Restaurants in Akron, OH

Akron's 189,664 residents are paired with 738 places listed in this guide, made up of 487 restaurants, 57 quick service spots, 50 cafes and 141 bars. Bars rank first among the categories at 127, with Pizza at 78 and Coffee shops and cafes at 52 next.

Akron has 38.9 listed places per 10,000 residents, which is below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That figure is drawn from this guide's listings and is not a full count of the city's businesses.

544 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are McDonald's (15), Subway (14), Starbucks (10) and Wendy's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Akron ranks #67 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.