Restaurants in Clearwater, FL

Clearwater lists 755 places in this guide: 553 restaurants, 41 quick-service spots, 58 cafes and 96 bars. Bars are the top category with 94 listings, followed by coffee shops and cafes at 63 and pizza at 52, with desserts and ice cream at 42 close behind.

Clearwater's density is 64.6 places per ten thousand residents, comfortably above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide.

526 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (13), Subway (13), Dunkin' (11) and McDonald's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Clearwater ranks #95 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Clearwater 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.