Restaurants in Memphis, TN

Memphis is home to 610,919 people and 2,750 places listed in this guide, including 2,013 restaurants, 325 quick service spots, 135 cafes and 261 bars. The biggest categories are Bars with 239 listings, Mexican with 167 and American with 159.

Memphis records 45.0 listed places per 10,000 residents, above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That places the city on the denser side of the group, based on the listings found here.

1,844 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (45), Starbucks (44), McDonald's (38) and Wendy's (32).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Memphis ranks #122 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Memphis 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.