Food & Drink

More and more consumers are turning to plant-based options.

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.

Marion restaurant partners with Marion schools to connect public with children in need

Amateur home bakers and non-professional baking addicts are wanted to participate in a holiday cake contest held Dec. 15 to 17 at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids by Sandrine Wallace of French Pastry by Sandrine.

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.