Restaurants in Grand Rapids, MI

Grand Rapids lists 944 places in this guide, with 630 restaurants among them. Quick service accounts for 55, cafes for 101 and bars for 150. Bars (133), coffee shops and cafes (105) and pizza (65) are the top categories among the listed places.

Grand Rapids' 47.2 places per ten thousand residents sit above the 41.8 median across all cities.

709 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (16), Starbucks (14), Jimmy John's (6) and Burger King (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Grand Rapids ranks #55 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Grand Rapids 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.