Fireside Grille

FIRESIDE GRILLE in Altoona catered my wedding earlier this month. 51 of my guests started having food poisoning symptoms around the same time early the next morning, some having symptoms lasting 48 hours or longer. Everyone that got sick had a few things in common, they ate the food from Fireside Grille and they all got sick around the same time. I called the Fireside Grille manager immediately after realizing that a lot of my guests were having these issues. I felt the manager had no concern for the fact that so many people became ill, and tried to find blame in it being caused by something else. I then called the Iowa Health Department to have this investigated. They did an investigation into the Fireside Grille restaurant and found 5 violations, one of them being that they had meat stored at 44.7 degrees F. Any meat stored at a temperature higher than 40 degrees F. Can grow bacteria rapidly, causing illness. (This is all public information, btw) I'm writing this review to warn people, because I feel Fireside Grille won't take any accountability and it could happen again.

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Asked for a bit, came out with 3 tiny pieces of bacon and the bread was hard as a rock. Need a filtration system on the water, it tasted awful. Waitress was nice but with no one else in the restaurant our drinks sat empty and food took 45 minutes for kids mac and cheese, a bit with fries, a sandwich, and a salad. Service: Dine in Meal type: Lunch Price per person: $10–20 Food: 2 Service: 3 Atmosphere: 2

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Nice quaint family owned. Food was great. They special such as Trivia Night on Thursdays. Atmosphere is great. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $10–20 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5 Recommended dishes: Patty Melt, Hot Beef, Steak Sandwich, French Dip, Sandwich, Burger, Grilled Chicken, Graziano Grinder with Fireside Fries, Cheeseburger, Onion Rings

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The service was amazing. I had the spinach artichoke dip and a french dip and swiss. The dip was really good but very oily. The French dip had more of a low grade skirt steak strips than roast beef and was terrible, absolutely no flavor. Food: 2 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 3

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Trevor was amazing, first time I came in and will definitely come back. The way he served us made me feel like he’d be a great bartending cause he was personable, informative, and helpful. Will stop back again Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

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