Great food, great service and given the special Sunday menus, great price super. Lived the blue cheeses on the chop wedge. So good

Exceptional experience from the moment we walked in until we left. Staff was very pleasant. Server was top notch! Our food was very high quality and prepared perfectly.

We held a private event here and the food and service was tremendous. I had the 16ounce ribeye with bone marrow butter and it just melted in my mouth - so good!

Dined at 801 this week with another couple. I have to say we all left disappointed particularly with parts of our dinners. The GOOD I ordered the 8oz Filet and it was perfect. Cool center, great flavor and nice exterior crust. My wife decided on the lobster tail($87). The presentation was underwhelming. Giant tail on a plate with nothing to off load the shell. Unfortunately the lobster was dramatically overcooked. It was rubbery and difficult to cut. You expect soft sweet meat that melts in your mouth. Everyone tried it and ALL agreed it was not good. Not what you expect. It is called Chophouse not Seafood house. For dessert, the table split the crème brûlée and the peach and blueberry crumble. The brûlée was really tasty. Tough to mess that up. The Peach crumble was a miss. The peaches wee not ripe. They came out hard. You would expect the peaches and blueberries to begin to breakdown during cooking and marry with the sauce. Order the steaks and HARD PASS on seafood. Skip dessert, we don't really want to waste calories on poor execution. That dessert and lobster should have NEVER left the kitchen.

Excellent traditional steakhouse with an extensive menu and wine list. I highly recommend the wet aged rib eye and the oven baked cream spinach. Excellent professional service. Reasonable pricing for what it is. Note that the nearest entry is on High Street, not Grand.

We travel to Des Moines once a year to visit the wonderful staff at Meredith. And every year we eat here. It's a Des Moines institution. It's a very expensive steak house and the steak is good. The sides are great and the wine list impressive. But like most steak houses, everything is a la cart and it adds up quickly! The staff are true professionals and they have been there for years, which in the restaurant industry now is truly a testament to how they treat them! We started with the calamari, the meatballs and tuna tartare. All good, but the tuna was the standout. I had the tomato and onion salad and it was fresh and beautiful presentation. The best part is the Maytag blue cheese. I mean everyone should have Maytag cheese in Iowa!! I didn't have a steak but had the lamb chops. It was cooked perfectly so was everyone's steaks (the rest of the table had a petit filet). Our sides were the CREAMED CORN ( do not walk out of 801 without tasting it -like Maytag when in Iowa, have the corn), scallops potatoes and Brussels sprouts. They were all delicious . The Brussels were a tad over done so a bit mushy. When you walk in, you feel like you walked into a rat pack song- beautiful wood, white table clothes, dim lighting and a few of the Soprano's in the corner (kidding).

Another fabulous visit to the top steakhouse in town. Tonight was daddy daughter date night for another 4.0 semester. The evening started with oysters and escargot. Both were awesome. Steaks were as expected and the lions head mushrooms were awesome. No trip here would be complete with out a soufflé. Every trip here is memorable and you can't put a price on a fabulous celebratory meal with your daughter.

I can not RAVE about this place enough! For the quality of your meal and the service you get, it's totally worth the price tag. My husband and I came here the night we eloped to celebrate getting married. This place holds a special place in our heart and our stomachs. The atmosphere is lightly lit, spaced out enough that your conversation won't overlap with those next to you, and it's a clean environment. Our water glasses never reached the bottom of the cup, and our food came out fresh and hot. I will say, the sides are family style, so one side to split would be more than enough. We ended up getting two sides with our two meals, and we had to take it home! I highly highly HIGHLY recommend getting the steak with the lobster Oscar. I dream of this meal to this day. The cheesecake didn't last long between the two of us. I highly recommend getting a serving of that as well.

We returned and tried out the Sunday Supper. On Sunday evenings you can order off the regular menu, or off the supper selection. It offers a choice of salad, a few different entrees, and the 'package' includes the salad, dessert, and sides served with your entrees. We brought in our own bottle of wine; their corkage fee is $25. They have a huge selection of wine, so bringing your own is certainly not necessary, but we had one we really like with steak that they don't carry, and the $25 is reasonable in this tier of establishment. Our food was all prepared wonderfully, matching the experience we've had here in the past. We also got a 'bonus' dessert since it was our anniversary. We got the chocolate cake (aka Death by Chocolate) and it was decedant and delicious. Our server Paul, and the whole team were fantastic!

This restaurant has been on my top list for a few months. I had decided to host a graduation dinner here for all our friends. Needless to say it was a HIT. I feel horrible I did not get out servers name but he was phenomenal and attentive. We had the Sunday dinner and it comes with two options of salad and three options from the main course which include filet mignon, prime rib and salmon, they offer an option of two desserts and you can pick one. It was a totally of 7 of us. The Sunday dinner special is $47 per person. Everything was flavorful and delicious. We will definitely be back. Once again I went to thank 801 Chophouse for helping us out with dinner reservations and being so helpful with allowing us to go in earlier to set up our table. Thank you PS they are very busy so please make reservations before hand!