Restaurants in Kansas City, KS

With 503 places listed in Kansas City, the guide counts 377 restaurants, 59 quick service spots, 23 cafes and 43 bars. Mexican restaurants are the largest category at 89, followed by bars at 40, pizza at 34 and BBQ at 23. Bakeries and donuts reach 20.

Independent-owned places are 67 percent of listings. At 32.1 places per ten thousand residents, the city sits below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

338 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (13), McDonald's (8), Krispy Krunchy Chicken (8) and Hunt Brothers Pizza (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Kansas City ranks #121 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Kansas 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.