Restaurants in New Haven, CT

In New Haven, the guide includes 738 places: 580 restaurants, 40 quick service spots, 58 cafes and 51 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead at 65, with pizza at 62, bars at 53 and sandwiches and delis at 50. Mexican restaurants reach 38.

Independent-owned places are 85 percent of listings here. At 53.6 places per ten thousand residents, New Haven is well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

628 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (16), Subway (9), Dunkin' Donuts (6) and McDonald's (5).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, New Haven ranks #8 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in New Haven 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.