Restaurant IRON

The food was melt in your mouth, you don’t want to swallow it because it tastes so delicious, good. If I had to pick one word to describe my visit tonight I would say phenomenal. We started with Waygu beef mushroom ragu and it was like that I don’t feel good and my mom made me my favorite dish just what you want deliciousness then we had the Lamb three ways (5 stars) and the duck was so tender and juicy one of my top favorite meals of all time.

Cool environment. Good food… fresh and interesting. Interesting drink menu. Would like to go back and sit at the Chef’s Tasting Table. Desserts were really, really good

Favorite restaurant in Pensacola hands down. Drinks are awesome, especially their old fashioned. Favorite dishes: fried oysters, rib eye steak, and bread pudding. Rarely get out of here for less than $ 75, but I eat like a glutton… so take that for what it’s worth.
Waitstaff is awesome… especially Laura!
Also, check out the late night menu — drinks are half price after 10pm.

Hands down my favorite place to go! Best food, best bartenders, best drinks… need I say more. If you can’t get a reservation for a table, sit at the bar and you’ll never want a table again. Both bartenders are awesome, great drinks and conversation. But, we usually try to sit with Campbell if you’re requesting somebody.

My wife and I had our 5^th Year Anniversary dinner here. We ate off their winter menu and had the flank steak and duck. Also a few drinks. Truly 5 star food and service.
We went on a Wednesday and got there early and pretty much had the restaurant to ourselves until the end. Duck was amazing as well as their white truffle fries. I couldn’t ask for more. Will definitely be a repeat customer for special occasions.
With appetizer, 2 mains, and about 5 drinks between us we spent only 110 $.

This is about 4.5 stars restaurant. Price is in the high side but worth the meal. The cuisine is good use of the local produce and techniques to prepare the food. I like the group of young people from the chef to the bar manager to create this successful restaurant.
I start with the drink — Iron Goddess. This drink is the tequila, grind basil, lemon and the elderflower soft drink. It garnish with pink red color make this drink very sensual.
Our appetizer is the Classic French Escargot. It came with crispy bread with brie. It top with herb and tarragon. The escargot is well cook with the sauce. The Brie is great to pickup with the bread. They also give a compliment chill and freezes cantaloupe top with with mysterious seed. Nice touch.
My entrée is the Ancho Chili Rubbed Muscovy Duck. It come with Braise Brussels Sprouts with parsnip purée. The plate drizzled two sauces and the side is the sear grade A Foie. This a good dish to enjoy. The duck is cook to very tender. The foie gras is seared perfectly.
I end my night with salted caramel bread pudding. It accompanied with dulce de leche ice cream. It was wonderful to end the evening. Service is great. Very informative.

Pretty surprisingly awesome. Prices are a little steep so we had high expectations but they delivered on all counts at Iron. The service was good with an especially excellent hostess; our server was attentive and accommodating though it was endearingly clear she was not a foodie. The wine list could have been more thoughtful but was sufficient; Iron also features a full bar menu with good options. The bacon kale and Caesar salads were good starters but it was the generously portioned entrees that really shined. We had the duck with foie gras, Brussels sprouts, puréed parsnips and blackberry sauce as well as the salmon with tasty sides of roasted squash and a deliciously prepared grain sprinkled with pine nuts. They were really good and presented in a truly gorgeous fashion! Iron really delivered on presentation and flavor – a fantastic overall experience!

The food was delicious, server was great but for some reason the hostess was very «snooty» and unwelcoming.
Everything is made in house to include sodas and gummy bears. The atmosphere is cute but it’s just Pensacola– the hostess truly needs to relax. The menu seems seasonal so don’t depend on the photos you see on Unilocal to be available as the menu was completely different.
Four stars for food and server, one star take away for hostess.

This is artistically the most aesthetically pleasing food in Pensacola. It ranks in the top two of my favorite food in the city as well. Bright young local chef there, Alex, has always been creative as I have followed his career through many incredible restaurants. It is pricey, but is the highest and option and town. Make your reservations early as they book up often. The deconstructed chicken and dumplings is so amazing, and you can never go wrong with the nightly fresh feature.

Dinner here was really exceptional. This place could easily hold its own against restaurants in big cities.
Cocktails were pure theater and delicious. Had the Smoked Old Fashioned. Love the bacon garnish.
Shared fried oyster appetizer. Had duck entrée, and finished with key lime pot de crème because Florida.

We sat at the bar as we were early for our reservation. The mixologists were polite, professional, shook our hands and asked our names — and then addressed us by our names when asking us questions and serving our drinks.
Once our table was ready, the device was impeccable. The server knew each and every item and how to accommodate my gluten allergy. She gave excellent wine suggestions for my meal.
Our favorite thing of the night though, was the menu. My husband booked the reservation online and you can include a special note. He wrote «Four Year Anniversary Dinner.» When we were seated at our table, a personalized menu had been printed for us and placed on the table. It said «Happy Four Year Anniversary Mr and Mrs Duncan!» At the top of the page.

