3-27-2026 Des Moines Food News: Make It Work Edition

Welcome to the new home for Des Moines Gems, Guides, and Goodies (G3), Des Moines and central Iowa’s restaurant and food business news.

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• The Eggroll Ladies 💚✊🏽 return to food trucking, closing the storefront (FB link).
• The Outside Scoop, Grimes, opens April 1st.
• Kitchen Amor✊🏽 closed permanently in January (Google Maps link).
• Syd’s Sweet ‘N Sips is open in Ankeny. (It opened last year, apparently.)
• Support Des Moines Public Schools tonight with Dine Out for DMPS.
• Chain news
  • Arby’s on 22nd in WDM closed permanently Monday. By last night, all of the signage was gone.
  • Ziggi’s Coffee has a Grimes location.
  • The Huddle Sports Bar will open in Waukee as part of Social Indoor Central Iowa, a national advertising and entertainment . . . thing. It’s unclear if the sports bar will have food or be locally owned. Or what Social Indoor even is.
  • Last time we checked, DSM was up to three planned Dutch Bros. locations. We’re up to six (archive.today link to Reg).
    • Des Moines
      • Former Fazoli’s at 4800 SE 14th Street
      • 4019 Merle Hay Road
      • 2459 E. Euclid
    • Ankeny, 315 N.W. 36th Drive
    • Waukee, 440 S.E. Alice’s Road
    • West Des Moines, 5950 Mills Civic Pkwy

Goodies

Vienna Ripper from Ted’s Coney Island💚. Great if you don’t have acid reflux problems. Be sure to have many napkins and floss. For those uninitiated, this is a ripper.

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That’s it for this week. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this abrupt transition. G3 will be free to the public until we sort out all the things.