Myers Grill & Catering

Okay. I really value reviews and that is the only reason we want here. Seriously sketchy looking and my husband and kids were like «Are you kidding? This is it?» But I can honestly say we had a great time and it was a great adventure. Service was great. Small town friendly. Love the writing all over the walls. Waitress gave us a marker for us to sign our names. We have teenage boys so we loved the big portions of steaks and food in general. Of everything we ordered I think the best was the bacon wrapped pork tenderloins. Amazing!
Okay now we can say we’ve eaten in a garage. Not sure that was on my bucket list but did it anyway.

This place may not look like much. Once you taste the food, you feel like you are dining on five star cuisine! The staff is friendly and fun. The environment is cozy and intimate. I recommend this place to everyone! It’s worth every penny. It’s a perfect example of «don’t judge a book by its cover»

Got off the highway looking for lunch. As I’m always trying to find local places to eat as I travel. This is a hidden jewel, it’s actually behind a house with limited parking. You actually enter threw the kitchen. Owner is cooking and taking orders. This is definitely a locals place, be nice they will be nice back. Smoked Tuna salad sandwich was one special today and it was excellent.

What a great find! I highly recommend stopping here if you’re in the area. Excellent salmon cakes! I was reluctant to order seafood, but these are great. The bacon wrapped pork loin was also excellent. We both had the pea salad, which was just a bit heavy on the onion for me. Friendly service.

Probably one of the best places I have ever ate at. Never planned on doing a Unilocal review… but had to for this place. They were super friendly and make you feel welcomed. Was in town for construction work and decided to stop there. I live in St. Paul Minnesota and would drive 5 hours from where I live just to eat here. Go here!

Diamond in the rough. Best pork sandwich. Very nice people. Ya walk in and think you are in the kitchen, and you are. Wish them all the best. Thank you for a great lunch. It’s a small place, but no problem getting a table. Can bring your own beer or wine… didn’t know that. Next time!!!

If it had not been recommended by Robert at the Crest Country Inn, I would probably not have eaten here. It is in a converted garage behind a house. Very easy to miss. The food was excellent. My wife and I both had the minestrone soup as a side — probably the best I have ever had! I would have between happy to have just eaten the soup. My main course was the liver and onions, not something I get at home. The liver was cooked to perfection and served with bacon. The only complaint I could have had was that was that none of the onions were caramelized until they were black and crunchy/​chewy, but that may be my personal preference. Very friendly. Definitely affordable — for the two of us the cost including tip was under $ 30.
This restaurant is truly a hidden gem.

Amazing food! We were on our way home from Des Moines, Ia, and stopped in for dinner. Thank you, other Unilocalers, for giving them a great review. My husband had the ribeye, and I had the bacon-​wrapped pork loin with honey mustard sauce — both were great! Small restaurant and not a lot of seating, so I would recommend calling ahead for reservations, if at all possible. We walked in, and it was fine. We got seated right away. 5 stars from us!

Just wonderful food and service. I had 14oz sirlion and hash browns. All was great hash browns are the bomb. Easy to miss small sign so be watchful. Next time in town i will be here for sure. All hotel people in town worth it for sure!
Homemade everything

After walking out of the place recommended by our hotel, we used Unilocal to find another nearby restaurant. This was it, though we missed it the first few times we drove past, since it is down a driveway, behind a house. It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but the chef guided us in the right door. The inside reminded me a little of the original Gino’s East in Chicago with writing on the walls and ceiling. Essentially you sit on the edge of the fully open kitchen. Its not remotely fancy, but this place delivers some of the best food you will find in mid-​America. The dude can cook! The wife had the Catfish with Baked Potato and a Brocco-​collie salad. I had the Reuben Sandwich and a garden salad. The catfish was 3 huge pieces delicately fried. Fabulous. The Reuben was perhaps the best I’ve ever had. I learned that they brine and smoke their own corned beef. While the Baked Potato and garden salad were fine, they weren’t particularly outstanding. The Brocco-​collie salad stood out as very fresh and flavorful. They start with hot homemade rolls dusted with cheese — not to be missed! Service from our young and cheerful server was superb. All this was about $ 20 plus tax! This place is salvation in a town that is otherwise a food disaster. If you are anywhere in the area, you must try it.

Yea, verily, there is a restaurant in the shed hidden behind the house on highway 149 in Williamsburg across from the market. What they lack in a posh appearance, they replace with good food with reasonable prices. When you can bring your own wine, without restaurant markups and corkage charges, it’s a total bargain.

