Restaurants in New York, NY

Of the 44,011 places listed in this guide, 33,697 are restaurants. Quick service spots number 1,552, cafes 3,774 and bars 4,501. Bars (4,570), coffee shops and cafes (3,915) and bakeries and donuts (2,735) are the three largest categories, and these counts cover only the places in this guide.

Compared with the 41.8 median across all cities, New York posts 51.9 places per ten thousand residents.

37,112 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (650), Starbucks (408), Subway (333) and McDonald's (247).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, New York ranks #11 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in New York 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.