Restaurants in Roanoke, VA

Roanoke, with 97,912 residents, has 472 places listed in this guide: 343 restaurants, 53 quick service spots, 31 cafes and 45 bars. Bars rank first among the categories at 34, followed by Coffee shops and cafes at 31 and Pizza at 30 in the listings.

With 48.2 listed places per 10,000 residents, Roanoke sits above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. The count reflects the listings in this guide rather than a census of local businesses.

316 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (9), Subway (9), Hardee's (7) and Domino's Pizza (5).

Food in Roanoke 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.