Restaurants in Rochester, MN

Restaurants account for 358 of the 507 places listed for Rochester, alongside 44 quick service spots, 56 cafes and 44 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead at 57, followed by bars at 42, pizza at 41 and Mexican at 39. Sandwiches and delis reach 30, and American places add 29.

Listings are 63 percent independent. At 41.0 places per ten thousand residents, Rochester sits just below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

319 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Caribou Coffee (14), Starbucks (11), Subway (10) and McDonald's (7).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Rochester ranks #182 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Rochester 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.