Restaurants in Fayetteville, NC

Fayetteville has 957 places in this guide, 684 of them restaurants. Quick service accounts for 131, cafes for 56 and bars for 74. Sandwiches and delis (72) and bars (72) tie for the top spot, with coffee shops and cafes at 59 among the listings.

Fayetteville's 45.7 places per ten thousand residents sit above the 41.8 median across all cities.

529 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (21), Burger King (15), McDonald's (14) and Starbucks (14).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Fayetteville ranks #282 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.