Restaurants in Abilene, TX

This guide shows 504 places in Abilene, with 358 restaurants, 61 quick service spots, 33 cafes and 42 bars. Coffee shops and cafes narrowly lead the categories at 41, with bars at 40, pizza at 38 and bakeries and donuts at 37. Mexican restaurants reach 35.

Independent-owned places are 58 percent of listings here. At 38.6 places per ten thousand residents, Abilene sits just below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

291 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (14), Starbucks (10), Chick-fil-A (6) and Burger King (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Abilene ranks #253 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Abilene by cuisine

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Place data from the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org), which includes data from Meta, Microsoft and Foursquare, used under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses. Restaurants open, close and move; check with the restaurant before you go. Data refreshed 2026-10-11.