This place is a gem in a small town — located on the left side of the road just as you head into Williamsburg. Look for the small sign and turn down a driveway. As I told friends we took there last weekend — if the guys are in golf clothes and the ladies in a dress you are overdressed for this place! The menu is on a dry erase board that they move table to table. Take your own beer or wine — no alcoholic beverages are served or allowed in. No corkage fee either! We had a ribeye, 2 sea bass and a pork dish for $ 50! I WOULD STRONGLY MAKE A RESERVATION WHETHER YOU THINK YOU NEED TO OR NOT. We always have and this past weekend during our visit 3 groups showed up w/​out a reservation and I thought the lady owner was going to commit harry carey. Nice problem to have if you ask me though. And by all means be ready to order when they come to your table — she threw her menu pad on the counter when I asked for a few more minutes! On other visits she has been friendlier so I am guessing she was just having a bad day. But I know on future visits I will be ready to order! I think you have about ⁸⁄₁₀ entrees to choose from and each come w/​2 sides! You really are not going to find a better place to eat I the area & it is an experience to try. Myers is located only 20 minutes from the Old Creamery Theatre in Amana — a nice evening to do dinner and then a play! PS the only reason I’m not giving this place 5 stars is simply because of the owners recent attitude.

An interesting place to experience, Myer’s Grill is a decent small-​town option for dining, especially if you’re traveling on I80 and missed or cannot wait for something in Iowa City. The owners are friendly, there’s a dog that may bark at you while standing on the edge of a balcony when you park, and it’s pretty easy to miss as you drive into Williamsburg, but inside, you can watch the cook in the kitchen and the dining area has a commemorative and unique small-​town feel to it. The food is simple, homemade, and varied.

Just had a sandwich which was decent. Unique atmosphere. Chef converted a garage into a dining establishment. Great prices and small town feel. Like going to Grandma house. Fun stop!

Well, this is an eccentric little place. As has been noted, the restaurant is pretty much a converted garage extension behind the owner’s house. We actually drove past it the first time because it’s easy to miss. You walk through the kitchen to get to the seating area. I had to persuade my wife to keep going and not turn around upon walking in because she insisted we were going through the wrong door.
The décor is casual to say the least — for lack of a better term I’d call it rural hippie eclectic. The floor was uncovered, unfinished concrete because this is, after all, a large garage. The tables and chairs could have been lifted right out of an abandoned Route 66 diner. The walls and ceiling are festooned with the inane scrawls of previous patrons, Gino’s East-​style. Antique signs hung here and there.
And best we could tell, they were the only place within a 20-​mile radius that knew how to cook a proper burger, hence the 4-​star rating. (To be fair, we never got to try the much-​praised Phat Daddy’s in nearby Marengo for comparison.) The only complaints were minor: First, the waitress whom we believed to also be the co-​proprietor seemed disinterested, as if she’d rather be washing her hair or minding a herd of goats than waiting on us. (ETA: And it turns out she’s also incredibly thin-​skinned as I received this message from her: «You are one f***ed up a**hole, do you just make a living of giving sh*thole reviews??? Seems like it!!!» Minutes later the husband/​owner also sent me an equally unhinged nastygram. Really classy pair, these two.) And second, the prices were a little steeper than we expected from a makeshift diner in a two-​car town in the middle of bumblesnot Iowa. But the food did live up to the asking price, so ultimately we were satisfied.

Another amazing restaurant in a place that we wouldn’t know existed aside from the invention of the map. Set off the main road, the atmosphere is set as soon as you pull up as the place is located, literally, inside a gutted out house. You walk through the kitchen on your way to your table, but it never truly goes away as the place is completely open. The walls are decorated with eclectic offerings from former patrons as well as signatures from those that have come before. It’s seriously impressive how many people have signed this place!
Now to the serious talk, the food. Mike, the cook, is an amazingly trained cook and loves what he does! The Alfredo sauce he makes is some of the best we’ve ever tasted and he serves up some great dishes ranging from pastas to delicious pork ribs and make things in between!
It’s a BYOB spot so grab your favorite beverage (we’ve seen $ 100 bottles of wine as well as cases of Busch lite) and enjoy it with some great grub.
Perhaps the most impressive part to Myer’s is the service though. We brought some friends in one night and had some cheese from the Amana colonies. We asked if they would cut it up for us and not only did they do that, but they made an incredible spread that included slices whole, melted on bread and a compote made for the occasion. We’ve never been treated as less than close friends in this place and they do it for everyone!
Another tid-​bit — Each year they try to break the record for tallest corn stalk. If you go in the fall, the stalks grace the fence as you come in!
Seriously, check this place out. Great food and even better stories about a place that’s unlike anywhere you’ve ever been and will leave you wanting to try everything on the menu!

Meyer’s Grill is an experience. As you pull into the parking lot by the light of a sky blue and fluorescent orange sign you realize that the restaurant is located in a converted garage. Upon opening the front door you walk through the kitchen and into the dining room. The only thing that separates the two rooms is the cash register.
A retired hippie chef/​owner reigns over an amazing menu that is prepared before your eyes in a clean kitchen. With a good dose of patience the service is quite quirky, as is the waitress. You may have to repeat things a few times, but she is a sweetheart. When we dined there for the first time she was wearing a vintage Alf t-​shirt.
Meyer’s does not have a liquor license, so BYOB. You are able to bring whatever you like as a beverage, otherwise they serve soda from cans and iced tea from a jug that they place on your table allowing you to pour yourself.
Décor is reminiscent of a guy’s garage hangout. Diners are encouraged to write their compliments to the chef upon the walls and ceiling.
All in all the food is spectacular and you will definitely walk away a happy person.