Minervas Food Cocktails - Sioux City

Inexperienced waiter. Told them when I made the reservation it was a birthday celebration. The waiter had no clue. Food was oversauced. We had a great time, but not because of the food or service. Like so many things these days, we lost good customer service and people taking pride in their work.

Worst meal ever. After waiting 25 minutes after placing our order, we had to ask our waitress if she could please check on our salads. Three minutes later she delivered them to our table. As we were about halfway through eating them, our dinners were delivered. My wife ordered the seafood risotto which was mostly risotto and not much seafood. I ordered the Wednesday night special which was a top sirloin with garlic mashed potatoes. The meat was so tough that I could hardly cut it, let alone chew it.

We try to go for brunch at Minervas after Church on Sundays as often as we can do so with our schedule. Brunch is excellent, except that I must say that the biscuits are on the HARD SIDE--definitely not soft/fluffy style Southern biscuits; and, the gravy, on occasion, is hard, that is, the gravy needs more moisture in it's composition in order to put it over one's biscuit if one desires to do so. Attentive staff, nice atmosphere, and, good selection of breakfast items that we enjoy having for brunch. I am glad that we do have a restaurant of high quality such as Minervas here in Sioux City. Parking: Plenty of parking in the parking lot.

I feel like it's gone downhill. My $9 martini was less than half full, the lettuce wraps were just chicken carrots with floppy lettuce. Chicken Marsala was good. Drinks menu was very small. Too spendy for what you get.

It’s a great place with a great happy hour. Only let down tonight was 2 of the beers that people at my table ordered were both out of stock.