Restaurants in Chesapeake, VA

Chesapeake lists 758 places in this guide, 579 of them restaurants. Quick service accounts for 96, cafes for 38 and bars for 42. Pizza (68), bakeries and donuts (49) and Mexican (44) are the three largest categories among the places listed.

Places per ten thousand residents come to 29.7 in Chesapeake, under the 41.8 median across all cities.

448 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (19), Subway (17), McDonald's (13) and Dunkin' (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Chesapeake ranks #232 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Chesapeake 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.