Restaurants in Austin, TX

Austin has 6,076 places in this guide, with 4,283 of them restaurants. The remaining listings include 546 quick service spots, 478 cafes and 708 bars. Bars (666), Mexican (647) and coffee shops and cafes (496) are the three largest categories among the places listed here.

Austin's density of 61.2 places per ten thousand residents runs well above the 41.8 median across all cities.

4,473 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (77), Subway (52), McDonald's (38) and Domino's Pizza (31).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Austin ranks #68 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Austin 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.