Restaurants in Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee lists 2,452 places, with 1,516 of them restaurants. The count includes 148 quick service spots, 187 cafes and 570 bars. Bars (553), coffee shops and cafes (194) and Mexican (186) lead the category counts among the places in this guide.

Milwaukee's density of 43.5 places per ten thousand residents runs above the 41.8 median across all cities.

1,953 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (36), McDonald's (30), Starbucks (25) and Cousins Subs (18).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Milwaukee ranks #34 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Milwaukee 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.