Wobbly Boots BBQ

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Wobbly Boots' Awesome Kids' Menu

The worst part about eating out when you have children is the indecision. No one can ever seem to agree on the same restaurant for the night. Well, we've got an answer for you. Bring them on in to the best family BBQ restaurant in Clive, Iowa for a bite and they'll all have a brand new favorite to agree on.

Here are the yummy choices for your young'ns 12 and under to munch on, and each meal comes with a small drink in a special kids' cup.

Kids Burger with fries

Boneless Wings with fries

Grilled Cheese with fries

Mini Corn Dogs with fries

Pork slider with fries

Mac & Cheese Boat

Those are some excellent choices for the kids to get started on, but once they get a whiff of Mom & Dad's food, they just may wanna graduate up to the big BBQ menu! Our delicious hickory-smoked meats can be served dry (without sauce) so kids can add as little or as much as they like.

The next time you all pile into the car and someone asks, "Where do you want to eat tonight?" we're betting you will get a unanimous "Wobbly Boots!" When you are looking for the best food in the Des Moines area, Wobbly Boots Roadhouse has got you covered.

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

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Father's Day = Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

Father's Day is just around the corner, and we know here at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse that we've got what your dad will love for his F-A-T-H-E-R-S D-A-Y. Let us spell it out for you...

F = FLAVOR
To give you our marvelous menu, we created a unique blend of the flavors & styles of the BBQ mecca’s of the United States: Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis, Texas, and the deep south. On top of that, our house-recipe sauce (that we make right here!) perfectly compliments the already delicious flavor!

A = AROMA
You'll be able to smell our mouth-watering menu when you walk through the door. Maybe even in the parking lot when you get out of your car!

T = TENDER
Our meats are generously coated in our special dry rub and smoked low and slow over hickory for maximum flavor & tenderness

H = HEAT
Does your dad like it hot? Our El Diablo is a real mouth-burner! We cover our 100% hand-pattied black angus burger with ghost pepper cheese, bacon, jalapenos, and our chipotle buffalo sauce. If he likes the heat, this choice will not disappoint.

E = ENJOYABLE
Besides the amazing menu and barbecue process we've been mentioning already, your pop will love the down-home, family friendly atmosphere we host here at the Boot. He can even keep an eye on all of his sports stats and favorite games on one of our 17 televisions from any seat in the place.

R = REFRESHING
He's gonna need to wash that fabulous food down with something. If your father's a beer drinker, we've got ice cold bottles of beer and 18 tasty varieties on tap. The bar is fully stocked for mixing cocktails, and we have plenty of non-alcoholic choices too. We offer Pepsi products, along with good old-fashioned sweet tea.

S = SMOKED
Our hickory smoked, tender, juicy, downright scrumptious meats are the best in Iowa. Dad can have pulled pork, beef brisket, burnt ends, turkey breast, pit ham, or smoked sausage. We also smoke our wings, ribs, meatloaf, and shaved prime rib.

D = DIP, DRIZZLE, or DRENCH
Which way to you prefer our delicious, house-made Wobbly Boots BBQ sauce? You can have your meats served dry, and then either dunk them in our savory sauce, drizzle it over the top, or go crazy and drench the plate in that amazing flavor.

A = APPETITE
The smell will whet your appetite as you walk in the door, and our gigantic servings and large variety of choices are guaranteed to quench that appetite before you leave. Most likely, you'll need a doggy bag for some of it.

Y = YUM!

A very simple word that sums up a very satisfying experience.

Bring Dad on in to the best BBQ restaurant in Iowa this Father's Day. We will treat him like a king, and you get to enjoy a great meal out yourself. Give your father the night off from the grill and let us take care of everything. He deserves it!

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!

Like us on Facebook!

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St
(515) 223-5700

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

6 Great Reasons to Choose Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

Sure, there are plenty of places to pick from when you decide to go out to eat, but all of us here at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse truly believe that we have the best restaurant in Iowa, as do lots of loyal, regular customers. We would love for you to be one of those customers, and here are six great reasons why we think that you will be if you choose to join us at The Boot.

1. Best BBQ in Iowa
Award winning BBQ is what we are known for. Our smoked meats are prepared using a unique, hybrid style, blending the flavors of the BBQ mecca's of the good ol' U.S.of A. - Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis, Texas, and the deep south. We generously coat the meats with our special dry rub, then smoke them low and slow over hickory for maximum flavor and tenderness. On top of all that, we make our very own house-recipe sauce to be added as light or as heavy as your taste buds desire. You can even purchase a 16 oz. bottle of this amazing sauce to take home with you!

