Restaurants in Birmingham, AL

Birmingham, a city of 196,357 people, has 1,117 places listed in this guide, including 734 restaurants, 108 quick service spots, 77 cafes and 192 bars. Bars dominate the category counts at 184, ahead of Coffee shops and cafes at 78 and American at 74 among the listings.

The city's listings work out to 56.9 places per 10,000 residents, above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That is based on this guide's listings rather than every business operating in town.

759 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (21), McDonald's (15), Burger King (12) and Starbucks (12).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Birmingham ranks #115 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Birmingham 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.