Ike's Food & Cocktails

I just wanted to share this awesome roast beef sandwich I recently had for lunch at Ike’s downtown. I’ve been telling everyone that will listen to me all about it.

The roast beef is rare, tender and very juicy and it is served on a fresh onion bun. The au jus has a very nice garlic flavor and the giardiniera adds a nice kick, as does the horseradish sauce on the side. Basically, you get a bunch of sauces and topping to finish off the sandwich in the best way you see fit.

It also comes with cole slaw and a side order of house made French fries.  The food arrives very quickly and it is an excellent lunch time treat.

So yup, I still like Ike’s.


Ike's Food and Cocktails
50 South 6th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
612-746-4537

Ike's Minnetonka brunch

We visited Ike’s on our way out of town a couple weekends ago and it was so good I wanted to share. Usually, we get the family style brunch, but this time we both felt like trying something different.

Of course, we started with the gigantic cinnamon roll anyway, which we though only came with the family style brunch. I forgot to snap a photo of it, but it as big as your head and full of caramel and cinnamon goodness.

John had the sausage and egg flatbread, which did not sound good to me at first, but once I tasted it I loved it. The extra crispy pieces of hash browns sprinkled on top were the best part to me. John liked the flavor of the breakfast sausage. Apparently the sausage is bacon infused. Extra porky I guess for an extra awesome flavor!

I had the Ike’s breakfast sandwich which was quite good as well. It had bacon, avocado, fried eggs and tomato aioli on Texas toast. I don’t recall the tomato aioli adding a lot of flavor, but the avocado was great since avocado makes all sandwiches better. It also came with a side of hash browns. It was a good sandwich but the toast was really thick and made the sandwich overly bready. It would be better with regular bread I think. It was a very large portion and I was unable to finish all of it.

The restaurant was not busy at all on a Saturday morning and we were seated right away. The service was quite good as well.

Here is a link to our last visit to Ike’s Minnetonka:
http://whereshouldwegomsp.blogspot.com/2012/11/ikes-minnetonka.html



Ike's 
17805 Highway 7
Minnetonka, MN 55345
Phone: (952) 681-7099
http://ilikeikes.com

Ike's - Minnetonka

I have been anxiously and excitedly awaiting the opening of Ike's in Minnetonka all summer. Ike's in the West metro? With no downtown parking hassles? Yay! The construction and opening was delayed a few times, but they finally opened for business in mid-September. We waited awhile after it opened to visit because I hate it when a place is busy at first just because it is new. I like to wait until the food and service get into a groove and are up to par.

We arrived fairly early hoping to get in right away, but it was pretty packed at about 6pm. This location has a very nice patio with heaters and quite a few tables. The interior is a bit smaller than I was expecting, but it is still larger than the downtown location. The greeter said it would be a 45 minute wait, but we only waited about 20 minutes. Oddly enough, the entire time we were there, even after we were seated there appeared to be a wait for a table, but at all times there were at least 3-4 tables open in the dining room. I understand the concept of staggered seating, but creating a wait when there are tables available seemed strange to me.

This is the top shelf margarita. It is served a bit differently than at the other location, but it was excellent. Just what the doctor called for on a Friday night after a busy week at work!

The menu at this location is slightly expanded compared to the downtown location, so there were some new menu items that looked interesting. However, I think we both saw the prime rib on the menu and were unable to look beyond it at anything else. As you can see by the photos, we both made a good choice. The prime rib is hickory smoked and you could actually taste the smoky flavor. Wow. It was perfect. It was also cooked perfectly. The smoked flavor made it just a bit more interesting than prime rib I've had elsewhere. John ordered fries as his side.Hand cut fries, just like they have at the downtown location.

I ordered the garlic mashed potatoes as my side. They had a good garlic flavor, but they were just a bit dry. The horseradish sauce on the side of the prime rib was excellent as well, added a bit of spice, which was delicious.

Overall, the service was good and we were not kept waiting for anything. Our server seemed somewhat distracted and was always looking around at other tables even while he was talking to us, which bothered me a bit. Other than that, we had a great visit and we look forward to visiting Ike's in Minnetonka often.

Deals & Discounts: I am not aware of any coupons or Groupons for Ike's. However, the downtown location has a very good happy hour and I would expect the Minnetonka location would have a similar happy hour as well. I am not finding any information regarding happy hour on their website, so I will have to check on this on my next visit or maybe give them a call to confirm.

Ike's
17805 Highway 7
Minnetonka, MN 55345
Phone: (952) 681-7099
http://ilikeikes.com

Ike's Food & Cocktails

Must confess... Ike's is one of my favorite spots downtown for lunch, dinner, happy hour or brunch. I also love the airport location. It is darn close to being as good as the main location, which is hard to do as airport locations of most dining spots tend to be not nearly as great as the originals.

We decided to stop in to Ike's recently before a Twins game. Silly me, I forgot to make a reservation so we had to wait 15 minutes or so. Not bad, but the place is tiny so I don't know what I was thinking by not calling ahead.

John started off with one of their signature bloody Mary's. There is a buffet of goodies on a stick in there. It is apparently a great bloody too, though those are not my thing at all. John said it was good because it was spicy and did not taste like a mix.

John had the bacon cheese burger and fries to eat. I love the fries as they are very crispy and I think they may be hand cut in house, but I could be wrong. Their burgers are great because they use good quality beef and it comes on a big fluffy bun. The good quality bacon helps too.

I went with the weekend brunch. You can choose form eggs any way you want them or an eggs Benedict or an omelet. I went with over easy eggs and white toast.

You also get pancakes, bacon, sausage and hash browns. The pancakes were quite good. I was not expecting to be all that impressed with their pancakes, but they were light and fluffy. The bacon was great, lots of maple flavor too. I'm not that crazy about breakfast sausage in general, so it was just OK to me. I think they do something to their hash browns to jazz them up a bit, though I have no idea what it is they do. They are very crispy and delicious though.

Check out the cinnamon roll. That is a small serving for one too. Usually it is the size of your head, but I asked for a smaller roll. It was warm with lots of carmel and butter and great cinnamon flavor throughout.

We sat at the bar on this visit and the service was just fine, though I did have to ask for the cinnamon roll. Other than that we had a great visit.

Ike's in downtown Minneapolis is pretty tiny, so you might want to make reservations, especially if you are on a tight schedule. I'll have to do another post soon on dinner or happy hour because their whole menu has lots of great choices! I highly recommend their margaritas!


Deals and Discounts: Ike's has a great happy hour Monday though Friday from 3-6pm with drink specials and food specials. The small plates are all but one get one free during happy hour last time we visited a few months ago.


Ike's Food and Cocktails
50 South 6th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
612-746-4537
www.ilikeikes.com/