Restaurants in Newark, NJ

Newark, with 317,303 residents, has 1,227 places listed in this guide: 930 restaurants, 75 quick service spots, 88 cafes and 132 bars. Bars top the category counts at 132, followed by Coffee shops and cafes at 90 and Bakeries and donuts at 87.

Newark records 38.7 listed places per 10,000 residents, which falls below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. The figure reflects the listings here, not a full inventory of every venue in the city.

999 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (37), Starbucks (13), Subway (12) and McDonald's (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Newark ranks #22 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.