Legends American Grill
| Address » | 216 Court Ave, Des Moines IA (Map) |
| Phone » | n/a |
| Website » | n/a |
| Downtown » | No |
| Type » | Bar | Restaurant |
| Tags » | American | Lounge |
| Avg User Rating » |
  (based on 3 reviews) |
| Details » | Located in Court Center, scheduled to open Spring 2007. |
| User Reviews | |
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User Reviews (3 reviews)
Apr 15, 2008 
cambohooker
This is a great addition to the court avenue scene. I frequent this place often to catch baseball and football games. The food is really good compared to most sports bars and they have a great selection of beers. I have been to Legends downtown probably thirty or more times and I have never had anything to complain about both food and service. They have pretty good wings and they have a spicy spinach dip that pairs pretty good with a cold one. If you're a sports bar type of person, you need to check Legends out.
Mar 17, 2008 FattyHungry
Waiting for our friends to arrive, we bellied up to the bar for a drink. The bartender exhibited what is known as "zombiance" which describes a place with all the trappings of a nice establishment but employs staff reminscient of the living dead. We quickly realized the "What do you want-you're bothering me" stare was not to be followed by any courteous greeting or offering of any kind. Thankfully our Stella Artois and Fat Tire soothed any hard feelings.
We eventually move to a table and order wings as it's a sports bar kind of place and when in Rome... Our wings arrive in a timely fashion, although appetizer plates, I believe, are still on the way. We feared our waitress had died in the kitchen somewhere, as our wing bones were piling up and we dreaded having to return to the bar to get our own drinks... which we did. The bartender this time was slightly less icy as even though we received less than cordial service the time before, we still left a decent tip.
Returning to the table we found the pile of wing bones still laying directly on the tabletop as the waitress brought our round of burgers and chicken sandwiches (usual sports bar fare). The sandwich auction ended with everyone claiming their correct food (our waitress hadn't a clue) ... except one. We had to literally run down our waitress to tell her one person in our party didn't receive their order. We were told the plate was so hot it was dropped in the kitchen and they would bring it out a.s.a.p. Eh, mistakes happen- whaddya gonna do? Thankfully, in case you were starving, you could have picked over the chicken wing bones which still remained laying on the table even after our food had been delivered. Again, waitress disappeared. We make yet another trip to the bar to get our own beer & soda refills. The 'dropped' burger replacement eventually arrives and after one bite our co-diner asks if we've ever tasted ground beef that has been thawed/cooked in a microwave and how it affects the taste? We all had small tastes of the ground beef patty and yes, something definitely wrong. Our theory was in an effort to speed up the order they at some point nuked it and boy was it bad! Thankfully the wing bones were still sitting in middle of our table.
Our waitress drops off our checks, with no apology or discount for my poor friend who, never one to complain, essentially paid $9 for seasoned fries and had to wait 20+ minutes for them... OUCH!
Normally I'd have said skip the food entirely, sit at the bar and drink while watching your favorite sporting event, but considering the sevice at the bar was also way below par, I'll say skip Legend's downtown entirely. Legendarily bad!
Jun 14, 2007 cutman260
I like the setting and the people were wonderful, the food was fresh, and I got quite a lot of food for my money. Our waiter brought me the wrong drink, but quickly made up for it, by bringing me the correct one, and still let me keep the wrong one without charging me. This place is much better than the Legends in Pleasent Hill.