Restaurants in Columbus, GA

Columbus, Georgia, lists 852 places in this guide, and 643 are restaurants. Quick service accounts for 106, cafes for 37 and bars for 62. Pizza (69), American (64) and bars (58) are the three largest categories among the places listed.

Columbus's 42.2 places per ten thousand residents sit just above the 41.8 median across all cities.

475 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (18), Hunt Brothers Pizza (16), Taco Bell (11) and McDonald's (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Columbus ranks #278 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.