The East Village lost another restaurant this week. The Nosh Café, which specialized in smoothies, paninis, salads, bagels and toasts, permanently closed.
“After 5 years of good times and wonderful memories, The Nosh Café has closed,” read a sign taped to the front door of the restaurant at 424 E. Locust St. in Des Moines.
The restaurant was one of the few places in Des Moines to carry bread from Aaron Hall, a baker from Mount Vernon, Iowa, who was a semifinalist for Outstanding Baker in the 2022 James Beard Foundation Awards.
Longtime friends Veronica Tessler and Lesley Rish opened the restaurant in the East Village in August 2019.
Rish also owns Oh High Bakery, the home-based bakery with stuffed cookies. Tessler owns Yotopia, a frozen yogurt shop in Iowa City.
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Other recent restaurant closings in the East Village and nearby
This marks the second restaurant to close recently in the East Village. In July, chef Lynn Pritchard shuttered 503 Cocktail Lab & Tasting Room , his 2-year-old restaurant, after opening Table 128 , his farm-to-table restaurant south of downtown Des Moines, and Hugo’s Wood-Fired Kitchen , his ode to Mediterranean fare in the Drake neighborhood, this past spring.