Restaurants in Providence, RI

Listed in this guide are 1,150 places in Providence, including 817 restaurants, 49 quick service spots, 107 cafes and 161 bars. Bars lead the category counts at 154, with coffee shops and cafes at 116 and pizza at 77. Bakeries and donuts follow at 72.

Independent operators hold 83 percent of listings here. With 59.1 places per ten thousand residents, Providence is well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

952 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (24), Subway (11), Starbucks (9) and Dunkin' Donuts (8).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Providence ranks #17 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Providence 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.