Restaurants in Lincoln, NE

Lincoln lists 1,170 places in this guide, and 761 are restaurants. Quick service accounts for 117, cafes for 134 and bars for 150. Coffee shops and cafes (139), bars (138) and pizza (94) are the three largest categories among the places listed.

Lincoln's 38.9 places per ten thousand residents fall under the 41.8 median across all cities.

688 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Scooter's Coffee (40), Subway (26), Casey's (22) and Starbucks (15).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Lincoln ranks #241 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.