Restaurants in Fayetteville, AR

Fayetteville lists 572 places in this guide, with 392 restaurants, 55 quick-service spots, 53 cafes and 69 bars. Bars are the largest category at 60, closely trailed by coffee shops and cafes at 54, Mexican at 45 and pizza at 41. Bakeries and donuts reach 31.

Fayetteville sits well above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide, at 55.5 places per ten thousand residents.

361 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (9), Starbucks (7), Taco Bell (7) and McDonald's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Fayetteville ranks #181 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Fayetteville 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.