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Address: 236 IA-92, Ainsworth, IA 52201
Phone: (319) 657-3491
Website: https://iowabred.com/
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The Fishback & Stephenson Cider House does not serve food, focusing solely on their (from what I have heard), most excellent cider.
The food is provided by the Iowa Brëd food truck (actually a trailer), parked close by the cider house entrance.
I had two dishes. The first was fish tacos, the second, chicken nachos.
The tacos:
The reasonably sized portion of fish (≈1 oz) was battered. The batter had a good flavor, with a general tastiness, not the garlic, cajun, sweet, or beer (etc.) flavor one often gets in battered fish. The batter was also not unduly thick, allowing one to taste the fish.
The toppings consisted of pickled red onion and shredded cabbage. I enjoyed the onion. It’s flavor providing a good counterpoint to the batter. The cabbage was simply cabbage, which I am okay with. It provides crunch and just a hint of earthy, veggie flavor. However, my cabbage was not uniformly shredded or sliced. There were some good-sized chunks. This coarseness detracted a bit from the texture and mouth-feel of the taco.
The tortilla was a flour tortilla, plain and simple.
The tacos were accompanied by plain black beans and completely standard Mexican rice.
So what did I think? Well, I was hungry and munched all three tacos down with nary a complaint, but while doing so, I considered this question. How much of one’s appreciation and criticality is influenced by the setting in which the food is prepared, served, and received?
If I had received this dish from a cafe on a beach in, say, California or North Carolina, I would have been disappointed. However, this dish came from a hard-working food truck outside of a Midwestern town of 9500 people…
I enjoyed the tacos.
The nachos:
I will have to admit straight away that I haven’t had nachos for quite some time. I love them, actually one of my favorite dishes, but the calorie-counter in me has vetoed them for years.
But on this day, in this setting, I decided to throw the counting out and indulge.
And I was very glad I did. The chips are fried in-house and sinfully crispy and yummy. The toppings were fresh and well-proportioned, not too much of one thing (as in loaded down with black olives or pickled jalapeños).
They consisted of rice, beans, lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro, and cheese.
All were fresh, tasty, and plentiful. A special note on the cheese, it was shredded, which I very much enjoyed as it didn’t overpower the dish or make the excellent chips soggy, as a nacho cheese sauce often can
I chose chicken out of the list of meats (steak, chicken, barbacoa, carnitas, or ground beef). The chicken was well seasoned with a fajita-type flavor profile and chopped to a fairly fine texture, which worked really well with the nachos.
I savored every bite of the oh-so-rare treat. I might be biased in this case, but they seemed a darn fine nacho to me.
I enjoyed the setting, I appreciated the effort and skill of the two hard-working souls in the truck, and I must say, in the end, I thoroughly enjoyed the food.
There is my short review of Iowa Brëd
@RickiGoesOut