Restaurants in Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia's listings total 7,750 places, and 5,754 of them are restaurants. Bars number 927 and cafes 636, with quick service spots at 342. Bars (947) come first in the category counts, followed by pizza (692) and coffee shops and cafes (657) among the places in this guide.

Philadelphia's 49.2 places per ten thousand residents sit above the 41.8 median across all cities.

6,416 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (130), Starbucks (74), McDonald's (46) and Subway (38).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Philadelphia ranks #16 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Philadelphia 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.