Steven Vail at Lucca
Steven Vail is an international art dealer whose Steven Vail Fine Arts gallery is in Des Moines. I asked him to lunch, and he chose Lucca, Steve Logsdon’s mostly Italian [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in Lunch With...
Posted September 02, 2020in Lunch With...
Jessica Dunker at Table 128
Jessica Dunker is head of the Iowa Restaurant Association, an organization that represents 600 members and 6,300 eating establishments. I asked her to lunch, and she chose Table 128, a [...]
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Posted August 05, 2020in Lunch With...
Jeff Bruning at Lucky Horse Beer & Burgers
Jeff Bruning is a partner in Full Court Press, a gang of friends and entrepreneurs who open restaurants from conception to sizzle and serve. We asked him to lunch recently, [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Lunch With...
Steve Flood at Sakari
After nearly 30 years in the employee benefits business, Steve Flood retired from Holmes Murphy at age 57. Reflecting on his career, he said, “I have embraced our company’s two [...]
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Posted May 07, 2020in Lunch With...
Lunch with Chad Elliott at Ritual Café
Iowa musician was on the road 235 nights last year. Chad Elliott is an old-fashioned troubadour. He lives in Lamoni but spends two thirds of his nights each year on [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Lunch With...
Alice Meyer at Grounds for Celebration
Alice Meyer is the owner of Beaverdale Books, the only remaining independent new book dealer in the metro. We asked her to lunch recently, and she chose Grounds for Celebration [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Lunch With...
Tom Boesen
Discussions of flowers, Valentine’s Day and the changes the flower industry has undergone in his six decades in the business. Tom Boesen is part of a third-generation Des Moines family [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Lunch With...
Dave Beveridge
A planned trip to Noah’s sidelined by weather Dave Beveridge owns Miller’s Hardware, a much-loved Drake area business that hangs on proudly in the era of Home Depot, Lowes, Menards [...]
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Posted December 04, 2019in Lunch With...
Kelly Norris at Trellis
“Gardens are never the same twice; they always go off on new riffs.” Kelly Norris is the Director of Horticulture and Education for the Greater Des Moines Botanical Gardens (GDMBG). [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Lunch With...
Kent Henning
Grand View University president explains its growth over lunch at Tursi’s Latin King. Kent Henning is a month away from closing out 20 years of leadership at Grand View University. [...]
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