Quinton’s Bar & Deli

This place is very much a letdown. Been here a couple times. They service is not really that great. you have to flag them down for the most part to get seen. Tons of flies in the place each time that i have gone. Not once, but twice i have been a sucker of getting a sandwich with avocado only to realize no way they use fresh avocado’s because it’s all smashed up. So my guess is they use guacamole bought in a bucket. Overall there must have been something redeeming about my first trip there to make me go back again, but i certainly won’t experience a third time

TJ the manager is horrible. He has no customer service skills. The comments about them not honoring coupons and groupons is absolutely true. The food quality has plummeted to zero. Unbelievably horrible experience. TJ needs to be fired. Lost 7 more customers tonight. He yells at customers and his employees in front of customers.

Went here on a Sunday afternoon around 3:15. There were maybe two other tables with people. We tried to order cheese balls, but they were out. We ordered two burgers and waited almost 45 minutes to get our food. When it finally arrived it was not very impressive. I ordered the bacon avocado burger and all the garnish looked old and tired. My husband had to go to the bar to get napkins and the side of ranch we had ordered. Ranch had a very strange taste to it, not sure what that was about. Overall it was ok, but I dont see any reason to return!

The first time I tried to use my Groupon at 1:00pm on Sunday, Oct. 4^th I was turned down. I called for a carry out order and alerted the female on the phone that I had a Groupon to use. She told me great, to just bring it in when I picked up my order. When I arrived and tried to give it to the male bartender to pay he said w/​no expression & without looking at it that I could not use it, as it’s for dine in only. When I looked at the fine print on the Groupon I saw that he was correct. I said that’s fine but please alert your staff member that I spoke w/​so she’s aware for future orders. He was rude in telling me that it’s up to me to know this and not the staff. He would have no idea who took the order as there are several females working. I could not believe the lack of customer service, and the unnecessary lie I was given. I’m certain they have the ability to see who placed the order to the kitchen staff. I was not trying to get the staff member in trouble, only trying to help them avoid an uncomfortable situation in the future. If he would have been a little sympathetic in telling me this, and said I will be sure to remind all of our staff of this policy so this doesn’t happen again I would have left a 20% tip. Instead I left 0% for experiencing very poor treatment and for being lied to.
I this was my business I would want to be aware that I have staff treating customers in this manner. I do not wish for this person to be fired, only to be put through training so that this restaurant/​bar can stay in business. I like this place and its location. It would be a shame if it went under.
I must say that when I returned last night to redeem my Groupon the server we had was excellent. I did not get her name, but she was very pleasant and very good at her job. I was happy to tip her above 20% of the full amount of our bill.

Food is excellent and the service is great. They have a wide variety of burgers, and the fires are to kill for! The bar tenders and staff are friendly. the major catch is not to come here on lunch. They get so crowded! I feel like they just get overwhelmed at a crowd and things slow down. Just order to go and you won’t be late from lunch!

Frank was the best bartender! He was so polite & knowledgeable. Food was good. He was so personable. He let me know that when I buy a burger that the sides can be an extra charge. He has a good sense humor.

Should’ve read the reviews before I came here. This place used to be decent but not this time. I ordered the half sandwich, bread bowl soup combo. The sandwich was small and not a whole lotta toppings. The soup was wrong and also watery. I told the waitress about the wrong soup and she brought out the correct one. But this beer cheese soup looked more like a dip than soup. Added to the fact that the bread bowl was probably recently thawed because it was cold and wet in parts. But the real kicker is the plate that the second soup came on was dirty. Not like a spot here the dishwasher missed either. I hope it was not intentional but the plate felt dirty and just put me off from ever returning to this restaurant.

I’ve eaten from here many times, both dining and take out. I’ve never been disappointed. Usually not too crowded so never a wait. Drinks are cheap and the menu is large. The Cook’s Deluxe has never let me down. Occasionally they will put on the peppercorn sauce when my fiancée asks for it off, but they make a new one very quick. The CCQ always a great choice. Food may seem greasy but it hits the spot.

The quality of food has gone significantly downhill over the years. Ordered the TAC which marketed as their most popular sandwich. It is supposed to have shaved turkey, avocado and cream cheese. The turkey was slimy (think Oscar Mayer), the «avocado» was guacamole that came out of a package and there was little cream cheese. Bar looked updated and service was ok but I will never eat here again.

