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Posted February 05, 2020in Belly Up To...

Norm’s Pub

A Waukee bar where you can bank on having a good time. A 100-plus-year-old fixture located in the heart of downtown Waukee was formerly a bank, and, most recently, a [...]

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Posted December 04, 2019in Belly Up To...

Lumber Axe

Five bars, games are rolled into one. When entering the Lumber Axe on Southwest Sixth Street, a sign is posted with five options. Do you take a left to the [...]

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Posted November 06, 2019in Belly Up To...

Winchester in Valley Junction

Classic cocktails are shaken, with a spin. Take a walk inside the Winchester Pub in Valley Junction, and you’ll find the bartenders shaking things up — literally. After they’ve poured [...]

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Posted October 02, 2019in Belly Up To...

Mickey Finn’s

Urbandale bar opens early, closes late. Since 1983, Urbandale folks have kissed — or at least touched — the worn blarney stone located at the entrance just outside Mickey Finn’s. [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Belly Up To...

The Operating Room

It’s just what the doctor ordered. In a typical hospital operating room, doctors commonly ask for scalpels, gauze or a hemostat. In the Operating Room at West Glen Town Center, [...]

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Posted July 31, 2019in Belly Up To...

Tiki bar vacation

Bellhop Tiki bar opens in East Village. Imagine a tiki bar. What comes to mind? Usually it’s in a tropical place — a hut with a thatched roof, where patrons [...]

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Posted July 03, 2019in Belly Up To...

Confluence Brewing Company

Striving to keep things local When Confluence Brewing Company opened up in 2012, the staff created a handful of beers inside the brewery in an industrial district close to Gray’s [...]

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Posted June 05, 2019in Belly Up To...

Mistress Brewing

Giant taproom breathes life into former Dahl’s grocery store. Two Ankeny businessmen, Shawn McNeeley and Jeff Heng, have taken on a mistress, which Shawn’s wife is OK with. But this [...]

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Posted May 01, 2019in Belly Up To...

Lynn’s on Merle Hay

“Once you’re here, you’re family.” Take a drive north on Merle Hay Road through Johnston, and you’ll find old buildings mixed with new. A new Fareway and a Casey’s sit [...]

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Posted April 03, 2019in Belly Up To...

Captain Roy’s Riverside Hangout

A vibe that doesn’t exist anywhere else in Des Moines Since the flood of 1993, Birdland Marina’s concession stand building along the Des Moines River sat empty. Jack Daugherty lived [...]

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