Restaurants in Jersey City, NJ

Jersey City lists 1,264 places in this guide, and 975 are restaurants. The count includes 67 quick service spots, 116 cafes and 91 bars. Coffee shops and cafes (120), bars (94) and pizza (89) are the top categories among the places listed here.

Jersey City's density of 41.7 places per ten thousand residents falls a little under the 41.8 median across all cities.

1,023 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (24), Subway (13), McDonald's (10) and Starbucks (9).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Jersey City ranks #24 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Jersey City 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.