Restaurants in Joliet, IL

Here, 471 places are listed in Joliet: 329 restaurants, 48 quick service spots, 26 cafes and 65 bars. Bars are the top category at 63, followed by Mexican restaurants at 54, pizza at 33 and desserts and ice cream at 27. Coffee shops and cafes reach 26.

Of the listings, 62 percent are independent. At 31.0 places per ten thousand residents, the city sits below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

293 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (16), Subway (9), Starbucks (8) and McDonald's (7).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Joliet ranks #192 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Joliet 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.