Qerimi and his brother, Muho, opened the original Marion location in 2011. Both grew up in Naples, Italy.
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you want biscuits and gravy or sweet pancakes, check out this new diner in southwest Cedar Rapids.
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