Restaurants in Baltimore, MD

Among 2,954 listed places in Baltimore, 2,147 are restaurants. Quick service spots number 152, cafes 197 and bars 440. Bars (431), pizza (214) and coffee shops and cafes (209) are the three largest categories, all drawn from the places in this guide.

Baltimore's 52.0 places per ten thousand residents clear the 41.8 median across all cities.

2,439 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (49), Dunkin' (32), Starbucks (30) and McDonald's (24).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Baltimore ranks #18 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Baltimore 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.