Best kept secret restaurants in Iowa
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Just the name Taco Tico makes me want to go.
They moved into a different building a couple years ago but the food hasn't changed. It's not your standard hammered out hubcap tenderloin!
Three Days in Owasa is my choice! Good bar food, cheap drinks, and they have bands outside on the weekends.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!? It's Taco Freaking Tico!
You need to road trip, friend. Put on some salsa music and go gorge yourself on hard shells. They taste like a little slice of Americanized Mexican heaven.
There is a sizeable amount of ex-Dodgers who, when returning for a visit, visit the Tico first thing. (I think Angie is on that list, BTW.)
I don't get back to Mason City very often, but I'll stop the next time I'm there.
Twisted tail does have really good food. The locals would really rather people stop coming there though. Might have been said but rusty duck in dexter is/was good. BarnBurner in Brayton. Eat at the place in hamlin quite a bit, never that impressed with their tenderloin. The pizza place in Adair that won best pizza isnt all that great imo either but I think it depends on how you like your pizza. Flour Mill in elk horn is pretty good. Also larsens in elkhorn another place he supposedly has the #1 tenderloin in Iowa.
problem with victoria station is if you go with only 2 people you get put at an awkward table inbetween large groups and they never seem to be open when you want it.
The Hitchin Post in Bevington rocks. They have the best breakfast in Iowa and a killer rib special on Saturday night.
Bluff Lake Catfish Farm in Maquoketa. Funnest part is trying to find this place, that's why its a secret! You've got to drive through Maquoketa Caves State Park and basically down some guy's driveway to get there...
All you can eat catfish Friday's, all you can eat haddock fillets Saturday and all you can eat butterfly shrimp & fried chicken on Sunday's. Amazing place...
All you can eat catfish Friday's, all you can eat haddock fillets Saturday and all you can eat butterfly shrimp & fried chicken on Sunday's. Amazing place...
I don't know if it's much of a secret, but Morg's in Waterloo is some of the best breakfast I've ever eaten. Just a tiny hole in the wall downtown in a nondescript building.
First time I went there, I started to wonder if my parents were planning on killing me. You literally drive into the middle of nowhere.
