For the 2025 Bread & Butter dining guide, Little Village food reviewers visited and reviewed 10 Cedar Rapids area eateries. You can find more local restaurant coverage here.
MARION
New York Gyro
808 7th Ave, Marion, 319-200-1750
I feel like once a year when I do these reviews, there’s always one restaurant I’ve never visited that becomes a new favorite in the rotation. I think 2025’s pick will be New York Gyro and their signature gyro. With beautiful deep-green lettuce and hefty slices of gyro meat piled into a pillowy pita and dripping with tzatziki sauce, it’s the platonic ideal of a gyro, the gyro that all lesser gyros aspire to. Served with lemon salt-dusted fries and a drink for under 20 bucks, it’s the ideal grab ‘n’ go lunch in Marion. —Malcolm MacDougall
Goldfinch Tap + Eatery
740 10th St, Marion, 319-826-2047…