung up on each wall.

It didn’t take too long for our food to be served. I ordered the BBQ Burger and Sweet Potato Fries. I found the burger to be excellent; the burger was juicy and tender, the bacon was perfectly crispy, and the barbecue sauce was a fine balance of sweet and savory.

As for the sweet potato fries, the one detail that kept them from being perfect was the brown sugar sprinkled on top. It made the side dish too sweet for my taste. Otherwise, they were crispy and perfectly browned. None of them were dry. The normal fries weren’t very crispy by comparison.

The pickle spears served were fresh and crisp. Some restaurants that have served pickle spears usually couldn’t reach this level of quality.

Overall, I found this to be a solid choice for dinner.

Very very good spot for a Sunday meal, there were tons of ppl there, but mostly playing beach vb outside, so plenty of seating available inside. The food was awesome, and the fries were definitely in my top 5. Staff was friendly and I was overall very impressed. I will definitely be coming back the next time we're in the area

The food was good, the service was alright. The atmosphere was to much, to small of a space which made it really really really loud. Which made it hard to have a conversation at your table cause you could not hear them very well over all the kids.

Excellent food, heard about and looking for a good place and found it!
We will be back!

I stumbled upon this gem in one of my frequent visits to Omaha. I'm from Des Moines so I'm happy we found a local, delicious place to eat in Council Bluffs! The first time we came we got the Mac & Steak and it is so delicious! I have been back several times and I get that every time! I did try the white chicken chili soup the first time I went but wasn't really a fan. However, the Steak and Mac is so good that we have even brought friends and family from Des Moines to try! Service is always friendly and tables are nice and clean. The bathrooms always seem decent when I'm there and they even provide feminine products, which I think is great! You should definitely give this locally owned, amazing place a try!

The service was great and the place was clean.

My husband had a prime rib grilled cheese sandwich that he thought was good. I had the macaroni and cheese bowl with pulled pork. It was "ok". Maybe I should have had the steak and macaroni as the server suggested! The cheese was a sauce, not baked or cooked together. It seemed a bit runny. Not what I had expected.

The absolute best part was my husband's sweet potato fries! They were delicious without any cinnamon and sugar.