cocost is the bomb
i'm a college student and cocost is my favorite restaurant. it is located very near to campus. the meals are priced so that with tax, the total comes out to $5 even. this is very convenient and shows they care about their customers. also, their food is very good. the service is very fast.    [31 Aug 2005 13:18:04]

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Recommended Dishes: beef fried rice

     ­zach smith   hoeken at gmail dot com

cocost has a very laid back atmosphere with a pretty limited menu, but the quality of the food is excellent and it is cheap. they have the best lemon chicken-it's like nothing else. you must try it!    [04 Jul 2006 11:52:35]

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Recommended Dishes: lemon chicken

     ­Anonymous   

made me ill
I enjoyed the food at cocost the first few times I went, then I became very ill from it, the food is not fully cooked. Do not eat there.    [21 Feb 2007 23:28:36]

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Recommended Dishes: Nothing

     ­Jordan   

:)
I ate here all the time when I was living in Ames, I live in Des Moines now and drive up at least every other week. It is cheap, fast, good food. A normal plate is exactly $5 and an entree, appetizer, and soda is $8 even. Nothing to Complain about, they also serve traditional chinese dishes.    [24 Feb 2007 02:08:38]

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Recommended Dishes: Black Pepper Beef

     ­Margot Foster   

Best bet for a place to eat
Cocost is without a doubt the best lunch spot in town!    [27 Apr 2007 15:32:59]

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Recommended Dishes: Mongolian beef, black pepper beef, chicken chop, teriyaki chicken

     ­Anonymous   

Bad food and Worse Service
User Rating: Good
by Pantaloons
10/26/2007

I went there with my mom while we were apartment shopping. She got the Happy Family which wasn't too bad, especially since it cost only $5. But I got the beef and mushrooms, it came out looking weird, with white sauce (everywhere else I've ever gone had brown sauce on it). But I forgave that, because everybody's got their own recipe, right? So I tasted it and it was disgusting. They use canned mushrooms, so there would be a little bit of a weird taste, but the metal flavor was overpowering. It was like they boiled the tin can from the mushrooms, in with the sauce. It's inexcusable even for a $5 meal. So I took it back up, and the guy refused to give me a refund. His excuse? "Lot of people order today, nobody complain." So what I got from the broken English was, whether it was bad or not, because nobody else took the time to ask for their money back, I couldn't get my money back. On top of that, they've got soda "on tap" and yet it was flat. Who hooks their machine up to flat soda water?    [26 Oct 2007 18:01:35]

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Recommended Dishes: Happy Family seemed to be the lesser of two evils.

     ­Anonymous