Food & Drink

The recipe for strawberry sherbet is straightforward and easy to follow, producing a creamy and slightly tangy scoop that isn’t too rich. For the second batch, a no-churn strawberry-fig ice cream.

Despite brisk business now, new challenges — from staffing shortages to delta variant — threaten to hold restaurants back from full pandemic recovery.

With fruit-flavored pickles, hot sandwiches, hoagies and salads, the new restaurant in the Food Court offers healthy food that still has soul.

This week’s Chew on This has your cravings for tacos, subs, warm cookies and new bar and grill food in mind.

Brazilian “Bolo de Bruxa,” translates to “witch’s cake,” a deliciously sweet, cinnamon apple cake that is filled with raisins and nuts that is made in a Bundt cake pan.

Fans of Villa’s Patio in Marion will find the same south-of-the-border specialties and favorite margaritas and tequilas in its second location in Cedar Rapids. But with indoor seating for up to 200 and a bigger patio outdoors, you’ll have more room to spread out.

After nearly 13 years, the restaurant’s last day open will be Saturday.

Boxty are made from potatoes, milk and flour. Half the potatoes are grated like hash browns, and the other half are mashed to make up part of the binder that holds the potato pancake all together.

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A new Coralville restaurant will bring appetizers, brick oven pizza, tropical cocktails and mini golf under one roof.

A new restaurant in downtown Solon is bringing a modern take to a quintessential American classic: the soda fountain.

Whether it’s beer and Czech food, cookies, Pancheros burritos or a Hawaiian dinner you’re craving, this week’s Chew on This has you covered.