Restaurants in Asheville, NC

Asheville's 1,120 listed places break down into 721 restaurants, 78 quick-service spots, 118 cafes and 192 bars. Bars lead the category counts at 144, with coffee shops and cafes at 125, American food and pizza at 65 each, and Mexican at 64.

Asheville's 117.9 places per ten thousand residents put it far above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide.

778 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (23), Subway (13), McDonald's (13) and Chick-fil-A (8).

Food in Asheville 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.