Bowl Izakaya — Restaurant in Greeley

My wife had been dying to try this place. We've tried to get in once before but was too busy. I called a week ahead to book a table for 2 for Valentines dinner, our 11th anniversary. No problem, 7pm reservation, asked to arive 20 minutes early, did so. The front was packed, basically chaos. We felt fortunate to be seated as I was able to interrupt the server who frantically came up to call names after the first call did not respond. We were seated with no drink or sushi menu, I went and found a drink menu. About 20 minutes later someone came to take our order. We ordered water, 2 cocktails, 4 appetizers, and 2 bowls of ramen. After a while, cocktails showed up and then appetizers trickled out at a convenient pace. Those were all very good. Then my wife's ramen arrived, she loved it! But my ramen, never came... And as we were seated in the corner and they were very busy, couldn't get anyone's attention. By the time someone came around to fill my empty water my wife was halfway done, i asked about the ramen and attempted to order more drinks. They said they would check and then nobody returned until my wife was full, at which point i just asked for a small container for her leftovers and the check. They did bring her 2nd cocktail with the check. I left hungry and we went by burger king, at least my wife got her ramen and enjoyed it. I understand they're a busy place, but that should've been expected on their end. Front doors open all the time so jacket on inside, entryway packed constantly, loud inside. Maybe staff could've been redirected for better service if the doordash was turned off? They just did not have a handle on anything going on. Or maybe I just made a poor choice of expectations for a nice valentine's dinner, i dont know, but this was my experience and it wasn't good on service...

Decor is standout fantastic, and the dining experience is by far the best of Greeley. Food and service were both great. Our first time dining, they were short staffed a cook, bartender, and two servers, but our service was neither rushed nor delayed. A+++ My perfect tonkotsu ramen is santouka in mitsuwa markets... not even in this state, but Bowl Izakaya is still in the top 5 ever. Greeley has never seen ramen like this. Better than Kujira in FoCo. I got regular tonkotsu and my Mexican wife got the spicy version "hot"... it's legit spicy. I even gave her the rest of my broth after finishing my bowl to tame it down a touch. The pork slices were as good as it gets. We also got chicken karaage, gyoza, chicken tender yakitori futatsu, and a Unagi sushi from the sushi bar. Unagi cuts were top-notch, and sauce was correct, recommended. Karaage was delicious with a kewpie based sauce, recommended. Yakitori was surprisingly spicy, with a Japanese tajin dry rub thing going on, properly made over binchotan, recommended. I'm a dumpling slut, so I still recommended them, but they are not the stuck together from the starch handmade ones... but still prepared from frozen very well. Despite no bartender, two of the staff knew how to make drinks, well. My wife got a standard margarita and tried a Midori sour for the first time. Both were great. Even finished with a blackberry lemonade, also great. Many more items and service to try, I will...

We went on a Wednesday night, have not been there before. We love Sushi and looking forward to a new restaurant in Greeley. The introduction was weird, they had one to greet patrons, people were confused.They had a sign to write in your name to be seated..There was a fairly long line but half the customers were waiting for pickup. They did not know what to do. No one was there’s to help them! There was a party of ten before us,they left due to frustration . It took us 15 minutes to be seated, 20 minutes to put in our order. After 30 minutes we asked about our drinks. Then after two tables were seated next to us and received their drinks and meals we asked about our food. They finally brought our food and it was excellent. My wife asked me to not write a bad review, but even though they had only been open 3 weeks, they were probably the most disorganized restaurant I’ve been to in several years. I usually always give a place 2-3 times to get their stuff together but this is the worse opening I’ve ever been exposed too. My wife kept saying they were so unstaffed that it was not their fault but I saw so many walk out due to frustration, I think they need...