Carlos O'Kelly's - Iowa City
$ • Mexican, Tex-Mex
Hours:
1406 S Gilbert St, Iowa City
(319) 354-5800
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Recent Reviews
Carlos O'Kelly's has the best Chipotle Chicken Burito with the creamy Diablo sauce. My daughter has a steak quesadilla that she said was really good, fully loaded with steak. The service, however, was terrible! We waited forever to be seated and ended up seating ourselves. The waitress took forever to get drinks and take our order. There were other people who came in and left because the service was so bad. The worst part was they weren't even that busy, only four tables with...read full review
The person by the door looked like he fell out of bed/unkempt and told me several times to wait a sec, this was at about 1:30ish. A few minutes later I was seated and had a very attentive waitress take my order and after a few minutes a second waitress check on me. During the hour I was there, none of the tables around me where cleaned up and the guy upfront mostly hung out in the back of the restaurant. The food was made better than the last two visits there which was a pleasant...read full review
Ratings
Hours
Monday | 11AM - 10PM |
Tuesday | 11AM - 10PM |
Wednesday | 11AM - 10PM |
Thursday | 11AM - 10PM |
Friday | 11AM - 10PM |
Saturday | 11AM - 10PM |
Sunday | 11AM - 9PM |
Good food, friendly atmosphere and servers. We went for chips, dips (guac and queso), and drinks (happy hour is 2 to 5 pm). Their margaritas are very good, coming in both frozen and on the rocks. They come in 4 flavors, which is a scale back from recent years (they used to have several flavors). Was a great place to catch up with friends over drinks!