Clyde's Fine Diner

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A fine diner in Des Moines, IA. Upscale American cuisine, reimagined diner classics, craft cocktails

06/28/2026

Goodbye. Thank you.

06/27/2026

For our final service tonight we are reservation only. We are all booked up and look forward to serving you one more time. Thank you for everything.

06/18/2026

Lunch Services will be by reservation only from 6/18-6/27

Thank you all for the overwhelming support this week. It’s incredible to see our books flooded with reservations overnight. In order to be able to give the best possible service we have decided to operate Lunch service by reservations only as we do not have the capacity to accept walk ins. Thanks for your understanding and we hope to serve you soon!

06/17/2026

Our walk in cooler has been repaired (new fan motor for those of you keeping score) and we will be open tonight. Apologies again to our guests we didn’t get to see last night. As well as a thank you to commercial service industries for having us back up so quickly. And thanks to our friends who offered to keep our product safe and cold! Won’t be a dull moment these next few days.

A note on reservations: thank you for all reaching out we are feeling the love. We are in fact completely booked for the rest of our opening including lunch services. Thank you.

06/16/2026

This is the last thing you want to see when you come in from a much needed rest and a completely banger of a weekend. Our walk-in cooler isn’t recovering from our prep session yesterday. We have a repair technician on the way . Our books are full tonight but it doesn’t look like we can open our doors until this issue is resolved. We will update as soon as we can confirm. Refrigeration is everything in a commercial kitchen.

06/12/2026

Thank you to everyone that has filled up our books with reservations over night! Can’t wait to serve you all soon. Due to capacity over the next few weeks, we have decided to change our opening hours to 5pm for dinner service and remove our happy hour program so we can focus on providing you all with the best food and service.

06/11/2026

News from Chris the owner:
Man what a run! I'm so proud of this restaurant. I learned so much along the way; you all love burgers, you hate credit card fees, you love old fashioneds, despite my resistance you want ranch on everything, man you LOVE brussel sprouts. I learned how to treat and care for a staff. I learned how to make hard decisions. Despite the odds, I learned how to run a business and navigate through a pandemic. We have had the most fun serving you the food that we wanted to eat ourselves. I have been able to find some of the most talented, caring, kind, people to represent this restaurant and work by my side. I have made the very difficult decision not to renew the lease for Clyde's at the end of June. This next couple of weeks will be a bit bittersweet. We would love to see you and thank you for your support all these years. We couldn't have had the run we had without you supporting our sometimes quirky menu ideas and delicious cocktails. Come give your server or bartender a high five and dig into a pile of fries, some oysters, or one of Chef Diego's incredible entrees. I'll be here too and I'm so thankful for all of you, staff and guests.

05/27/2026

We’ve got some beautiful new desserts and a killer dry aged trout special that we’d love to drop off at your table tonight. Stop in this evening to try em out and grab a half priced bottle of w**e while you’re at it!

-Sourdough Waffle-
Caramelized white chocolate mousse, strawberries, goat cheese streusel

-Pavlova-
Chamomile meringue, rhubarb granita, pink peppercorn, honey sesame brittle

-Grilled Dry Aged Trout-
Shellfish consommé, potato, ginger scallion relish, smoked lardo, pickled shimeji mushrooms, cilantro

05/15/2026

We took all the work out of the standard half chicken dinner and removed the bones for you. All that’s left is for you to enjoy.

~Half Chicken~
boneless bell and evans chicken, herbs de provence jus, farm greens, schmaltz vinaigrette, sourdough croutons

05/08/2026

This weekends pasta special is a Parisian Gnocchi built for spring. Come get it before it’s gone tonight from 5-9.

~Parisian Gnocchi~
Bridgewater farms carrots, rinehart farm asparagus, toasted Koji butter, smoked cured egg yolk, roasted hazelnuts, spring radish, pickled shimeji mushrooms

Address

111 East Grand Avenue, Suite 111
Des Moines, IA
50309

Telephone

+15152433686

Website

http://clydesfinediner.com/

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