Restaurants in Portsmouth, VA

Portsmouth's 281 listed places break into 194 restaurants, 38 quick-service spots, 21 cafes and 27 bars. Pizza leads the category counts at 24, followed by bars at 23, coffee shops and cafes at 21, and Chinese and seafood tied at 18 each.

Portsmouth sits below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide, with 29.1 places per ten thousand residents.

187 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (8), Starbucks (7), Hardee's (4) and KFC (4).

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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.