Restaurants in Springfield, IL

The 642 places listed in Springfield include 434 restaurants, 61 quick-service spots, 56 cafes and 86 bars. Bars are the largest category at 80 listings, with coffee shops and cafes at 59, pizza at 55 and sandwiches and delis at 42. American reaches 38.

Springfield sits well above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide, at 56.8 places per ten thousand residents.

403 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (15), McDonald's (13), Starbucks (9) and Jimmy John's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Springfield ranks #184 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Springfield 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.