Restaurants in Iowa City, IA

For this city, Iowa City lists 368 places in this guide, with 257 restaurants, 47 bars, 41 cafes, and 19 quick service spots. Bars lead the category counts at 45, with coffee shops and cafes at 44 and pizza at 29. Restaurants account for most of the entries.

At 48.0 places per ten thousand residents, Iowa City is above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide.

271 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Casey's (7), Starbucks (5), Dairy Queen (5) and Subway (5).

Food in Iowa City 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.