I ordered the TAC with fries and cottage cheese. I have had the TAC many times before at the downtown location. usually it is turkey, avocado, sprouts, mayo piled high on thick cut bread of your choice. this sandwich looked deflated. visually disappointing. barely any turkey, the bread was too thin in proportion to the amount of avocado and cream cheese. utter disappointment. go back to the ways of old… can’t say that I will return. a real disappointment

Constantly messes up food. Ordered a BACON avocado burger but got no bacon, chipotle mayo, or tomato and the food was cold! Bacon is in the name! Come on were they even trying? When you walk in waitress kinda gave a dirty look and walked away! Never ordering again!

EVERYTIME we go to Quinton’s, regardless of the time of day or night, we literally wait AT LEAST 5 minutes to be even talked to or asked if we want something to drink. We always sit at the bar. My boyfriend and I are servers, have been for a long time, so we’re not being demanding.
We realize sometimes things get busy, but even when they’re not, the bartenders are more concerned with socializing with their friends that are in there or doing something that really isn’t important at the time, rather than saying hello to us and seeing if we want a menu or something to drink. Last time we went there, I finally just said «let’s go, we’ve been waiting for over 5 minutes and they’re not busy, this is ridiculous» and went to Texas Roadhouse instead.
The food is very sub-​par. Those things they call «fries»… what the hell? Drenched in grease and thin as can be… yuck. I got the bread bowl a couple of times… it’s a total rip-​off. You get 80% bread and 20% soup. I’m not kidding, you take 5 or 6 bites of your soup and that’s all you get. The rest is bread. I can’t believe it!
I don’t even want to come here anymore to drink, the service is just not good behind the bar and the bartenders are more concerned with talking to their friends than helping actual paying customers who pay full price for their drinks.

I finally went back to Quintons, long awaiting to finally try a bread bowl. I got the broccoli cheddar bread bowl with the T.A.C. I was disappointed last time and unfortunately I was disappointed again. The sandwich had very thick mayo and cream cheese on it which provided a very unpleasant combo of texture and taste. The avocado was brown and stringy. Overall, easily one of the worst sandwiches I’ve had in a very long time.
The soup was OK, but there were a few burnt bits of cheese and broccoli swimming in the soup. The bread of the bowl was only soft in some parts and quite hard in others. The parmesan garlic chips were the only pleasant thing about this experience.
I had high hopes, which was apparently my downfall. I doubt I will return again.

I ordered the bacon and avocado burger and house fries. The service was nothing to complain about but the food was underwhelming and a bit disappointing. The fries were soggy but had good flavor. I asked for a well done burger and I bit into it and the middle was pink ad cold. The oppings were not fresh what so ever, the avocado was browna d the bacon was soggy. I won;t be coming back.

Walked in and the smell of fryer oil was overwhelming. Ordered a burger, medium. When I first saw the burger I thought it was a joke-​very small. Worse yet, over cooked. The fries are usually good but tonight they were cool and soggy. The past few visits here have been so-​so at best… I don’t think I’ll be coming back.

A small sports bar but he food and service is good. We stop here every time we come to Iowa City.

Nice bartender and good beer list. But sitting at the bar on a fairly slow Saturday afternoon, and they served both of my beers in plastic cups. Really? Stay away from Cobb salad – no bacon or avocado.

We stopped in around 3 – 4 on a Saturday, wasn’t busy. Service was OK, but seemed a bit too relaxed/​casual; food didn’t take too long though and it came out hot… Flavor was good on the chicken philly, (would have been so much better on a hoagie bun with more grilled veggies) …the jalapeño bites and spuds were really rich, but good! Overall decent — I’d go back and give ‘em another shot!

Used to be one of my favorite places, but I won’t be back after my last visit. Showed up for lunch and the place was empty, we ordered sandwiches and it took over a half hour to get our food. My water had a bunch of black, dirt like things floating in it. My sandwich had more mayo than anything else on it and gross slimy lettuce. My dad’s salad was full of more slimy, brown lettuce. The homemade fries had good flavor but were limp and not fried like they should have been. Oh yeah, I can’t forget to mention all the nasty flies flying around either… definitely won’t be back unless I hear that they’ve made some major changes.

Holy overload of fries Batman. Seriously, they give you a huge amount of fries with your burger. Enough for at least two people. Seriously, I couldn’t eat all of them and I was hangry when I went there.
So enough about the overwhelming amount of fries, and onto the burger. I tried the loaded grilled cheese burger on the recommendation of a friend after complaining about trying to find good burgers since moving back. I can stop complaining now. This was a tasty burger. The patty was juicy, well seasoned, and tasty. The cream cheese did get to be a little too much by the time I got done with the burger, but it wouldn’t stop me from ordering again. After all, you kind of have to expect that when you order a burger with that much cheese on it.