Restaurants in Durham, NC

Durham's guide holds 1,329 places, and 965 are restaurants. Quick service spots number 125, cafes 107 and bars 124. Coffee shops and cafes (113), bars (110) and Mexican (85) lead the category counts among the listings, which cover only the places in this guide.

With a density of 44.0 places per ten thousand residents, Durham sits above the 41.8 median across all cities.

894 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (23), Subway (23), McDonald's (14) and Chick-fil-A (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Durham ranks #119 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Durham 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.