Restaurants in Columbus, OH

Columbus lists 4,018 places, and 2,783 of them are restaurants. Other listings include 367 quick service spots, 322 cafes and 521 bars. Bars (486) and pizza (364) lead the category counts, with coffee shops and cafes at 330 among the places in this guide.

A density of 43.1 places per ten thousand residents puts Columbus a touch above the 41.8 median across all cities.

2,669 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (74), Starbucks (68), Wendy's (48) and McDonald's (45).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Columbus ranks #133 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Columbus 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.