Restaurants in Salem, OR

Salem, home to 180,406 people, has 760 places listed in this guide, including 476 restaurants, 79 quick service spots, 96 cafes and 101 bars. Coffee shops and cafes top the category list at 97, ahead of Bars at 86 and Mexican at 76 among the listings.

With 42.1 listed places per 10,000 residents, Salem sits above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. The number is built from the places in this guide, not every business in the city.

534 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (16), Subway (16), McDonald's (11) and Dutch Bros. Coffee (9).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Salem ranks #93 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Salem 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.