Restaurants in Cleveland, OH

Cleveland's guide lists 2,045 places, and 1,398 are restaurants. The rest include 123 quick service spots, 146 cafes and 371 bars. Bars (344), coffee shops and cafes (153) and sandwiches and delis (140) lead the categories among the listed places.

Cleveland posts 56.0 places per ten thousand residents, well above the 41.8 median across all cities.

1,645 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (38), Starbucks (22), McDonald's (20) and Krispy Krunchy Chicken (16).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Cleveland ranks #27 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Cleveland 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.