Restaurants in Mesquite, TX

In Mesquite, the guide includes 463 places: 351 restaurants, 72 quick service spots, 21 cafes and 16 bars. Mexican restaurants lead the categories at 56, with bakeries and donuts at 38, pizza at 37 and sandwiches and delis at 25. Coffee shops and cafes reach 21.

Independent-owned places are 48 percent of listings. At 30.8 places per ten thousand residents, Mesquite sits below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

222 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (12), McDonald's (8), Sonic Drive-In (7) and Starbucks (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Mesquite ranks #323 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Mesquite 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.