Restaurants in Berkeley, CA

With 963 places listed in Berkeley, the guide counts 700 restaurants, 19 quick service spots, 144 cafes and 70 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category counts at 157, followed by bakeries and donuts at 57, Japanese at 56 and bars at 52. Mexican restaurants reach 48.

Of the listings here, 86 percent are independent. At 79.1 places per ten thousand residents, Berkeley is well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

830 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Peet's Coffee (9), Starbucks (6), Subway (4) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (3).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Berkeley ranks #6 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Berkeley 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.