Restaurant Iron - Pensacola (FL)

4 /5 Stephtakingontheworld: Visited Restaurant Iron with friends for dinner and it was definitely a treat! We were seated immediately upon arriving and were greeted by our server. We skipped appetizers to ensure we left room for our dinner. The butternut squash soup was delicious! The short rib and pasta was made to perfection. I was disappointed with the cheeseburger as they had no lettuce or tomato to add. It was plain and would recommend something different on the menu. We ended with their seasonal crème brûlée which was very creamy. The restaurant lighting was dim and quiet. My only recommendation was to have the server visit the table sooner to order. There seemed to be long periods where we were waiting for her to arrive and take our order.

3 /5 Dana Deutsch: I live part time in Pcola and had read many great things about Iron and the reviews on google rate it high. I can say from my experience that for the price points, it falls short in delivering a true high end experience. The menu is compact and we had a good sampling of the dishes offered. Uniformly everything we tried was over salted, overly contrived and lacked complexity of flavor. The Ruben sandwich, had promise but came on a disappointing, commercially made marble rye. A local bakery could have saved this. The $15 dumplings, more appropriately should be called, fried wontons, were plainly horrible. They did, kindly, remove it from our bill. The pork leg brewed soy sauce, that sauced the dumplings was an epic salty fail. The one outstanding, exception on the menu, was the shrimp and grits. Creamy grits, perfectly cooked shrimp and seasoning were fantastic. Presentations were beautiful, giving the impression as the dishes piled in the kitchen window, visible from the dining room, that you were soon to have a great meal. Service was distracted and unfocused. Plates stacked, silver between courses was not replenished without ask, at one point a server passed our table and told my date she had dropped her napkin. Petty, maybe but in a restaurant striving for this level of prestige and fine dining protocol it should have been picked up and offered back to her. Service overall was friendly and in good spirit, just lacking professional touches that would justify the price tag and the upscale approach. The atmosphere was fun.

5 /5 Kayla F.: This restaurant has earned my favorite place to send people to eat when asked my favorite local restaurant! From the service to the experience, to the meal itself- everything was a 10/10. We made reservations and were quickly seated upon arrival. The restaurant is quiet, but you are sat close together. Our server explained the menu in great depth and helped us select our meals. I have never had every single bite of anything and everything we ordered taste so outstanding to the point you cant pick one favorite part. The appetizers, the main course, the dessert and the coffee- all of it was pure perfection. I now send all of my employees here for their meal when they reach their anniversary date, as it is a great experience EVERY SINGLE TIME.

5 /5 Ken Wofford: The food, service, atmosphere were all amazing! The food was extremely delicious and coupled with a custom cocktail (i had a Manhattan)...my taste buds were experiencing euphoria. The staff and service were amazing too! Our waitress was so nice, funny, and helpful. We ordered the quail and waffle along with truffle fries for appetizer and we ordered the braised short ribs and chorizo spiced chicken. All of it was delicious but i especially liked the braised shirt rib and the rutabaga mash under it was soooo good! We also had a chocolate nutella desert (cant remember name of it) that was amazing as well and it wasnt overpowered with Nutella flavor. I highly recommend this place!

2 /5 Adam Krey: We went there for lunch. It wasn’t what we were expecting for the price point: - The chicken skin appetizer was bland and needed the spicy dipping sauce (regular Thai dipping sauce?). - The blackened chicken sandwich was surprisingly soggy on the bottom making it sloppy to eat, and the chicken filled barely over 1/2 the sandwich. Otherwise, the sandwich was good. - The grilled cheese, tomato bisque, and pasta salads were pretty good (especially the pasta salad). - The water cups and the martini glasses smelled like dirty dishes. DISGUSTING! - When the waitress took our appetizer plates she took our forks off the plates and placed them back on the bare table—at this price point I would have expected new forks. -Our sodas came out in cans…ummm…this is a $50-$100 per person restaurant…CANS?!? Save your money and get cleaner service at a street vendor.