My husband and I went here for our anniversary on Tuesday. The atmosphere is really good, the smoked old fashion was superb; same with the cheese plate started and the soup. I was disappointed with my main though. i asked the waiter which I should get the redfish or the rabbit as I’d never had rabbit before. He assured me it wasn’t gamey and was really light. then added: «That way when you tell people you came to IRON, you can tell them you had rabbit!»
Well it was so salty it was nearly inedible, he never checked back to see if I liked it.: ~ /

I grew up in Pensacola and was curious as to whether or not the culinary world in this mid to small sized city had gotten any better as it has grown in size over the years. Restaurant Iron has brought a young innovative chef and enlightened Pensacola on what fine food is supposed to be. The restaurant offers seasonal inspired dishes keeping the menu fresh throughout the year. It keeps up with the traditions of larger more well known chefs and restaurants in quality and execution. I should know as I’ve dined at L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Hubert Keller’s Fleur de Lys, Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill and others. A few of the dishes I had:
Crawfish and Macaroni: who doesn’t like a southern seafood favorite with a classic American home dish?
Crispy Cornmeal Oysters: delicious, hot and melt in your mouth
Ancho Chili Duck: tender duck with yummy foie in an interesting spicy/​sweet combination of blackberry sauce
I visit Pensacola at least once yearly and will return to Iron. I look forward to the prix fixe and Chef’s course menu to see if Chef Alex McPhail can create an experience from start to beginning that shows his execution of a harmonious dining experience. I would encourage the chef to continue exploring flavor profiles that integrate the best of what the Gulf and the South offers with the modernity of cuisine today. I would like to see more interesting choices in ingredients that play off a yin-​yang element but at the same time compliment each other really well. Pensacola needs more shocking unknown ingredients to shake up its palate. The servers and staff are all delightful and accommodating. I’ll see you again Iron!

Iron has changed– feels bright and more hip. Atmosphere is great. Now closer to town. The staff is the same with great attentive service. We brought kids and they were engaged by staff. Menu looks intriguing. Came only for dessert tonight as place was packed.
Small space though. The drink selection not as good — as from Marcus pointe. Desserts were fantastic. But the pound cake was more summer like than a winter dessert. The bread pudding had excellent flavor and dense but slightly dry. But we finished all of them. The martini, beer and wine were nice pours. Their coffee machine was down but will be fixed.
Got complimentary Guinness cookies. Yummy

I wish there were more restaurants in the Pensacola area like the Iron. As competition is a good thing, and in this case, I think it would be a great thing. The Iron offers outstanding service, eclectic sustainable food, on an artful plate.
There were foods that I liked and didn’t however, over all, I would go back again and again. The Iron is a place you have to go just during sunset, it is then that it is reminiscent of the old «Tavern on the Green» restaurant, that was located in New York’s Central Park. Iron sits on the Marcus Pointe golf course, and during these hours or moments the color is beautiful.
The staff is unparalleled, batted group go professionals, where you feel very catered too. There was an initial starter of compressed watermelon and raspberry caviar, this was used as a paler cleanser, and it was a start of good things to come. Then the order of fried oysters, escargot for appetizers. The fried oysters were excellent; however, I felt that these oysters in a restaurant of this calibre under rated The Iron. excellently done, but very simple. Still I liked them. The escargot, well, I like the classic, as I view escargot as a little rubber plug, that absorbs flavor. The classic, well thats garlic butter and parsley with french bread. The Iron’s version is one of brie cheese in a crème sauce. It was very good, but I miss the classic. Next came the Cesar Salad, which I also found a little busy, again I like the classics. I was good, but busy. I must be a simplistic man.
As an entrée I ordered the lamb chops, with Juniper yogurt and lentil salad, my friend ordered the Scallops. The Lamb Chops were out of this world, seasoned perfectly and plated like a Van Gogh. It was scrumptious. My friends scallops were also a beautiful work of art, and cooked to perfection.
Dessert of fried nutella ravioli, OMG, they were fantastic I wanted to order more of them to go!
The price point, well it’s high, but I feel well worth it. Iron gives Pensacolaians a temple to pray for more restaurants and talented chefs like this one.
I know I was harsh on some items, that would make Iron not deserving of five stars. But, it’s not that these items didn’t taste well, they did, and there was a lot of effort to prepare them; however, I just know that I like theses same dishes prepared in a more simplistic original manner.

Dinner last night was fun and delicious. Reservations were at 5:30. Our party decided to order some of the small plate options so we could try more menu items. Glad we did. Started off with a cute little complimentary amuse-​bouche of compressed melon with pomegranate pearls… tasty.
After a lot of menu scrutiny, the four of us selected fried oysters, pork belly, escargot and the deconstructed Caesar salad. The clear winners were the cornmeal crusted fried oysters and the beer braised and pan roasted pork belly. Good Lord, they were delicious. The presentations were spot on and the cuvee of accompanying sauces was sublime. The Caesar salad was also very tasty… crunchy romaine leaves deftly threaded through a crispy ring-​like croûton, covered in silky ribbons of parmesan cheese… topped off with house made dressing. The escargot was ok… not great. It was bit toothsome (as it can be) and needed some garlic and a bit of citrus. Maybe it was because the other choices were so good in comparison.
On to the entrees… we selected the Wagyu flank steak, the double cut pork chop, duck breast and the 20 ounce rib eye. All were beautifully plated with some extraordinary sauces as accompaniment. All but the ribeye were fantastic… it was just ok, but the savory mushroom bread pudding that came with it was delicious. I especially liked the seared fois gras which nicely complemented the duck. My recommendation is to try the more eclectic menu options.
Our wine selection was an excellent choice (2011 Napa cabernet) as recommended by our attentive and knowledgeable server. We could have ordered by-​the-​glass, but were glad we went with a couple of bottles of the cab. Next time I’ll try one of their craft cocktails.
Desserts were wonderful. We chose the salted caramel bread pudding, the crème brulee and the flourless chocolate torte. The clear winner here was the bread pudding! And the French press coffee was great.
All of this was presented by an extremely competent wait staff and kitchen team that left nothing to be improved upon. We were highly satisfied with this dinner service and look forward to our next visit.