Restaurants in Cincinnati, OH

Cincinnati's guide lists 1,614 places, and 1,055 are restaurants. The count includes 90 quick service spots, 142 cafes and 315 bars. Bars (297), coffee shops and cafes (146) and American (97) are the top categories among the places in this guide.

Cincinnati's 51.3 places per ten thousand residents are above the 41.8 median across all cities.

1,253 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (21), Subway (16), LaRosa's Pizzeria (13) and Skyline Chili (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Cincinnati ranks #41 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Cincinnati 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.