Prairie Bay Grill & Catering

Now combined with an Italian property. Mixture of menus. Baia Della Went for lunch Mushroom tortellini $12 but added chicken $4Came in soup bowl. 3 nice size chicken prices that were cooked well and well seasoned crust. My wife had lunch special steak sandwich with Gorgonzola cheese. $12 1/2 sandwich with soup - tomato Basel. Soup was very good she liked the sandwich but the juices got the lower part of the bread so soft you could not eat as a sandwich. $12Server was Dave S He was very nice and helpful. The food came after a bit of a wait but the food was hot so I expect the kitchen. The sad news is that the mini donuts are no more. They were fun.

Our first time back since Prairie Bay opened back up, and we were not disappointed! Great service and those Szechuan green beans were so good we tried to stop eating them a few times to save room for the main course, but then they were gone!

What a surprise! The service was amazing and the food delicious. We'll be back again soon.

In town for a quick overnight stay and usually end up here for a good dinner. Their drink menu is creative and unique so I started with a "Just Juice All Organic Beet-tini ". It was refreshing and delish. The second course of chicken cranberry salad was a lot of food for a half salad and unfortunately came with a large chunk of chicken fat that hadn't been trimmed off. I had the brisket for the main course and it was a good meal. The horseradish sauce could have been horsier. Overall a good meal-took off the fifth star for the chicken fat. Always very friendly staff, tonight a bit slow-even though it wasn't real busy. It's slim pickens in this area for a good meal and I wouldn't hesitate sending you here!

Ambitious menu. We arrived at 3, which is when most servers are flagging after the lunch rush so that would explain the long minutes til we got water. My companions' salads looked heavy, over-chopped and rather limp. The Reuben was fantastic though the sauce that came with it could not possibly have been Thousand Island. My charcuterie "app" was a groaning board of cured meats, cheese and fruit nestled into a giant, warm, and puffy pretzel. I wanted to like it but no. First, the cheeses were just two kinds of bland white-something--and the bleu cheese totally missing. The fruit was, like, the dregs. One grape cut in half. A few skinny slices of a tiny Red Delicious (should be a tart variety instead!). Five blueberries. Two very strange dipping sauces, one the very same, aforementioned, totally tasteless "Thousand Island." They need to re-think this one. And $20. What?!Get the Reuben instead, skip the salads.

This was some really good food and an even better price. They have a happy hour from 4 to 6 PM that is a buy one get one free pizza. It is a ridiculous deal due to the high quality of toppings and pizza you are receiving. What a Deal!

While perusing around the home town of Brainerd, worth while cuisine is far fetched. We had a coupon to do the bruschetta bar, so we gave PBG a try.The bruschetta bar was soooo awesome! Baguettes with pesto, tomato basil sauce, sun dried tomatoes, mozzarella, sliced tomatoes, red peppers, caramelized onion, portobello shrooms, parm cheese, and a huge roasted garlic clove. Literally could have split this with all 5 of us for a nice snack with our brews. I would recommend going here with a group and having this with the donut bar, which we didn't have room for. My family has had it and spoke highly of it. Service and ambience was average, and prices were a bit high for everything we had on the menu. Bruschetta platter was $17 was probably appropriately priced. The coconut pepper stuffed shrimp were not worth 12 bucks. Just 4 of them and they were literally bite size. The beet salad wasn't worth while either, it was supposed to feature quinoa but the quinoa was a big glue ball of carbs. Strange.I think the pizza menu was impressive featuring pizzas such as chicken Brie Apple and shrimp ceviche among like 10 other unique pizzas. My mom wanted a plain cheese pizza which was not bad, but I wish we could have tried one of their specialties! Overall for Brainerd, you can do far far worse. I wish Ivens on the bay was still around, that would put this place to shame. But unfortunate they were sold to Northern Cowboy. :(We will be back for the mini donut bar and bruschetta for certain!!

Super yummy eats! I was mostly impressed by the variety of the menu. So much to choose from and according to our party who ordered a variety of everything... it was all good! This is a really cool, trendy, new spot in Baxter and I'm so glad it's there! Can't wait to go back!

Not the same Prairie Bay we came to know and love. Stopped in with the family to have a drink and bite in the bar. We had to wait 20 minutes to be seated in the bar even though there were only two other tables in there. While waiting, a gentleman came in then promptly left when told it would be a 20 minute wait for a drink. Upholstered bench in waiting area was dirty and had a large wet spot (pointed out to us by another guest that was waiting--thank you!). There was no bartender working...the waitress had to make our drinks. None of the wait staff looked happy. Ordered pizza's which were much smaller than the pizza's we used to get there. The whole concept seemed weird...Italian food on one side of the menu, and Prairie Bay food on the other, but again-not the selection or quality of food that Prairie Bay used to be known for.

This might be the best made from scratch kitchen-in Iowa. Was stunned how good this place is. Highly recommend!