Cafe Diem of Ankeny

Cafe Diem of Ankeny is a coffee shop in Ankeny, Iowa. It serves handcrafted espresso drinks, breakfast, and lunch, with a menu that includes drip coffee, pour over, Americano, latte, mocha, cappuccino, caramel macchiato, cortado, chai, hot chocolate, matcha, and loose leaf tea, alongside iced drinks, cold brew, smoothies, blended chai and matcha, Italian soda, and carrot juice. Food options include chicken salad and grilled cheese sandwiches, a grilled chicken panini, a black bean burger, salads, Belgian waffles, bagels with cream cheese, and breakfast sandwiches on everything ciabatta or croissant. Baristas are trained to emphasize the natural flavors of each coffee blend. Mobile ordering is available at the Ankeny locations, and the shop offers a conference room that can be reserved for work sessions, team meetings, and small-group events. It holds a rating of 4.60 from 642 reviews.

Cafe Diem was founded in 2000 as a small family-run cafe and expanded to Ankeny in 2006, with a DMACC location added in 2014. The Ankeny shop is designed as a space for a lunch break, a midday pick-me-up, studying, meeting friends, or holding a meeting outside the workspace, and it aims to be inclusive for students, professionals, and guests stopping in for a bite. The cafe describes its involvement in chamber boards and local initiatives, and invests in its employees through market research trips, ongoing training, and professional growth opportunities.

The shop sits on South Ankeny Boulevard, about a tenth of a mile from that road, roughly 0.2 miles from Heritage Elementary School and 0.3 miles from Building 20 at the college. Saylor Creek is about 0.4 miles away, and Southeast Oralabor Road and Southwest Magazine Road are each about half a mile from the location.

Cafe Diem of Ankeny has built a solid reputation among the customers it has served, with an established track record reflected in a large base of customer reviews. For Ankeny, it is a long-running local coffee shop that pairs handcrafted espresso and a full breakfast and lunch menu with a conference room and mobile ordering.