Need help identifying an old restaurant

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 5:36 pm

I'm trying to find out information about an old restaurant in Council Bluffs. This restaurant was located around the area where West Kanesville and West Broadway split. It was located across the Broadway side, because I could always see it when my parents drove down W. Kanesville to go to my Grandfather's house. I never ate at this restaurant, and in fact it may have already closed by early to mid 1990's when I started noticing it.

This restaurant had a very distinctive building shape that included a cylindrical feature that looked like a combination of a barn or agricultural silo that protruded above the rest of the structure. I think the entire building had a somewhat circular design but the faux-silo was very obvious.

Just curious if anyone knows the name of this old place and if the building is still there.

Thanks!

icejammer · Post by **icejammer** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 5:41 pm

I know which restaurant you're talking about, it was Barn'rds. Used to be a chain, but most of them have closed. Not sure how many remain.

A tanning salon is at that location now, but the building is long-gone.

Joe_Sovereign · Post by **Joe_Sovereign** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:17 pm

Barn'rds was an Arby's like Roast Beef place. Opened in the mid to late 1980's in that location.

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 6:49 am

Thanks guys. Does anyone happen to know more specifically where this building was, just for curiosity sake?

EastCB · Post by **EastCB** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 2:18 pm

623 West Broadway.

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 8:56 pm

Thanks. It appears that the building was torn down in 2003 or 2004.

garyomaha · Post by **garyomaha** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:09 am

IIRC, Barn'rds was started by a former Arby's franchisee, who got frustrated when Arby's changed the type of roast beef they sold. It was a Council Bluffs-based chain of a few. i believe it morphed into what is today Lansky's. The building asked about above - I think - was a bus station in an earlier life (or maybe it was just on that property).

Zodeseeker · Post by **Zodeseeker** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:55 pm

There is one in Wichita KS.

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