For 2026, there were more than 15,000 coffee shops nominated from around the globe, but Onyx Coffee Lab, a specialty coffee roastery with eight locations in the state of Arkansas, has officially been dubbed the best coffee shop in the world.
Immigrant families brought Old World recipes and a fierce commitment to hospitality to Iowa’s capital, opening humble groceries, taverns and corner cafés that gradually evolved into full‑service dining rooms.
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Susan Stapleton,
Des Moines Register,
6 Mar. 2026
There are 50,000 video gambling terminals, in most of the taverns and convenience stores in the state.
By the early 1930s, widespread crime, tainted liquor and the need for tax revenue fueled public dissatisfaction, ultimately leading to Prohibition’s repeal in 1933 and the return of regulated barrooms.
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