Restaurants in McAllen, TX

McAllen has 1,123 places in this guide, with 822 restaurants, 99 quick service spots, 68 cafes and 119 bars. Mexican restaurants lead at 186, with bars at 122, coffee shops and cafes at 68 and desserts and ice cream at 56. Bakeries and donuts follow at 50.

Of all listings, 65 percent are independent. At 75.5 places per ten thousand residents, McAllen is well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

735 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Laredo Taco Company (23), Subway (20), Starbucks (13) and McDonald's (8).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, McAllen ranks #140 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in McAllen 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.