Would You Like To Start With An Appetizer?

This is a question that you are very likely to be asked by your server when you dine out.  Why would you want to eat before you eat?  Read over Wobbly boots menu featuring the best appetizers in Clive, Iowa and that seems like a silly question.  Once you glance over those tasty items, of course you will want to order an appetizer!  But seriously, did you ever wonder why people serve appetizers in the first place?  

The definition of appetizer is "a small portion of a food served at the beginning of a meal to stimulate the desire to eat."  According to that, the appetizer is meant to tease your taste buds and make you want more.  

Another reason for serving an appetizer besides making you want to eat a meal, is to tame your hunger just enough so that you can make it until the meal is ready.  Giving your guests these small portions before the main course is a kind gesture to keep everyone from feeling overly hungry while the party gets started. When multiple courses are served, it stretches the evening out longer, giving everyone more time to enjoy the evening together.  

Ancient Greeks and Romans took their appetizers to the extreme.  The foods that they offered up to whet their appetites were often the size of what would be considered a main course today.  

During the Renaissance, doctors told people that eating small amounts of food, especially salty meats, prepared the digestive system for the actual meal, making digestion easier. 

When you are dining at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse, knowing that an appetizer is on it's way can make you less frantic about deciding which meal to order. That's a tough decision with a menu as varied and delicious as ours, and not a choice to be made lightly.  Be assured, though, that you really can't go wrong with whatever you pick.  We pride ourselves on offering you the best food in Clive, Iowa, and our yummy appetizers will definitely whet your appetite and make you want more.  


Don't forget you can take home 16 oz. bottles of Wobbly Boots House Recipe BBQ Sauce!!

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Order Up Some Wobbly Boots BBQ For Your Memorial Day

Memorial Day is Monday, May 25 this year, and this weekend will see lots of families and groups of friends getting together, sharing meals, and enjoying the beautiful 3-day weekend. One way to make this get-together a lot simpler is to order up some of the best food in Clive Iowa from Wobbly Boots Roadhouse.  Iowa's best BBQ restaurant has all kinds of tasty treats to add to your Memorial Weekend celebration.

BBQ is the perfect food for an outdoor Memorial Day Party.  You can set up a picnic table or blanket in your backyard or a nearby park, and let everyone get as messy as they need to get. No dining room for you to clean up after they are done.

This is the time and place to really slather on our very own house made BBQ sauce to your heart's, and taste bud's, desire.  It goes great over our smoked meats, ribs, burgers, and those boneless wings that the kids just love.

Second only to the actual barbecue itself, what really makes a picnic successful are the side dishes.  We've got some great ones to go along with an outdoor meal:  legendary baked beans, gourmet potato salad, creamy cole slaw, green beans with bacon, and cheesy corn with ham. We're getting hungry just writing about it!  

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse is looking forward to helping you fill everyone's stomachs with our delicious menu items.  All you need to do is give us a call and let us know what your group would like to order.  We will prepare it in our usual delicious way, get it all packed up to go for you, and you can toss it into your picnic basket and head on over to meet your friends and family with the amazing smell of our mouth-watering hybrid barbecue wafting in before you.




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New Second Location - Same Incredible BBQ!

Open EVERY DAY at 11:00 AM!

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Our Hybrid BBQ Style

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse offers you the best BBQ in Clive, Iowa, and we believe this is because of what we like to call our "Hybrid BBQ."  That's how we refer to our cooking style that is a unique blend of flavors & styles of the BBQ meccas of the United States.  This week we'd like to share the history of a few of the BBQ styles that we pull our inspiration from to bring you the best food in Clive Iowa.  


Kansas City Stlye BBQ
KC Style BBQ is slow-smoked over a variety of woods.  The sauce is a very important part.  The sauces in this region are tomato-based, with many flavor profiles:  sweet, spicy, and tangy.  While most places offer a variety, the staple KC style sauce is generally both spicy and sweet.  Kansas City BBQ evolved form the pit of Henry Perry in the early 1900s, and they have been serving there and all over the U.S. ever since.

