Frosty Gator — Restaurant in Idaho Falls

We ate here over the past weekend and absolutely loved it. The Frosty Gator has some of the best appetizers around. We ordered only appetizers and were very impressed and very much full. We ordered the Idaho Nachos, the Gator Super Jumbo Wings, and the Beer Battered Mushrooms. The Idahos Nachos is a platter with sidewinder fries with a lot of cheese, beans, olives, tomato, jalapeños, the whole deal. It’s a good addition to any order. The portion size is large. The Gator Super Jumbo Wings were amazing. The wings weren’t exactly “jumbo” sized in my opinion, but you get a dozen with a full order. So you’ll have “plenty on your plate.” The wings come with blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing with celery and carrots, while on a bed of lettuce. I don’t even like blue cheese dressing, but I enjoyed this. I was even dipping my beer-battered mushrooms in the dressing. We got the medium flavor on our wings. This sauce is a unique flavor, almost too much of a vinegar flavored. But we just couldn’t help, but keep dipping wing after wing in the blue cheese. The combination was absolutely amazing. Our waitress said that she enjoys getting the hot and Bourbon BBQ glaze flavors for her wings, so we are looking forward to coming back and trying that combination. You must try an order of wings here. The beer-battered mushrooms are hands down the best mushrooms in IF. I would reckon they were the best I’ve ever had. The the breading is delicious and the seasonings are so good. If you aren’t too keen of seasoning, then this may be a dish you skip because these mushrooms are well seasoned. The mushrooms come with a cup of ranch, another amazing combination. There is a lot of breading on the mushrooms, but that just means there is more to eat. The service is amazing here, one of the best in all of town. You’d be hard pressed to find better service, and we went during dinner hours on a Friday. The deep fried alligator appetizer wasn’t available due to supply shortages. But hopefully back on the menu in a month or two. Parking is on the east side of the restaurant. We are already planning on coming back and thinking about the dishes we will try then. I highly recommend the ...

Not much has changed about the Frosty Gator since we would frequent 20 years ago.

We were friends with the owner of Lost Arts (previous business), but I always thought that place was ahead of its time, especially in Eastern Idaho.

Ultimately our server was excellent and was on point despite everyone else in the place ignoring us for a solid 25 minutes, even though they only had a dozen people eating/drinking when we showed up early on a Friday evening.

Food was solid, salmon tacos (tasty) and finger steaks (pretty overdone); both our beers tasted like maybe the taplines were dirty or previously held something else that tainted the line.

The whole place seemed like there was a greasy sticky film over every surface you touched.

The most entertaining part was seeing some young women go outside, walk to a nearby car, and all shotgun Truly cans... Props. Those Truly's probably saved them $4 on a vodka tonic later that night. Gotta get the job done.

Despite my negatives, the Frosty Gator is probably one of the best social food and alcoholic drink places in the area. Just wish they treated all the guests better and not only...

The good.... This is a casual, seat-yourself, brew pub, sports bar and grill. The food was decent. They have a good selection of burgers and appetizers as well as salads and a few entrees. The bad... The service was very slow. We arrived at 6, there were 3 of us we ordered 2 apps, and 2 salads, one beer. It took 20 minutes for our server to take our order. As we waited for the order to be served, the restaurant got busier, but there weren't many there when we arrived. We watched as others who came after us got their orders, and finally after an HOUR, we got part of our order. Our server forgot a salad, apologizing, promised they were "building" it. He didn't bring it, until I asked for a take out box for my SIDE salad because we were done eating and ready to leave. He did apologize for the wait, but really there's no reason to wait for an hour for appetizers and salads, and then never even get a side salad till it's time to leave. I guess if you want to hang out and have craft beers, in a not- so-great-atmosphere then give it a shot, just don't expect...