Restaurants in Lafayette, LA

Among the 856 places listed for Lafayette are 630 restaurants, 87 quick service spots, 48 cafes and 81 bars. Bars lead the categories at 80, followed by Southern and soul food at 64, sandwiches and delis at 56 and coffee shops and cafes at 51. Bakeries and donuts and Mexican restaurants each reach 41.

Independent operators hold 63 percent of listings. At 70.0 places per ten thousand residents, Lafayette is well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

541 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (20), McDonald's (11), Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (10) and Burger King (10).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Lafayette ranks #179 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Lafayette 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.