Restaurants in Alexandria, VA

The Alexandria listings include 725 places, among them 559 restaurants, 32 quick service spots, 68 cafes and 58 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category list at 70, with bars at 58 and bakeries and donuts at 47. American places follow at 44 and pizza at 43.

Of all listings, 75 percent are independent, and 45.6 places per ten thousand residents is above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

544 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (18), Subway (9), McDonald's (8) and Dunkin' (8).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Alexandria ranks #57 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Alexandria 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.