- Bakery
- Bar
- Brasserie
- Cafe
- Cafeteria
- Catering
- Children's cafe
- Chinese restaurant
- Chocolaterie
- Coffee bar
- Coffee house
- Cupcake shop
- Dutch restaurant
- Ice cream parlour
- Indonesian restaurant
- Italian restaurant
- Japanese restaurant
- Lunch restaurant
- Meal delivery
- Mobile caterer
- Pizzeria
- Restaurant
- Sandwich shop
- Snack bar
- Spanish restaurant
- Sports cafe
- Steak house
- Surinamese restaurant
- Sushi restaurant
- Takeaway restaurant
- Thai restaurant
- Wok restaurant
IJsselstein has 91 places, of which 66 give opening hours, 73 per cent. Of those, 67 per cent open on a Sunday and 32 per cent work past eleven. Some 22 per cent have no online presence.
The night rule here is the strictest among these fourteen places: licensed premises must be shut from one until six every day, terraces included, with no distinction between weekdays and weekends. On top of that the town has no railway station; a fast tram runs to Utrecht with a stop in the middle of the old centre, and the evening public heads that way.
The old centre holds one building that ought not to be there. The tower of the Sint-Nicolaaskerk, built between 1532 and 1535 to a design by Alessandro Pasqualini, with Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders stacked one above the other, is among the earliest renaissance structures in the northern Netherlands.
The castle is gone: it was demolished in 1888. What survives is the Loyertoren, with its spiral stair, chimney piece and three wooden cells from 1769, now a museum.
Outside the town stands the tallest structure in the Netherlands. It is popularly named after the neighbouring village, but it stands on IJsselstein ground; from 1996 the municipality built the Zenderpark district on the old transmitter site.
The town counts 33,171 residents, but the peak came in 2011 at 34,348: IJsselstein is no longer growing. There is no dish of its own, and the province of Utrecht carries no protected name.