Restaurants in Sterling Heights, MI

Here, 451 places are listed in Sterling Heights: 353 restaurants, 34 quick service spots, 32 cafes and 26 bars. Pizza leads at 41, with sandwiches and delis at 39, Mediterranean at 36 and coffee shops and cafes at 33. Bakeries and donuts reach 30.

Listings are 60 percent independent. At 33.6 places per ten thousand residents, Sterling Heights sits below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

271 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (14), McDonald's (6), Starbucks (5) and Burger King (5).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Sterling Heights ranks #221 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Sterling Heights 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.