Based on 18 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 3.9 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout
Address:
410 S Ankeny Blvd, Ankeny, IA 50023
Phone: (515) 965-7802
Hours
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed |
| Tuesday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Saturday | 4–9 PM |
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Reviews
R Holmes
We were excited to find a new Italian restaurant in Ankeny. Exemplary service. Never had a better server anywhere! Food excellently presented and prepared. We are looking forward to going back again!
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Chris Cramblit
Went there for lunch buffet at 11:45. Everything was scraps except pizza. Didn’t have time to go anywhere els, so we scraped up some scraps and some pizza. Waitress sat us and took our drink order, never seen her again until she came with our drinks as we were getting ready to leave. Iced tea looked like sewer water, didn’t even want to taste it. Will not be returning!
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Jerry Van Horne
Great little new Italian style restaurant in Ankeny, great Happy hour prices, friendly service and great atmosphere!
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Christopher Foster
Arguably the best Alfredo pizza I have had, Alfredo and gyro were above average. The house dressing of creamy parms is great. The servers are polite but service could have been faster. Short staffed like everyone else it seems. We will be back.
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Lannie Schafroth
Menu is stripped down to the basics. Things you can get at Olive Garden. The best items are gone from when it was Yannis. We were the only ones here and it still took 30m for our food. The servers were very friendly. The food was decent but without our favorite items we probably won’t be back.
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Martha Payano
I visited on a Tuesday during dinner time there was a few people there. The server didn’t asked what we want to drink and just went straight to the appetizer. We waited a long time to get the appetizer and even 30 minutes after that, we still didn’t get our food. We were so upset that we just left and when I was paying my bill I noticed that people that arrived after us had their gotten their food. If I could give this restaurant a 0 I would with no hesitation.
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Zach Steilen
Food was delicious and the service was fantastic. They knew my 3 yr old super hungry so they made sure to bring his food out early. Best service we have had in a long time.
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Michael Eddy
my wife and i usually hit this place 3 or 4 times a year. been doing it for a long time, but this was actually the first time back this year since winter ended. we immediately noticed it looked quite different inside. that’s when we found out it had been sold. i REALLY want this place to succeed, so that’s why i’m going to be a little detailed in hopes they make some changes. i get it, you buy an established restaurant, but want to make it your own. however, it’s still very much like yannis, but very much not like yannis. i’ll explain. the inside had been completely sanitized, for lack of a better word. many of the really neat pieces of ambience had been removed. there was no longer any music playing, so it was awkwardly quiet. we went for the lunch buffet and seriously, there were only two tables with people at them over what was always a really busy time whenever we went in the past, which should be quite telling in itself. and while the food at the buffet was basically the same as yannis, it was just the bare bones in portions as well as missing some of the normal dishes they always had. i’m guessing their traffic has dropped so low that they’re not preparing more than absolutely necessary. the steak was always a favorite and just between my wife and i, we emptied what little bit was there and it was never replenished during our stay and i even asked about it early on. and it was missing it’s familiar flavor that made it so mouth-watering. perhaps their evening hours see far more business, but the buffet/lunch time was basically deserted. the bottom line is that unless you plan to do a completely different style restaurant, you can’t take an established and well-loved location and keep most of what they always did, but also discard a lot of what they did and still expect to retain their customers. imo anyway, if you brought back the ambience and restored the buffet to its original splendor, it’d be a big step in filling the tables. kudos btw to our server. she was extremely polite and even offered a free dessert to my wife because i think she probably sensed we were a bit disappointed in the changes. we’ll have to stop back in a while and just see if anything has changed before we officially decide to keep it on our list or not.
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Katie Goodmann
Run! Don’t walk to this amazing, FEMALE and LOCALLY owned, restaurant. The De Burgo and Chicken Parm were fabulous. I could have eaten 3 bowls of the loaded potato soup and the service was exemplary. Attentive but not over-bearing, and the Lemon Drop Martini was perfect!
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Kathy Johnson
Food was delicious. However the cooks there a week ago have been let go. Service is very slow. The music in the background is jazz, for an Italian restaurant?? Owner is very scattered and does not respect her employees.
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