Elijah Decious

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.

Here are the desserts bakers and chefs around the Corridor have made a tradition in their families — and how they find comfort in making food at home for pleasure after working long days in the kitchen.

Before its first location has even opened, Abelardo’s Mexican Fresh is planning another location at a former Dairy Queen.

A cookie franchise opening its first Iowa location will soon offer stuffed cookies in Cedar Rapids.

Crab Attack Seafood Kitchen & Bar is using its sea legs to move from Cedar Rapids to Uptown Marion.

Ricky Bartlett of Iowa City and the band Vibe will be honored with a Danny Award at the fourth annual Danny Awards held Nov. 18 in New York. The awards sponsored by Daniel’s Music Foundation recognizes musicians with disabilities with the purpose of challenging society to think differently about disability.

The Mexican restaurant, which opened in September 2022 with a bigger and more bar-forward concept than its first location, announced its closure on social media Nov. 10.