Restaurants in Jackson, MS

The Jackson listings include 668 places, among them 448 restaurants, 92 quick service spots, 39 cafes and 87 bars. Bars top the categories at 88, with coffee shops and cafes at 40, sandwiches and delis at 36 and seafood at 33. American restaurants and chicken and wings add 33 and 28.

Of all listings, 65 percent are independent. At 47.2 places per ten thousand residents, Jackson is above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

436 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (24), Krispy Krunchy Chicken (14), McDonald's (11) and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (10).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Jackson ranks #142 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.