Cedar Falls, Iowa: Vegan meals & enjoyable information

Yeast-raised, fried vegan donuts are alive & effectively at Icon Donuts in Cedar Falls. (They’ve a Waterloo location as effectively.)

To my data, Icon is the one donut store within the state of Iowa the place you’ll find fried vegan donuts.

They provide two flavors of vegan donuts each Friday via Sunday.

They generally publish the flavors on their Fb web page. In the event that they’re not listed on-line, simply give them a name.

When you’re there, the vegan donuts are clearly marked within the donut case.

Search for choices like rhubarb glazed with apple pie filling, berry, glazed, twists, lengthy johns, and even Boston cream crammed.

They’re tremendous bouncy, contemporary, and completely scrumptious. The drive to Cedar Falls is value it for the vegan donuts alone.

(I ought to know! I’ve achieved it myself greater than as soon as.)

In the event you’re coming from a protracted methods away, give them a name, and you may place an order for vegan donuts. That approach you received’t be dissatisfied in the event that they’re bought out, which occurs generally.

In the event you’d like some espresso to go along with your donuts, they’ve scrumptious espresso drinks with non-dairy milk. I particularly love their oat milk latte.

(For a sneak peek inside Icon, take a look at my Instagram reel that includes their Waterloo location.)

Cup of Joe is a brilliant cute espresso and tea place with a 1950’s aesthetic on Most important Road in downtown.

When you’re there seize a latte, in addition to a vegan cinnamon roll (accessible Wednesdays).

They’re splendidly gooey inside, and style do-it-yourself in the absolute best approach.

For baked items, they’ve at the very least 2 vegan choices every single day.

Their in-house bakers differ their vegan pastries, which embody espresso truffles, croissants, muffins, cookies, and donuts.

In addition they settle for particular orders.

For vegan espresso drinks, they’ve pea milk as their one non-dairy possibility.

Craving one thing lighter? Try their fruit smoothies.

Scratch Cupcakery is a cupcake chain, which presents one taste of vegan cupcake and one vegan cookie taste each day.

The flavour modifications by the day. So take a peek at their each day menu to know what they’re promoting on the day you propose to go to.

Taste potentialities embody strawberry shortcake, s’mores, wedding ceremony day, and chocolate chip.

Along with their Cedar Falls location, Scratch Cupcakery has bakeries in Waterloo and Coralville.

On Saturday mornings from Might to October, go to the Cedar Falls farmers market. It’s only a fast jaunt from downtown.

The market is smaller in measurement & simple to get round.

There’s loads of produce on supply, in addition to meals vans.

Remember to take a look at Bowls of Love for acaí or dragonfruit bowls, in addition to Moo’s Bakery for scrumptious vegan baked items!

Have an issue {that a} heat cookie would resolve?

Go to Insomnia Cookies.

It’s a bakery chain with over 200 areas, together with one on School Road.

They’ve a number of totally different vegan cookie choices – together with vegan birthday cake, vegan chocolate chunk, and vegan double chocolate chunk.

As you may need guessed by the title, they’re open very late for night time owls & partygoers. That’s excellent news in the event you get a midnight cookie craving.

City Pie is a quick informal pizza place that has an in depth separate menu of vegan pizzas.

Anticipate distinctive choices like a Thai-inspired pizza with peanut sauce, a pie that emulates the flavors of a crab rangoon, and a buffalo chickpea pizza.

At any time when I see a vegan taco pizza on the menu, that’s a should for me.

Their Cali taco comes with taco sauce, non-dairy cheese, garlic, black olives, shredded lettuce, inexperienced onions, diced tomatoes, and tortilla chips on a Neopolitan crust.

The pizza was okay, however somewhat bland.

It was gentle on sauce, and their tortilla chips are unseasoned. A taco pizza is at all times higher with a flavored chip like spicy candy chili Doritos, that are unintentionally vegan.

The taco pizza might additionally actually use some type of vegan meat.

Curiously, the one plant meat supplied at City Pie is vegan hen, and it’s not on the taco. If a pizza place is simply going to have one vegan meat possibility, vegan sausage, pepperoni, soy chorizo, and even burger would make much more sense for a pizza.

The Cali taco was first rate, but when I am going again, I’ll strive one in every of their different vegan choices.

(To see this pizza in motion, take a look at my Instagram reel. And in the event you’re searching for an incredible vegan taco pizza, the one at Dough Firm in Des Moines is my present favourite.)

Whiskey Street in downtown Cedar Falls is a rustic western-themed restaurant & bar.

They’ve vegetarian choices marked on the menu. From there you’ll should ask your server questions on what might be ready vegan.

The combined berry salad is vegan in the event you omit the chocolate croutons. It’s a spinach salad with strawberries, blueberries, toasted almonds, avocado, and a raspberry French dressing.

In addition they supply fajita salad and pita wraps with soy hen. Omit the cheese, ranch, and bitter cream.

Issues to do in Cedar Falls

Between meals and snacks, you’ll want another issues to do to move the time.

Fortunately, Cedar Falls has loads of shops and museums to discover.

There are many enjoyable shops up and down the Downtown District.

In the event you like stationery, you’ll take pleasure in perusing the distinctive wares at Fairly Good Co.

The Ice Home Museum is true alongside the Cedar River, the place individuals used to take instruments out to the frozen river to chip away on the ice.

Large blocks would go into the ice home, the place it could be saved all yr ‘spherical. (Even in the summertime!) It saved 6,000 to eight,000 tons of ice.

Earlier than individuals had fashionable refrigeration, they’d decide up a block of ice as their final cease on the way in which residence. Then they might put it into their ice chests to maintain their meals chilly all through the week.

Contained in the museum, there’s a film on loop sharing the historical past of the ice home, a number of varieties of ice chests, and an interactive pulley, the place you possibly can strive your hand at lifting a block of “ice.”

It’s wild to consider individuals standing on a river and breaking into the ice to salvage it for his or her refrigeration wants.

Refrigeration and the power to make your individual ice any time you need isn’t a contemporary amenity that will get lots of hype.

However wow, there’s rather a lot to study at this museum, and causes to really feel grateful for the time we dwell in.

(Enjoyable truth: In 1921 the ice home burned down. It had been product of wooden. After they rebuilt it, they made the partitions first, however this time with clay tile, strengthened with metal ties.

As an alternative of constructing scaffolding, the place carpenters might construct a roof, they waited for winter. Then they crammed the ceiling-less constructing with ice blocks. As soon as they’d completed the ice harvest season, they stood on high of the ice to construct the roof!)

By the way in which, I additionally made an Instagram reel highlighting a number of the finer factors of a go to there.

The Victorian House & Carriage Museum is adjoining to the world the place the farmers market takes place.

That makes it very helpful to pop in & take a fast tour. The museum is free, however donations are welcome.

The Victorian home is all arrange in a approach that tells a narrative – reminding you of the each day lives of the individuals who lived there.

There are black and white photographs on the partitions, a range arrange with forged iron pans, bedrooms with clothes laid out to put on, and kids’s toys scattered of their rooms.

It makes you’re feeling such as you’re strolling across the halls of Disney World’s Haunted Mansion sans Doom Buggy.

It’s good that the tour is self led, which implies you possibly can actually go at your individual tempo.

Downstairs there’s additionally the William J. Lenoir mannequin railroad.

For extra vegan highlights round Iowa, take a look at these helpful guides.

Content material up to date October 16, 2024 from an earlier publish on July 10, 2019.