Flavory Bistro

I really enjoying coming here. The waiter is always pleasant and the food is delicious and fresh. Vegetable salad is my go to, adding some smoked salmon with the gluten free bread. With the green juice. I always recommend when someone is looking for healthier options in Ankeny.

I really enjoying coming here. The waiter is always pleasant and the food is delicious and fresh. Vegetable salad is my go to, adding some smoked salmon with the gluten free bread. With the green juice. I always recommend when someone is looking for healthier options in Ankeny.

Seven of us ate dinner here and we had a great meal. We loved the setting of this restaurant and conversation for our large group was easy. Our waiter, Stefan, who presented himself as the son of the owner, was quite charming. We also appreciated that all our dishes were well seasoned. This is a wonderful little restaurant.

Seven of us ate dinner here and we had a great meal. We loved the setting of this restaurant and conversation for our large group was easy. Our waiter, Stefan, who presented himself as the son of the owner, was quite charming. We also appreciated that all our dishes were well seasoned. This is a wonderful little restaurant.

This is one of the worst dining experiences I’ve ever had, if not the worst. We came for lunch 2/12/26, a Thursday. It is a reasonable expectation to be out in an hour on a workday at lunch. Seventy-five minutes later, we had to ask for our food (which still hadn’t arrived) to go to eat in the car on the way back to work because they had made us so late. They had one indifferent server attending to and hosting for the entire, packed restaurant. Poor staffing decision. It took them five minutes to seat us (with open tables) and 30 minutes to even get us water. Unreal! It was 45 minutes after we ordered before we saw our food, which was an hour and 15 minutes after we’d arrived. The server made no apologies, did not give us a heads up on the wait or any delays, or communicate at all—indeed, we saw him like three times and he had nothing to say even when we said we needed the food to go because we were late. No mitigation efforts, no comps, nothing. Just cold, overpriced slop thrown in a to-go box (pictured). Also, enjoy the screaming kids at lunchtime…but who can blame them? They’re probably starving! Spoiler alert: the food is NOT worth a 75-minute wait at a midweek workday lunch or the abysmal service. The worst part is, both the server and the management on here when they respond to reviews show no contrition or desire to do better. The response is always, “Tough cookies…the food is made from scratch.” Seriously don’t know how they stay in business.