Restaurants in Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix has 5,841 places in this guide, and restaurants make up 4,251 of them. Quick service spots total 563, cafes 476 and bars 513. Mexican (727) tops the category counts, with coffee shops and cafes (490) and bars (490) tied for second in the listings.

On density, Phoenix comes in at 34.9 places per ten thousand residents, under the 41.8 median across all cities.

3,727 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (152), Subway (96), McDonald's (75) and Jack in the Box (54).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Phoenix ranks #170 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Phoenix 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.