Restaurants in Springfield, MO

Restaurants account for 806 of the 1,137 places listed for Springfield, alongside 110 quick service spots, 107 cafes and 107 bars. Coffee shops and cafes top the category list at 109, with bars at 99, pizza at 84 and Mexican at 81. Sandwiches and delis follow at 77.

Independent-owned places are 58 percent of listings. The 66.6 places per ten thousand residents is well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

658 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (24), Subway (24), McDonald's (17) and Taco Bell (12).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Springfield ranks #251 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.