Restaurants in Las Cruces, NM

Las Cruces has 446 places listed in this guide. Of those, 316 are restaurants, 58 are quick-service spots, 41 are cafes and 26 are bars. Mexican is the largest category at 71 listings, ahead of coffee shops and cafes at 42, pizza at 33 and bakeries and donuts at 23.

Listings in Las Cruces work out to 38.1 places per ten thousand residents, under the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide.

255 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (15), Starbucks (8), McDonald's (8) and Domino's Pizza (7).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Las Cruces ranks #260 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Las Cruces 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.