Restaurants in Allentown, PA

Here, 458 places are listed in Allentown: 348 restaurants, 28 quick service spots, 21 cafes and 61 bars. Bars are the top category at 48, followed by pizza at 43, Latin American restaurants at 36 and sandwiches and delis at 30. American places reach 28.

Independent-owned places are 79 percent of listings. At 36.0 places per ten thousand residents, Allentown sits below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

363 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (9), Subway (6), Dunkin' Donuts (5) and McDonald's (4).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Allentown ranks #36 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Allentown 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.