Restaurants in Federal Way, WA

Federal Way lists 352 places in this guide, including 261 restaurants, 31 quick-service spots, 36 cafes and 15 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead at 36, followed by Mexican at 28, Korean at 24, Japanese at 23 and pizza at 22.

Federal Way sits a little under the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide, with 35.1 places per ten thousand residents.

214 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (12), Subway (8), McDonald's (4) and Taco Bell (3).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Federal Way ranks #214 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Federal Way 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.