Restaurants in Knoxville, TN

In Knoxville, the guide includes 1,428 places: 1,003 restaurants, 157 quick service spots, 104 cafes and 152 bars. Bars are the most common category at 137, with pizza at 112 and coffee shops and cafes at 109. Sandwiches and delis reach 104.

Of the listings here, 57 percent are independent. At 71.9 places per ten thousand residents, Knoxville sits well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

812 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (28), Subway (26), McDonald's (18) and Taco Bell (17).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Knoxville ranks #265 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Knoxville by cuisine

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1,289 of the 1,428 places here (90%) list a website. When a guest searches for food in Knoxville and lands on a delivery app instead of your site, the app takes a commission on the order and shows them your competitors. Servestack gives you your own ordering site with zero commission, POS sync and loyalty, and Studio makes the menus, flyers and posts to promote it. See what you would keep with the commission savings calculator, or browse the restaurant marketing guides.

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.