Restaurants in Rochester, NY

Rochester's guide holds 1,015 places, and 687 are restaurants. The rest include 49 quick service spots, 97 cafes and 175 bars. Bars (155), coffee shops and cafes (103) and pizza (71) are the top categories among the places listed in this guide, which is a partial view.

Rochester's 49.0 places per ten thousand residents sit above the 41.8 median across all cities.

881 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (13), Subway (8), McDonald's (7) and Starbucks (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Rochester ranks #3 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.