Restaurants in College Station, TX

College Station has 560 places in this guide, with 407 restaurants, 49 quick service spots, 46 cafes and 52 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead the categories at 50, with bars at 49, pizza at 43 and Mexican at 41. Sandwiches and delis add 35, and bakeries and donuts reach 34.

Independent places make up 50 percent of the listings. At 43.7 places per ten thousand residents, College Station sits just above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

282 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (12), Subway (12), Chick-fil-A (7) and McDonald's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, College Station ranks #315 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in College Station 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.