Elijah Decious

The Hahn Bakery has been in the family for more than 60 years. With Doris at the helm for the past 55 years, the family business baked family recipes — unchanged since their inception — in an old hearth oven.

Sykora Bakery, a legacy institution in the Czech Village neighborhood for a century, has closed again after a change in ownership.

A decade after renovations first started, a new vision for a historic carriage house has come to fruition as a wedding venue in the MedQuarter.

At Big Grove Brewery’s annual Richard Dinner, unfamiliar ingredients tap into familiar memories only the diner can discover.

Qerimi and his brother, Muho, opened the original Marion location in 2011. Both grew up in Naples, Italy.

Big Grove Brewery, one of Iowa’s largest breweries, is about to get bigger.

The Fork and Knife Feast, canceled for the past two years after the pandemic, will return in 2024 to once again serve as the kickoff to the annual event that has blossomed into a 10-day exploration showing off what restaurants in Cedar Rapids and Marion have to offer.

Iowa is one of several states whose cities continue to affirm policies inclusive of LGBTQ residents, despite setbacks for them from new state laws.

With specialties from the Puebla state of Mexico, two Iowa restaurateurs are trying their hand at Mexican food in Cedar Rapids.

The restaurant’s menu, available online now to tease your appetite, includes chlebicky open-face sandwiches, pea soup, fried cheese, beef goulash, rizek schnitzels, strapacky with sauerkraut and bacon, buchty sweet buns with marmalade, and babovka marbled Bundt cake.

Investors are working to renovate a former fire station in downtown Mount Vernon into The Old Fire Station, a fully fledged brewery, in 2025.

The new location will feature much of the same food available in New Bohemia, but also will offer some popular breakfast items from his farmers market menu weekdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Gia’s Italian Kitchen owner Kelley Cole teaches others to cook. But in the process, she’s bringing people together for a greater purpose.

There’s no shortage of holiday spirit keeping things merry and bright across Linn and Johnson counties.

Two new spaces in downtown Iowa City offer a place go grab a bite, enjoy a quiet drink or go dancing with a coherent theme that stands out from the crowd.