2. More than just BBQ

You don't have to be a BBQ lover to find something delicious to eat at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse. We have a large selection of "bar food' on our appetizer menu, including Crab Stuffed Mushrooms, Texas Fries, and our Famous Onion Rings. We offer large, tasty salads, flatbreads, and wraps. Our 100% hand-pattied Black Angus Burgers are the best in the Midwest. The down home sandwiches menu includes a southern-style Catfish Filet and the best Hand-Breaded Pork Tenderloin in Iowa. We even feature some southern comfort food and dinner specialties, including a Prime Rib dinner every Friday and Saturday evening.

3. Great kids' menu
The young'ns can order some pretty incredible choices of their own in kid-friendly portions, and their drink comes along with it in a special Wobbly Boot's kid's cup. We have a burger, boneless wings, grilled cheese, mini corn dogs, and pork sliders which all come with fries, or our mouth-watering mac & cheese boat. As an added bonus, Mom & Dad get a little peace and quiet while the kids' mouths are full!

4. Fully stocked bar & 18 draft beers
We've got enough bottles behind our bar that be assured if we don't have your favorite drink, we'll be able to mix you up a new fave! Our bar even keeps copper mugs on hand for a variety of Moscow Mules. If you haven't tried one of those yet, you are in for a treat. The tap tower offers 18 inviting varieties, including some locally brewed selections. We have the best Happy Hour every Monday through Friday from 3 pm - 6 pm with incredible specials on our beers and mixed drinks.

5. Great place to watch the game
Our place has 17 different televisions, and whatever's on can be seen from both the bar area and the restaurant tables. You can join us to root for all of your favorite sports teams. The more people cheering, the more exciting the whole place gets! It's the next best thing to actually being at the game, and the drinks cost a lot less than at the stadium.

6. You'll feel right at home
We love it here, and we want you to feel the same way about The Boot. Our servers will always be available to make sure that you have everything that you need for the best dining experience possible. The kitchen always takes extra-special care in every dish that they prepare, and our bartenders are here to make sure you never go thirsty and the games you want to watch are always on. When you come to Wobbly Boots Roadhouse, we will do everything in our power to make you feel like family and that you belong here. Stop on by soon and let us get to know you better.

How can you resist? We are sure that when you come into our restaurant, you will find something that will bring you back again and again. Everyone here at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse is looking forward to meeting all of you and adding you to our long list of satisfied customers.

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!

Like us on Facebook!

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St
(515) 223-5700

Thursday, June 4, 2015

5 Interesting Facts About the Stanley Cup

The first of 7 possible games for the 2015 Stanley Cup started last night. If you are looking for the best place to watch the game in Des Moines, look no further than The Boot! Our beloved Chicago Blackhawks are in the running once again. Here are a few fun facts about the Stanley Cup to spark some conversation during all of those commercial breaks.

1. Who was Stanley?

Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston, was the 1892 Governor General of Canada. He and his family became huge fans of hockey at Montreal's 1889 Winter Carnival. Lord Stanley purchased a decorative cup in London for around $50 that he gave as a donation to award Canada's top amateur hockey club.

2. A new cup is not reproduced every year, but it's always changing.

The Stanley Cup is the oldest trophy given out in competition in North America. Instead of giving the new champions their own Cup to keep, they are given the Stanley Cup for just that year. Five, detachable rings are added to the bottom of it with winners names engraved each year. When these rings become full, they are taken off and preserved in Lord Stanley's Vault in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

3. There are actually 3 "one-of-a-kind" Stanley Cups.

The original Stanley Cup is now actually preserved and on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. A Presentation Cup was created in 1963 and is the official Cup awarded to this day. The third Cup is a replica of the Presentation Cup and is used as a stand-in at the Hall of Fame when the Presentation Cup is not there.

4. The Stanley Cup has a chaperone.

The Cup always has at least one representative that has absolute power over everything to do with the Stanley Cup. Lord Stanley insisted on this so that it was kept in proper condition. This is important due to the fact that the Cup is always on the go. Each player on the winning team gets one day to keep the Cup to do with as they wish. This has been a tradition since 1995.

5. The cup's travels are logged in a journal.

Since each player is given 24 hours with the Cup, a journal was started to record it's travels. You can follow the Stanley Cup Journal on the Official Site of the Hockey Hall of Fame. The journal dates back as far as 2003. Some players just enjoy having it for the day, but some choose to have a bit of fun with it. This "Cup" leads quite an eventful life.

There are at least 3 games left to watch, and 6 more if both teams really fight for it. Swing by Wobbly Boots Roadhouse and watch with us. We've got plenty of screens for everyone to watch on, drinks will be cold, and food will be hot. The best possible way to watch the game if you can't be at the stadium.

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!

Like us on Facebook!

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St
(515) 223-5700

Friday, May 29, 2015

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!!

New Second Location - Same Incredible BBQ!

Open EVERY DAY at 11:00 AM!

Like us on Facebook!

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St

Friday, May 22, 2015

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.

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!

Like us on Facebook!

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

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.

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!

Like us on Facebook!

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St