"For pie lovers, a beautiful sight... Coffee Cup Cafe's coconut creme pie!"
Cliff Strutz
"Midwest cooks have a repertoire of salads found nowhere else. Dutch lettuce, a favorite at the Coffee Cup Cafe, is a central Iowa specialty with warm, creamy-sweet mustard dressing, bacon, and hard-boiled egg all atop a bed of crisp iceberg lettuce."
Michael Stern
"Coffee Cup Cafe's pancakes are soft and fluffy and fill up the entire plate."
Cliff Strutz
"No state in the union is more passionate for cinnamon buns than Iowa. While not the biggest, Coffee Cup's buns are among the best."
Michael Stern
"A specialty of the Coffee Cup pie ovens, cherry berry is sweet and tart inside, with a savory crust that melts in your mouth."
Michael Stern
"Coffee Cup banana cream pie: there is none better."
Michael Stern
"Hot beef tends to be more popular farther north, but the Coffee Cup version must not be missed. The beef is fallapart tender and juicy, the mashed potatoes are real, as is the gravy, and the bread is double-thick slices from a baked-here loaf."
Michael Stern
"A classic Iowa tenderloin. It comes with pickle and onions. Ketchup and mustard are added by the customer."
Michael Stern
"By 12:15 on a weekday, banana cream and coconut cream already had been crossed off the pie menu and there were only 3 slices of apple and 1 cherry berry remaining. But we needed cream pie, so we had a slice of Snickers Cream. Nevermind the kitsch component; this was a masterful cream pie the likes of which is rarely found outside of Iowa."
Michael Stern
"The pretty blonde waitress/baker apologized that since the peach pie just came out of the oven, it was still a bit runny. Somehow, we managed to forgive her! "
Cliff Strutz
"While we were disappointed there were no cinnamon buns on the menu the morning we stopped in, this tasty pecan roll more than made up for it."
Cliff Strutz
"Locals who come in for breakfast every morning keep their own personal cups at the Coffee Cup Cafe."
Michael Stern
"One of the surest signs of great Roadfood: a row of pickup trucks parked outside the town cafe early in the morning"
Michael Stern
"One day when we were having lunch at the Coffee Cup, a farmer drove up in his brand new tractor, attracting attention of people from inside the restaurant as well as passers-by on the street."
Michael Stern
