Restaurants in Glendale, AZ

Glendale has 858 places in this guide, 615 of them restaurants. The count includes 98 quick service spots, 60 cafes and 73 bars. Mexican (112) leads the categories, with pizza and bars tied at 72 each among the listings, all from the places in this guide.

Glendale's density of 33.2 places per ten thousand residents falls below the 41.8 median across all cities.

480 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (17), Subway (17), McDonald's (12) and Burger King (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Glendale ranks #275 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Glendale 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.