Restaurants in Richmond, VA

Richmond's guide holds 1,393 places, and 1,025 are restaurants. The rest include 77 quick service spots, 107 cafes and 169 bars. Bars (138), coffee shops and cafes (116) and American (85) are the top categories among the places listed in this guide.

Richmond reaches 59.6 places per ten thousand residents, well above the 41.8 median across all cities.

1,122 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (21), Subway (16), McDonald's (11) and Krispy Krunchy Chicken (8).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Richmond ranks #26 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Richmond 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.