Restaurants in Dayton, OH

Listed in this guide are 536 places in Dayton, including 346 restaurants, 46 quick service spots, 37 cafes and 104 bars. Bars are the clear leader at 100, followed by pizza at 41, coffee shops and cafes at 38 and American restaurants at 30. Sandwiches and delis reach 27.

Independent places account for 74 percent of listings here. At 39.3 places per ten thousand residents, Dayton is below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

399 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (8), McDonald's (7), Domino's Pizza (6) and Starbucks (5).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Dayton ranks #60 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Dayton 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.