Generations of locals and students have feasted on the plate-covering pancakes at this no-frills diner downtown. The coffee is cheap and just keeps coming. The full range of egg dishes are tasty, as are the farmhouse sausage patties. Note that one of the pancakes will fill up all but the most ravenous. The two pancake 'short stack' will feed a small family.
Grove Cafe
Iowa
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