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    Dottie's Cafe

    3.7 (61 reviews)
    Closed 5:30 am - 1:30 pm

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    DOTTIE'S CAFE ATMOSPHERE

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    Casual
    Quiet
    Good for groups
    Dogs allowed

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    Cinnamon roll--only available on weekends--with perfect bacon!
    Mary P.

    Wow! What a fun place to eat!! A fun diner in a cool building! The waitress was awesome--energetic & humorous!! The food was fairly priced. Two had biscuits and gravy & thought it was good. Two others had bacon, eggs, hash browns & toast. The bacon was crispy, as were the hash browns. Friend's skillet was tasty. My cinnamon roll--only served on weekends--was yummy & big. Waitress kept us up in drinks. We'd love to come back!!

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    Steven T.

    This place has been on my radar for a couple years now but with so many choices in town it took a while to get here so I stopped by for lunch. It's nothing fancy with a breakfast counter and cafeteria cheap booths and tables. The menu is not huge but it's a simple cafe. I had the hillbilly surprise which I re arranged by removing the English muffin and adding biscuits, removing the ham and adding sausage patties, removing the Swiss cheese and adding American topped with two eggs and sausage gravy which sounds so much better. I had hash browns with onions topped with American cheese. WOW all that re arranging and they got everything right. My food came quickly and it was piping hot and delicious.

    Breakfast skillet
    Maria T.

    I love classic breakfast diner food, it is my favorite type of breakfast food and Doties has always pleased me. It's always consistent every time, cheap compared to other places and I'm always greeted by the same friendly servers each time. The only thing I wish was better is the size! It gets seriously busy on the weekends so plant to get there super early!

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    Stevie S.

    Atmosphere was amazing, lots of food for the low prices and the staff is so funny! Quiet place, not a lot of traffic going by. One of the only restaurants that doesn't have a single Tv, which is so nice

    Jeni H.

    Quintessential small town diner. Great food. Great service. Will definitely come back when I'm in town.

    Rohan D.

    I love this place. You might want to have some context to see if you'll also love this place. When I was a kid this sort of diner was where America went out for breakfast. When I was a young man, diners like this was where my workday started and finished (I worked 24 hour shifts). And now that I'm middle aged, my breakfasts at home have to be high fiber, low in fat and calories. Here, I can pretend it's somewhere between 1968 and 1978 and still don't have any idea what a cholesterol ratio is. Three women can handle a crowd filling every table and no one has to wait. Every order is perfect. Nothing fancy about the high octane bottomless black coffee, but it's fresh and hot and always topped off. Traditional American breakfast, and when I left I wanted to say, "You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." But I couldn't. The waitress wasn't named Dottie and I knew I would be back the next day.

    Marchal P.

    Just a very small old school dinner. It has great service and great food at a fair price

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    Great food great service nice little restaurant with some old time feel definitely would go again if I'm in town

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    3 years ago

    Fabulous breakfast, great and friendly service. A great, hometown diner experience. Love the downtown location!

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    Breakfast was good. Hard to mess up. Service was friendly and good. It's a dive for sure, but clean.

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    Great breakfast! Great Prices!!! The cinnamon rolls are a must! This place doesn't have frill, but it is definitely worth the trip!

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    Great simple old school breakfast place. Cute n clean !!! Would stop by again for sure

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    Good breakfast offerings. Very busy on a Sunday morning. Price was in line with food. No complaints. Interesting place. Would go back.

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    Such a nice quaint breakfast place. Food was good. Two sisters run this place and they do a great job. So happy we stopped.

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    If you get to Dubuque, you need to stop in and eat breakfast. This is a small town diner that has great food.

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    We were able to secure a reservation for our large group as we had alot of family coming into town…read morefor a funeral. I called them on Thursday for a Saturday night reservation and they were able to accommodate us. I ordered the Salmon entree- it came with dill sauce and a baked potato and I selected vegetable beef soup (the soup of the day). Husband ordered the NY strip with mushrooms and the garlic mashed potatoes and a house salad. You have a piece of corn bread waiting at your place setting when you arrive. They also serve dinner rolls. It's a tremendous amount of food. My daughter ordered the same thing I did except she subbed her potato for broccoli ($3 upcharge) We had a glass of wine as well. Service was quick and efficient, they had two people serving our table. Everyone received their entrées at the same time and all courses were served at once. Was very efficient and friendly. The total was $150 for the three of us before tip.

    Timmerman's is one of those special locations that has managed to keep the ambience back from the…read more60s. I used to drive by this restaurant for years I was going from Iowa over to Chicago. It took my retiring to finally start dying dining here. It's about a 70 minute ride from Cedar rapids Iowa to this location but we do it over and over and over again. That should tell you something about how good they are. Their service is outstanding. The food is great never had a bad meal. My wife has Alzheimer's and she always enjoys the ride up in the view overlooking the river. I had to ask for tables along the outside to get the best view of the river. It was suggested I might want to make a reservation to be sure I would get one if available. We've eaten various items all over the menu you can't go wrong with anything it's all great. If you haven't tried it you should.

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