99 Restaurants to Try in Iowa Iowa boasts a broad array of dining options to satisfy any taste. We’ve found 99 restaurants (one for each county) to get you started. You’ll find best burgers in Fairfield, top tenderloins in Prairie City, super steaks in Mason City, farm-to-table in Orient, fine dining in Cedar Rapids, cultural cuisine in Elkader, eclectic eats in Des Moines, delicious barbecue in Ames, comfort food in Balltown and so much more. Happy dining!
NORTHWEST La Juanita’s Unkie’s Entertainer Restaurant Addy Mae’s Sandwich & Coffee Storm Lake (Buena Vista) and Lounge Thor (Humboldt) Shop West Bend (Palo Alto) The CO-OP Bar & Grill Backdraft Bar & Grill Archie’s Waeside Café Pomeroy (Calhoun) Holstein (Ida) Le Mars (Plymouth) Gary’s on the River Emerald’s Ike’s Bar & HomePlate Grill Spencer (Clay) Algona (Kossuth) Pocahontas (Pocahontas) Gasthaus Bar & Grill Doon Steakhouse Sac County Cattle Company Cherokee (Cherokee) Doon (Lyon) Sac City (Sac) The Taco House Old 60 Steak & Chops Blue Mountain Culinary Okoboji (Dickinson) Sheldon (O’Brien) Emporium Orange City (Sioux) Bud’s Café 1015 Steak The Diving Elk Estherville (Emmet) Sibley (Osceola) Sioux City (Woodbury)
WEST CENTRAL Prime Time Bar & Grille Sweet Joy Shoppe Millers’ Kitchen Guthrie Center (Guthrie) Atlantic (Cass) Onawa (Monona) Darrell’s Place Hamlin Cronk’s Café Dixie Quick’s (Audubon) Denison (Crawford) Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie) Santa Maria Winery Roux’s Milk & Honey Carroll (Carroll) Woodbine (Harrison) Harlan (Shelby)
SOUTHWEST The Gathering Table The Feedlot Jamie’s Coffee Mill & Deli Orient (Adair) Red Oak (Montgomery) Mount Ayr (Ringgold) Branding Iron Steakhouse Tobey Jack’s Mineola Junction Café Carbon (Adams) Steakhouse Mineola (Mills) Bedford (Taylor) Penn Drug Company The Sanctuary Up in Smoke BBQ Sidney (Fremont) Shenandoah (Page) Afton (Union)
NORTH Peppercorn Pantry 2nd Street Emporium Tom Thumb Drive-In CENTRAL Aplington (Butler) Webster City (Hamilton) Fort Dodge (Webster) Northwestern Steakhouse Mary Jo’s Hobo House Cabin Coffee Company Mason City (Cerro Gordo) Britt (Hancock) Forest City (Winnebago) The Pub on the Cedar Princess Grill & Pizzeria Belmond Drive-In Charles City (Floyd) Iowa Falls (Hardin) Belmond (Wright) Rustic Brew Stan’s Drive-In Signature’s Supper Club Hampton (Franklin) Osage (Mitchell) Northwood (Worth) The Landmark Bistro Grundy Center (Grundy)
Tried it? Let us know what you think! Tag to share. www.traveliowa.com/99restaurants CENTRAL The Lucky Pig Goldie’s Ice Cream Shoppe Prairie Canary Ogden (Boone) Prairie City (Jasper) Grinnell (Poweshiek) The Rusty Duck Zeno’s Pizza Hickory Park Dexter (Dallas) Marshalltown (Marshall) Ames (Story) 209 Main Fong’s Pizza 1901 Chop Haus Paton (Greene) Des Moines (Polk) Traer (Tama)
SOUTH The Continental Market Grille The Canteen in the Alley Centerville (Appanoose) Chariton (Lucas) Ottumwa (Wapello) CENTRAL Iron Horse Neighborhood Grill Northside Café Crouse Café Osceola (Clarke) Winterset (Madison) Indianola (Warren) Southfork Restaurant Scooter’s Pub & Grub Ludlow’s Steakhouse Bloomfield (Davis) New Sharon (Mahaska) Corydon (Wayne) Linden Street Coffeehouse Checkerboard Restaurant Lamoni (Decatur) Pleasantville (Marion) Sigourney Café Bogie’s Steakhouse Sigourney (Keokuk) Albia (Monroe)
NORTHEAST Safe House Saloon Bill’s Pizza & Smokehouse The White House Supper Club Lansing (Allamakee) Independence (Buchanan) St. Lucas (Fayette) Lincoln Café Klunder’s Kafe Teluw ut Café Belle Plaine (Benton) New Hampton (Chickasaw) Cresco (Howard) Galleria de Paco Schera’s Mabe’s Pizza Waterloo (Black Hawk) Elkader (Clayton) Decorah (Winneshiek) The Wild Carrot The Bread Basket Restaurant Waverly (Bremer) and Tea Room Manchester (Delaware)
EAST CENTRAL Mill Creek Café Big Grove Brewery Salvatore’s Ristorante Clarence (Cedar) Solon (Johnson) Muscatine (Muscatine) Ox Yoke Inn Cobble Hill Eatery & Dispensary Kalona Brewing Company Amana (Iowa) Cedar Rapids (Linn) Kalona (Washington)
EAST Rastrelli’s Bombfire Pizza Crane & Pelican Clinton (Clinton) Sabula (Jackson) Le Claire (Scott) Breitbach’s Country Dining The General Store Pub Balltown (Dubuque) Stone City (Jones)
SOUTHEAST La Tavola The Cider House Johnnie B’s Burlington (Des Moines) Fairfield (Jefferson) Wapello (Louisa) River Rock Café Atlas Steak & Smokehouse Bonaparte Retreat Mount Pleasant (Henry) Fort Madison (Lee) Bonaparte (Van Buren)
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