Bob's Your Uncle

Welcome to Bob's Your Uncle. We believe in "Great Food, Served by Friends" and try to live up to that, every meal, every customer. We opened this restaurant in April of 2005. The original Bob's Your Uncle opened on Mormon Trek Boulevard in southwest Iowa City since 2001. In November of 2009 our sister restaurant Monica's moved into the old Slugger's building on the Coralville strip. It still has the great pizza Bob's had and still offers free delivery, but now features elegant, traditional…

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Welcome to Bob's Your Uncle. We believe in "Great Food, Served by Friends" and try to live up to that, every meal, every customer. We opened this restaurant in April of 2005. The original Bob's Your Uncle opened on Mormon Trek Boulevard in southwest Iowa City since 2001. In November of 2009 our sister restaurant Monica's moved into the old Slugger's building on the Coralville strip. It still has the great pizza Bob's had and still offers free delivery, but now features elegant, traditional Italian food, along with American favorites. We have been very grateful for the customer response at Monica's.

Here at Bob's Your Uncle we offer comfort food from a big menu, as well as homemade gourmet pizza in 4 styles, the same way we did at The Airliner. There we won "Best Pizza in Iowa City" awards 7 years in a row, using traditional Italian slate ovens and the best fresh ingredients available.

Bob’s Your Uncle was chosen as the name for these restaurants because of its meaning in Great Britain and Australia that everything turned out well. The story of its origin is that Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, whose family name was Robert Cecile (thus “Bob”), appointed his unpopular nephew Arthur Balfour to a succession of political offices. The first in 1887 was Chief Secretary of Ireland, a post for which Balfour was considered unsuitable by many. The consensus among the irreverent in Britain seems to have been that to have Bob as your uncle guaranteed success, hence the expression and its meaning of things turning out very well for you.

Sal Hnesh is the Executive Head Chef for both Bob’s Your Uncle Pizza Cafe and Monica's Italian Bistro, with 27 years of experience as head chef at some of Iowa City’s best restaurants. We have worked together for more than 20 years now. I think we have a tremendous staff, led by Managers Amy Vernon, Haley Kemp, Megan Slach and Jessicah Ambrisco. We try very hard to be extremely employee-friendly so we can attract dedicated, spirited, and loyal people. By featuring flexible schedules that let them choose when they work, providing good working conditions and surrounding them with great co-workers, I think our customers feel the difference in their friendly service and desire to please.

My name is Randy Larson. I’ve been a practicing attorney in Iowa City for more than 29 years, and have enjoyed the restaurant business since 1992. I believe that locally-owned non-chain restaurants do some things better. We don't truck in pre-made frozen menu items; our chefs make your meal with the best fresh ingredients. We have more than 70 comfort foods on the menu designed to entice you to enjoy your favorites over and over again. Once you've tried pizza made with carefully handled dough made fresh daily and aged exactly right, topped with the most expensive boutique cheese from Grande, the best classic pizza sauce and toppings of the highest-quality like fresh-grilled Italian sausage, you'll love the difference.

"Great food, served by friends" isn't just a slogan or motto. Our very survival depends on living up to it. Most of our customers truly do become friends because they learn they can depend on us to care, to create food that is enjoyable, and to never take their patronage for granted.

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