Restaurants in Carmel, IN

Carmel has 419 places listed in this guide, made up of 322 restaurants, 18 quick-service spots, 42 cafes and 33 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category counts at 44, with pizza at 38, sandwiches and delis at 29 and bakeries and donuts at 28.

Carmel's 40.4 places per ten thousand residents sit a little under the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide.

251 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (13), Subway (5), Jimmy John's (4) and McDonald's (3).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Carmel ranks #224 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.