“Much like Horizon Line, the aesthetic is on-point and delivers a full guest experience,” Tillinghast says.Īt noon, Tillinghast heads back into the heart of downtown Des Moines, which requires a stop at El Bait Shop. Kilda, which serves Counter Culture coffee and Australian wines, has grown to include two café locations, with a restaurant downtown and a second opening this spring.
enjoying The Saint: fried egg, housemade ginger sausage, bacon, avocado, red onion, red arugula and tomato jam on a housemade sesame seed bun.” An Australian-style coffee shop, St. “La Mie Elevate’s breakfast scramble is fantastic: sometimes the veggie scramble is the go-to, sometimes the meat scramble is the go-to. The first stop is La Mie Elevate, the downtown location of the well-established bakery. Tillinghast has two breakfast favorites, “so I’m going to pretend my appetite would be big enough for both,” he says. They serve all the coffee shop standards as well as creative seasonal menus, says Tillinghast, adding that if you can’t squeeze in a visit, you can still try their Cold-Brew Cider at home. Horizon Line opened in 2017, founded by two friends, Brad Penna and Nam Ho, both from Southern California, who sought to create delicious coffee and an inclusive community at the spacious and immaculate shop. “It doesn’t matter the season it could be below zero and I would still order their cold brew,” he says. Here, he shares his own perfectly mapped-out bar crawl in his hometown.įor Tillinghast, the day starts with a cold brew from Horizon Line Coffee in the Western Gateway neighborhood.
“I think I speak for all of us when I say that we want to get to a level of consistency where Des Moines is looked at as a great place to cocktail hop,” Tillinghast says. Boosted by bars like Hello, Marjorie, Bellhop (both from DMDT, which stands for “Des Moines Does Things”) and The Bartender’s Handshake, there’s plenty to explore and enjoy. “There are a lot of young professionals in Des Moines, and I think we’re giving them something that they were previously moving to a bigger city for,” says Nick Tillinghast, a Des Moines native and partner in hospitality group DMDT Hospitality & Lifestyle.ĭes Moines is home to a young but quickly growing cocktail scene, which is why it landed on our Imbibe 75 Destinations list for 2020. Long a business hub for the insurance and publishing industries, Iowa’s capital city has been increasingly finding ways to cater to its creative communities, and that growth often starts with a good cocktail bar.
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