Restaurants in Cedar Rapids, IA

The Cedar Rapids listings include 673 places, among them 472 restaurants, 61 quick service spots, 55 cafes and 83 bars. Bars lead the category counts at 76, with pizza at 73, coffee shops and cafes at 55 and Mexican at 46. American restaurants add 44.

Independent places make up 63 percent of the listings. At 48.8 places per ten thousand residents, Cedar Rapids is above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

427 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Casey's (20), Starbucks (12), Subway (12) and Scooter's Coffee (10).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Cedar Rapids ranks #176 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Cedar Rapids 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.