Restaurants in Hoover, AL

Hoover lists 464 places in this guide, with 377 restaurants, 36 quick-service spots, 27 cafes and 19 bars. Pizza is the top category at 39, followed by Mexican at 34, coffee shops and cafes at 28, and desserts and ice cream and sandwiches and delis tied at 26 each.

Hoover's 49.9 places per ten thousand residents run above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. Those entries make a useful reference for the wider Alabama picture.

232 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (9), Chick-fil-A (6), Subway (6) and Taco Bell (5).

Food in Hoover 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.