Restaurants in Ankeny, IA

Within this guide, Ankeny has 275 places listed here, including 208 restaurants, 25 cafes, 21 bars, and 20 quick service spots. Pizza tops the category counts at 32, followed by coffee shops and cafes at 25 and Mexican restaurants at 24. The bulk of the list is restaurants.

Independent operators hold 53 percent of the listings in this guide, a share that readers can compare with other cities here.

146 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Casey's (9), Starbucks (8), Subway (6) and McDonald's (5).

Food in Ankeny by cuisine

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Place data from the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org), which includes data from Meta, Microsoft and Foursquare, used under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses. Restaurants open, close and move; check with the restaurant before you go. Data refreshed 2026-10-11.