Iowa Pork dreamed up the Tenderloin Trail, a checklist of Iowa’s establishments serving the classic breaded tenderloin sandwich, in 2017. The checklist needs to be completed by July 1, according to Iowa Pork’s website.
But not all the servers on the trail made it to the end.
- TC’s Point After restaurant in De Witt didn’t make it out of 2017 (Clinton Herald), but the tenderloins live on the mobile Chuckies Trailers, judging by this Facebook page. This appears to be the very trailer that came to the Iowa State Fair in 2019 with a pork strip basket that I was absolutely enamored with (as was Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg).
- Town House Supper Club in Wellsburg is gone.
- Nick’s, which had two locations in the Des Moines metro, closed “temporarily” in September 2018 (Register) and never came back.