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John and Nicks
  • Enjoy our famous salad bar, voted # 1 in Des Moines, stocked daily with over 60 fresh and homemade items.
  • We proudly serve award winning hand cut USDA Choice and higher steaks, aged 21 days, for maximum taste and tenderness. John & Nicks is one of only a few restaurants to exclusively hand cut steaks, on-site daily.
  • We serve tantalizing appetizers to start off any great meal, like Sesame Crusted Yellow Fin Ahi Tuna.
  • Try some amazing Iowa favorites like Steak De Burgo.
  • Surf & Turf - John & Nicks style. Award-winning Prime Rib and Lobster Tail.
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John's father, Ron Jaeger, opened a restaurant on the Northeast side of Des Moines in 1978. For over thirty years, it featured prime rib and a salad bar offering 30 items. John was raised in the family business, working under his father's direction. After Ron's passing, John successfully managed the family restaurant for over six years, completing a major renovation and creating a dramatic increase in business.

In 2009, John opened John and Nicks Steak and Prime Rib, in Clive. Enjoy John and Nicks famous salad bar, bigger and better with over 60 fresh homemade items, and hand cut black angus, USDA choice steaks, aged 21 days for maximum taste and tenderness. Enjoy an amazing selection of incredible seafood, chops, pasta and John's house specialty, prime rib, USDA choice rib-eye slow roasted and carved to order, plus many other delicious menu items.


We hope you have a wonderful dining experience and return often. Thank you for your business!

John Jaeger
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John and Nicks Steak and Prime Rib, Serving an amazing selection of incredible food since 2009.

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