Restaurants in Lawrence, KS

Lawrence has 471 places listed in this guide, made up of 308 restaurants, 41 quick-service spots, 48 cafes and 67 bars. Bars are the largest category at 62, followed by coffee shops and cafes at 54, pizza at 42 and Mexican at 37. Sandwiches and delis reach 25.

Lawrence is above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide, with 48.4 places per ten thousand residents.

300 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (10), Scooter's Coffee (8), Subway (5) and Burger King (4).

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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.