Restaurants in Elizabeth, NJ

In Elizabeth, the guide includes 556 places: 460 restaurants, 32 quick service spots, 28 cafes and 33 bars. Latin American restaurants lead the category counts at 118, followed by bakeries and donuts at 47, pizza at 36 and American at 35. Bars reach 34.

Listings here are 80 percent independent. At 39.6 places per ten thousand residents, Elizabeth sits just below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

447 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (14), Burger King (5), Subway (5) and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (4).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Elizabeth ranks #28 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Elizabeth 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.