Restaurants in Aurora, IL

Restaurants account for 429 of the 569 places listed for Aurora, alongside 63 quick service spots, 27 cafes and 39 bars. Mexican restaurants lead with 78 listings, followed by pizza at 48 and desserts and ice cream at 41. Bars reach 36 as a category, and sandwiches and delis reach 32.

Listings here are 63 percent independent, and the 31.5 places per ten thousand residents is below the 41.8 median across all cities.

361 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (12), McDonald's (10), Dunkin' (10) and Starbucks (8).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Aurora ranks #175 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Aurora 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.