Food & Drink

Gluten-free products don’t have to be dense and heavy or lack flavor.

The Mexican restaurant opens the second location six years after it found success on Gateway Place SW.

As the first-place winner, Nasraddin will receive a $20,000 credit toward architectural design services, build-out support and business education for a new build-out. He also will get first choice for one of five properties available for build-out downtown.

The location in the strip mall was home to Rocky O’Brien’s Public House, which closed June 26.

The downtown restaurant anchor is on the market for the second time since it first closed in November 2020.

The new menu served at the Nagle Family Clubhouse focuses more on smoked meats, traditional barbecue sides, certified Angus beef burgers and a wide selection of craft beer.

This month, breweries across Iowa are taking advantage of new changes that modernize Iowa’s alcohol laws for the first time in decades.

The menu at Tower Cafe offers wraps, sandwiches, burgers, tacos, salads and coffee from Dash Roasters.

The annual event at Indian Creek Nature Center gives attendees the chance to sample a wide variety of local craft beer at stations alongside heavy appetizers.

Chophouse Reserve, opening in the ground level space adjacent to Chophouse Downtown, plans to open by the end of October in the corner of the Hach Building, in the 400 block of First Street SE.

The new McDonald’s south of Von Maur opened Sept. 7 in Cedar Rapids after several years of planning.

Five women working in the Corridor were named to the Iowa Restaurant Association’s statewide 40 Women to Watch in Hospitality list of honorees for 2022.