Restaurants in Chicago, IL

With 14,058 places listed, Chicago's restaurants number 10,206. The rest include 780 quick service spots, 1,224 cafes and 1,747 bars. Bars (1,696), coffee shops and cafes (1,269) and Mexican (1,207) are the three largest categories among the listed places in this guide.

Density in Chicago runs at 51.7 places per ten thousand residents, above the 41.8 median across all cities.

11,055 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (229), Starbucks (226), Dunkin' (220) and McDonald's (116).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Chicago ranks #37 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Chicago 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.