Area Dining
Lowden
Sweet P’s: Coffee Sweets and Homemade Eats! Local café serving breakfast and lunch Wednesday-Friday.
Good Times Tap: Good Times is a local bar serving Dinner 6 days a week.
Rail Yard Restaurant and Bar: Lowden’s finest dinning spot! Full-service restaurant and bar with outdoor patio with bar, volleyball, and bags.
Wheatland
Desperado’s Bar and Grill: Desperado’s Bar and Grill is open daily from 9am-10pm and 9-2 am on weekends.
Wapsi Oaks Country Club: Serving dinner on Friday and Saturday from 5pm-9pm (Calamus)
Dewitt
Sunrise Café: Sunrise Café is a casual family restaurant that is open from 7 am - 2 pm, and 4:30-8 pm daily.
Mezcal Mexican Bar And Grill - Family friendly Mexican food with great margaritas 11:00am -10:pm daily
Murphy's Pub Dewitt - Murphy's has one of the best craft beer selections in the QCA w/ 40 draft beers & ciders! We also have a large food menu that provides a delicious, affordable dinner! 3pm - 10pm
Mt Vernon
Cafe Palisades: Palisades Cafe specializes in creative food with a local flair. We source many of our ingredients locally for the freshest taste. Open Tuesday-Saturday 11-2, 5-9 and Sunday Brunch 10-1.
Lincoln Wine Bar: Lincoln Wine Bar is open daily from 5-9 pm and open from 3-10 pm Saturdays. Closed Sunday.
Big’s BBQ Brew Pub: At Big's, we source local ingredients when possible. Our meats are mostly locally raised and our smoked sausage is handmade in-house. We've partnered up with a local bakery for bread and other baked goods as our kitchen uses no fryers, microwaves, nor ovens! Big's Iowa-style barbecue uses the perfect mixture of the various regional specialties and techniques and combines it into an amazingly delicious style all its own.
Skillet Cafe: Specialties include made-to-order omelets, pastas, potatoes and salads, as well as a variety of sandwiches and wraps. A full breakfast menu is served all day. You could best describe us as something between a diner and a bistro or cafe. You order at the counter and can see your food being prepared in our open kitchen.
Clarence
Mill Creek Cafe: Three special homecooked selections prepared every day from scratch. Mill Creek Café is open 11-2 Tuesday-Friday.
Victory Lane: Victory Lane Bar and Grill is open from 11 to closing daily. Food service from 11am-9pm.
Stanwood
Ditto’s Family Restaurant: Dittos Family Restaurant is family owned since 1986. They have fantastic breakfast and a variety of daily specials. Don’t forget the pie!. Open daily from 6am-3pm.
Tipton
Buchanan House Winery & Vineyard: Buchanan House Winery is a beautiful stop not too far from the hotel. A 19th century mansion tuned modern winery is just south west of Lowden in Tipton Iowa. The tasting room is open to the public daily and reservations are not required. Come out and taste some fabulous local wine!
Tipton Family Restaurant: Locally owned restaurant in downtown Tipton, serving breakfast (any time of the day), lunch and dinner. Open seven days a week.
Tiffiny's Tipton Bakery: The Tipton Bakery was started by the Hartog family in 1928. The amazing Tipton Bakery Crescent (TM) was introduced and has been a signature item for the last 89 years! People travel from all over for their delicious crescent. We have also shipped them as far as Australia, Afghanistan, and South Korea.