Mechanicsville
Mechanicsville, IA · Food & Drink
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10 Unique Iowa Pizza Places Serving Wildly Creative Pies You Have To Try
Who decided pizza has to stick to the usual toppings? I’ve always been happy with a good pepperoni pie, but some of Iowa’s more adventurous pizzerias have me questioning why I’ve played it safe for so long. I’ll admit that putting macaroni and cheese on pizza sounded...
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Catfish Charlie’s Offers Great Food and Mississippi River Culture
The lure of the Mississippi River brings people of all kinds together to experience something undeniably larger than yourself. Its beauty and elegance holds secrets that many never take the opportunity to discover. If you find yourself feeling adventurous and looking to be immersed in the Mississippi River culture, look no further than the one and only, Catfish Charlie’s.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
La Leona Mexican restaurant expands south to Marion
MARION — A family-owned group of Mexican restaurants is opening the lion’s share of its new growth south of the border — of Wisconsin. La Leona, whose owners run restaurants in Illinois, Wisconsin and northeastern Iowa, are planting their first flag in the Corridor with a Marion location. The brand’s third spot, which opened Oct. 13 at 1011 Eagleview Drive, fills the vacancy left by the Golden Palace Chinese Buffet , which closed around early June. La Leona, the name of the owners’ home in Mexico that translates to “the lioness,” imports the flavors of their native Jalisco state, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. A growing footprint Two brothers, Francisco and Marcos Lugo, and Marcos’ brother-in-law, Roberto Zarate, join forces for the third La Leona location. The brand has opened three locations in just as many years. Starting in Winnebago, Illinois, it has quickly blossomed with a second opening in Dubuque in November 2025 before opening its first Corridor location in Marion. The trio has grown Mexican restaurant holdings of other names across the Upper Midwest, starting in Wisconsin in 2003. But in Iowa, they see a more promising business environment. They discovered the vacancy on the growing eastern