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    The Periodic Table

    3.2 (18 reviews)
    Closed 4:00 pm - 10:00 PM

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    Costa Rican mahi street taco and Kansas City BBQ StoneFire pizza
    Dan F.

    The periodic table is the best kept secret in Grinnell. It is quite simply great food, beautifully presented, fun, fantastic atmosphere. Huge outdoor patio with fire pits and then cornhole. There's a huge indoor game room, with Scrabble on the wall and all sorts of boardgames. There's a bar with three TVs showing regional sports whenever possible. The menu is my idea of perfect: innovative and creative recipes, and not too many of them. I don't need an overwhelming menu or a kitchen thing. Just do a few things well. That's the. Periodic Table. For dinner last night, I had the Costa Rican mahi street taco for $12. These were two well stuffed tacos - the taco shells were more like naan, which was delicious- filled with fresh fish, sweet corn salsa, and drizzled with dill sour cream. Other tacos include Korean beef, Indian butter chicken, bánh mì spicy pork, and black beans in a balsamic glaze. A trip around the world in a taco in the middle of Iowa! My companion had a Buddha bowl with black beans, brown rice, pico de gallo and avocado. You could also get a linguine bowl with marinara, cream and wild mushrooms, and the option to add chicken, or a Japanese noodle bowl in which you could add a flat iron steak. We shared a StoneFire pizza for $10. Ours came with Kansas City BBQ, including pulled pork and red onion. Out of this world. I had a five dollar Mojito mocktail that was so refreshing. They've got a great cocktail selection for nine dollars each, $10 for the classic cocktails, but they'll make the mocktails for five bucks which so rarely see and really appreciate. We went over the top for dessert and head a s'more's pizza. Really fun and tasty. I was tempted to get the chocolate fondue but that just sounded like it was too much! Might've done it if we had a few more people. This is definitely in the top three restaurants in Grinnell but I just can't believe it wasn't getting more love on Yelp! It is in the fabulous Hotel Grinnell, but it is definitely not your standard Hotel fare.Check it out!

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    Overpriced and underwhelming. We ordered two salads; probably not the best idea at 9:30pm since the lettuce was wilted and soggy.

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    5 years ago

    Great service! Fun atmosphere! Clean! The hotel employs college kids so for new parents it's a great place for Grinnell info.

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