Restaurants in Rockford, IL

Rockford, with 147,486 residents, has 572 places listed in this guide, made up of 402 restaurants, 62 quick service spots, 33 cafes and 73 bars. Bars lead the category counts at 71, followed by Pizza at 44 and Mexican at 40 among the listings.

Rockford's residents see 38.8 listed places per 10,000, which is below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That figure is built from the listings here, not a full count of every venue in town.

390 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (20), McDonald's (14), Starbucks (8) and Burger King (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Rockford ranks #112 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.