Restaurants in Fort Lauderdale, FL

The Fort Lauderdale listings include 1,547 places, among them 1,139 restaurants, 69 quick service spots, 124 cafes and 207 bars. Bars top the category list at 202, just ahead of coffee shops and cafes at 129. Pizza follows at 91, with American at 89 and Italian at 76.

Of the listings here, 77 percent are independent. At 81.1 places per ten thousand residents, the density is far above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

1,193 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (24), Subway (19), McDonald's (14) and Dunkin' (13).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Fort Lauderdale ranks #45 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Fort Lauderdale 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.