Welcome to Bob's Your Uncle Pizza Cafe -- Westside!  We believe in "Great Food, Served by Friends" and try to live up to that, every meal, every customer. This is the original Bob's Your Uncle, which opened in 200l.  We opened our 2nd location in 2005, at 2208 N. Dodge on the eastside of Iowa City.  The menus are identical except for the pizza.  Here we have an open-flame brick oven identical to those used in famous restaurants like Wolfgang Pucks.  Our homemade, hand-tossed pizza is unique to this area. 

On the Eastside we make homemade gourmet pizza in 3 styles, the same way we did at The Airliner where 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 Cafes, with 25 years of experience as head chef at some of Iowa City’s best restaurants.  We have worked together for more than 15 years now.  Lynn Kadner is the Head Chef here.  Monica Meyer is the General Manager of both restaurants, and I think we have a tremendous staff here, led by Monica and Managers Lauren Johnson, Ciara Murillo, MacKenzie Sedlacek, Nicole Gatens and Chris Sorrell.  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 25 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, 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.  When you come here for lunch or dinner, you're turning your happiness over to us and that's serious.  We're glad so many of you are happy to have learned what Bob's Your Uncle really means.