Restaurants in Appleton, WI

Across the guide, Appleton lists 371 places in this guide, with 229 restaurants, 79 bars, 31 cafes, and 26 quick service spots. Bars lead the category counts at 74, followed by pizza at 33 and coffee shops and cafes at 32. Restaurants are the majority of these listings.

At 49.2 places per ten thousand residents, Appleton is above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide.

280 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (8), Starbucks (5), Jimmy John's (4) and McDonald's (4).

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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.