Restaurants in Hartford, CT

This guide shows 608 places in Hartford, with 457 restaurants, 31 quick service spots, 53 cafes and 66 bars. Bars top the categories at 61, with coffee shops and cafes at 54, pizza at 44 and Latin American restaurants at 39. Sandwiches and delis reach 34.

Listings are 81 percent independent. At 49.8 places per ten thousand residents, Hartford is above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

490 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (19), Subway (14), Starbucks (8) and McDonald's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Hartford ranks #25 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Hartford 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.