Restaurants in Mesa, AZ

Mesa lists 1,777 places, and 1,299 are restaurants. The count adds 211 quick service spots, 145 cafes and 107 bars. Mexican (197) and pizza (151) lead the categories, with coffee shops and cafes at 149 among the places in this guide.

Mesa's 34.4 places per ten thousand residents fall short of the 41.8 median across all cities.

970 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (57), Subway (35), McDonald's (29) and Taco Bell (19).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Mesa ranks #288 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Mesa 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.