Mother and daughter opened the cafe for the breakfast crowd. The building and business are now for sale. A customer celebration will take place Nov. 2, the day after closing. The humble but cheerful ...

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THORNTON - Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe was remembered Saturday on what would have been her 87th birthday by North Iowans dining at the Chit Chat Cafe in Thornton. She died in 1962 at the age of 36.

THORNTON | For nearly four decades Richard Dorenkamp has been getting up at 5 a.m., going down to the Chit Chat Cafe and opening everything up for 5:30 a.m. coffee drinkers. However, after Friday, ...

A small northern Iowa town is losing a favored gathering place, the Chit Chat Cafe.Owner Richard Dorenkamp told the Mason City Globe Gazette that he must close the Thornton restaurant after 39 years ...

I must be getting to a certain age, what that certain age is I am not sure, but within the last month I have received four invitations from various facets of my life to "get together" and "catch up".

A dining space outfitted with handsome wood chairs and tables is -- surprisingly -- embedded within a Turkish-American grocery store. In one corner, there's a big-screen TV, easy chairs and a coffee ...

Mr Cheong Hon Kee, 65, had been working in the telecommunications industry for decades and travelled the world for work. But after a fall four years ago that led to bleeding in his brain, he no longer ...

New to Port Jefferson Station is a Turkish restaurant with the unlikely name of Erol’s Chit Chat Cafe. The “Erol” part refers to co-owner Erol Catalbas, said business partner Semiral Catalbas; the ...