Restaurants in Gainesville, FL

Restaurants account for 611 of the 843 places listed for Gainesville, alongside 70 quick service spots, 77 cafes and 76 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead at 78, just ahead of bars at 71. Pizza follows at 54, with sandwiches and delis at 48 and bakeries and donuts at 45.

Independent-owned places are 64 percent of listings here, and the 56.7 places per ten thousand residents is well above the 41.8 median across all cities.

540 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (16), Subway (15), McDonald's (9) and Dunkin' (8).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Gainesville ranks #161 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Gainesville 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.