Restaurants in Buffalo, NY

Buffalo has 1,259 places in this guide, with 829 restaurants among them. Quick service accounts for 70, cafes for 117 and bars for 233. Bars (201), coffee shops and cafes (122) and pizza (83) are the top categories among the listed places.

Buffalo's 45.5 places per ten thousand residents rise above the 41.8 median across all cities.

1,081 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (10), Starbucks (9), McDonald's (9) and Tim Hortons (8).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Buffalo ranks #7 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.