St. Louis Style BBQ
Many of the foods considered St. Louis Style BBQ are grilled rather than cooked over the indirect heat and smoke that most BBQs are.  The sauces form here tend to be very sweet, slightly acidic, & sticky tomato-based sauces.  St. Louis loves it sauce!  They often use it heavily, enough so that they are said to consume more barbecue sauce per capita than any other city in the nation.  

Memphis Style BBQ 
Memphis Style BBQ is slow cooked in a pit.  The mostly use pork for their barbecue, usually the ribs and shoulders.  These can be served either "dry" (without sauce) or "wet" (with sauce).  The "wet" ribs not only get their sauce after cooking, but before and during too.

Texas Style BBQ
East Texas in particular, slowly cooks their beef to the point that is is "falling off the bone."  Just the way we like it!  Hickory wood is usually used for smoking meats.  Marinades tend to be sweet and tomato-based, as is their generally thick sauce.  


Wobbly Boots Style BBQ
Our version of BBQ meats are generously coated in our special dry rub and smoked low and slow over hickory for maximum flavor & tenderness. Before serving, we add our house-recipe sauce (we make it right here) to compliment the flavor of the meat!  Our Lake of the Ozarks Wobbly Boots Roadhouse just won "Best BBQ at the Lake" for it's 5th year in a row.  We are proud to be able to bring this award-winning flavor to all of our friends and family right here in Clive.    

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New Second Location - Same Incredible BBQ!

Open EVERY DAY at 11:00 AM!

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May is National BBQ Month

May is the month to celebrate all things BBQ!  Now that's a celebration we can "sink our teeth into". (See what we did there!?!)  And where else would you observe this glorious occasion but at the best BBQ restaurant in Clive Iowa - Wobbly Boots Roadhouse!  Award winning BBQ is what we are known for.

We describe our menu as being a hybrid BBQ.  It's a unique blend of the flavors & style of the BBQ mecca's of the good ol' US of A:  Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis, Texas, and the deep south.  Our meats are generously coated in our special dry rub and smoked low and slow over hickory for maximum flavor and tenderness.  The last step before serving you these delicious dishes is to add our very own house-recipe sauce, MADE RIGHT HERE, to compliment the flavor of those delicious meats.

We always serve our wide variety of smoked meats "wet" (meaning sauce on, so if you want it on the side, be sure to ask for it "dry").  Our scrumptious smoked meats are:

• Pulled Pork
• Beef Brisket
• Burnt Ends
• Turkey Breast
• Pit Ham
• Smoked Sausage

  



How's that sounding so far?  Well we don't stop there!  Our menu also features classic BBQ dinners, each served with 2 of our mouth-watering side dishes and Texas toast.  These include:

• Baby Back Ribs
• Hickory Smoked Chicken
• BBQ Chicken & Ribs Combo
• Half Slab & 1 Smoked Meat
• Half Chicken & 1 Smoked Meat

Last but not least, here are a few more options that are covered in our delicious, home-made BBQ sauce:

• Hickory BBQ Cheeseburger
• Wobbly Boots BIG Loaded Baker
• Smoked BBQ Flatbread
• BBQ Wings
• BBQ Nachos

If BBQ just isn't what you're in the mood for, not to worry.  We offer a full menu with plenty of options for you too.  But this month, we get a special chance to brag a little about our amazing, award winning BBQ right here in Clive, Iowa.  Don't forget, you can take our delicious Wobbly Boots House Recipe BBQ Sauce home a 16-oz bottle and use it to spice up everything you eat at home too.  Heck, it's BBQ Month, why not take home two bottles!



Don't forget you can take home 16 oz. bottles of Wobbly Boots House Recipe BBQ Sauce!!

New Second Location - Same Incredible BBQ!

Open EVERY DAY at 11:00 AM!

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Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St

Clive, IA  50325

(515) 223-5700