Restaurants in Chattanooga, TN

Restaurants account for 939 of the 1,334 places listed for Chattanooga, alongside 134 quick service spots, 107 cafes and 144 bars. Bars lead the categories at 123, followed by coffee shops and cafes at 111 and Mexican restaurants at 94. Sandwiches and delis add 75, and pizza is at 74.

Of the listings, 61 percent are independent, and the 69.7 places per ten thousand residents is well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

810 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (30), Starbucks (23), Krystal (20) and Taco Bell (15).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Chattanooga ranks #215 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Chattanooga 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.