Restaurants in Charlotte, NC

Charlotte's listings come to 4,123 places, 2,990 of them restaurants. Quick service spots number 349, cafes 268 and bars 487. The top categories are bars (457), coffee shops and cafes (276) and pizza (248), all drawn from the places in this guide.

With 943,476 residents, Charlotte posts 43.7 places per ten thousand residents, just above the 41.8 median across all cities.

2,656 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (81), Subway (40), McDonald's (37) and Dunkin' (31).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Charlotte ranks #155 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Charlotte 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.