Restaurants in Paterson, NJ

Restaurants account for 470 of the 565 places listed for Paterson, alongside 36 quick service spots, 15 cafes and 44 bars. Latin American restaurants lead at 105, followed by bakeries and donuts at 47 and bars at 44. Mediterranean places add 38, and American places reach 34.

Of the listings here, 87 percent are independent. At 35.2 places per ten thousand residents, Paterson sits below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

494 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (10), McDonald's (6), Burger King (4) and Subway (3).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Paterson ranks #2 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Paterson 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.