Vesta — Restaurant in Coralville

We recently enjoyed dinner with friends at Vesta. Our wives chose to have the Mahi mahi which was fantastic. My friend had the pork tenderloin sandwich and was quite impressed. I elected to have a pizza from their brick oven. We were served by Jake, not from State Farm, and he was very knowledgeable of all of the dishes he handled our questions with ease. I enjoyed the Meat-za pizza, it was enough food for two people and I ended up takes half the pizza home. The crust was a thin light crispy crust much like naan. The pizza was sauced lightly with fresh tomatoes, onions and other herbs and spices. The meats were fresh and flavorful. Highly recommend the pizza. We are going to visit again in the near future to try more of their dishes, I want the beef tenderloin. Our only negative experience was the crème brûlée. My wife and I often chose to eat at restaurants that have cb, we are kind of cb snobs. I took one bite of my cb and couldn’t eat any more of it. It was bland at best with very little vanilla flavor and tasted like they forgot the sugar in the recipe. The girls took a bite of theirs and they too turned theirs back. Jake came by, we told him what we thought, he went directly to the kitchen to try it himself. He came back and verified our complaint saying that he thought the chef forgot the sugar when making it. Jake to the ramekins away and removed them from our bill.

All in all a great experience less the crème brûlée mishap. We will definitely be back to try a new dish as well as...

I cannot say enough about our experience here. We were coming to town to visit my wife's family for the weekend and wanted to locate a place that would provide us with a private room. When I called I spoke with Jacob the manager, he confirmed they could accommodate our family and private room request. He also gave me some options for local hotels, telling me the Marriott was within walking distance which was awesome. when we got there the room was ready and we had a devoted server for our evening, Adam KILLED IT. Separated the kids and adults and was great at working with the children so the adults could converse. I have to say my wife and I travel and eat out often and this is the first restaurant i can remember where we LOVED every single app on the menu, we ordered them all and a few a second round. Signature drinks were great and 3 of us ordered the "special" Seabass, now I know what your thinking fish in the middle of the country?? but it was AMAZING!!! Rivaled anything we have gotten on either coast or abroad. Adam took several pictures and really made us feel at home. After dinner Jacob and the chef came out to thanks us which was a nice touch. Then the bills for 18 people came and my wife and i were SHOCKED, not bad since we did tons of app's and several adult beverages. We will absolutely be back and would recommend anyone to...

I don't usually post reviews but our experience last evening was horrible. We were seated pleasantly enough but everything went down hill from there. Our martinis arrived 15 minutes after ordering but without olives or any embellishments of any kind and no cocktail napkins. We had to call out to the waitress to ask to please bring olives. We should have left then. No further contact from anyone so again we had to stop an employee to ask if we could please order dinner. Finally 45 minutes later (we have now been in restrurant well over an hour) one entree was placed in front of me but there was nothing for my husband, where was his order? We told them to forget it we were leaving. They did give us a to-go box for my dinner and I was given a wooden nickel for a "free drink" next time. But really there won't be a next time. It was one mistake after another, almost laughable. I've eaten here before and always happy but last night was truly the worst dining experience I...