Restaurants in St. Paul, MN

St. Paul lists 1,069 places in this guide, with 737 restaurants among them. Quick service accounts for 63, cafes for 128 and bars for 131. Coffee shops and cafes (135), bars (107) and pizza (59) are the top categories in the listings.

Under the 41.8 median across all cities, St. Paul's density reaches only 34.8 places per ten thousand residents.

854 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (18), Starbucks (13), Caribou Coffee (11) and Jimmy John's (9).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, St. Paul ranks #32 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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