Restaurants in Arlington Heights, IL

On this list, Arlington Heights has 259 places in this guide, including 206 restaurants, 24 cafes, 18 quick service spots, and 11 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category counts at 24, followed by pizza at 21 and Italian restaurants at 17. Restaurants make up most of the listings here.

Independent operators hold 64 percent of listings here, a share that readers can compare with the other entries in this guide.

167 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (7), Starbucks (6), Dunkin' (6) and Jimmy John's (5).

Food in Arlington Heights 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.