Restaurants in Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis, home to 891,484 people, has 3,726 places listed in this guide, including 2,670 restaurants, 381 quick service spots, 240 cafes and 407 bars. Bars head the category counts at 372, trailed by Pizza at 311 and Mexican at 307.

Indianapolis matches the median of 41.8 listed places per 10,000 residents across all cities in this guide. The figure is drawn from the listings in this guide, not from every venue in the city.

2,431 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (75), Starbucks (61), McDonald's (48) and Taco Bell (38).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Indianapolis ranks #144 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Indianapolis 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.