Restaurants in Surprise, AZ

Surprise, a city of 167,564 people, has 380 places listed in this guide, with 243 restaurants, 63 quick service spots, 51 cafes and 20 bars. Coffee shops and cafes top the category counts at 51, followed by Pizza at 38 and Mexican at 32 among the listings.

Surprise has 22.7 listed places per 10,000 residents, well below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That reflects the listings in this guide and does not count every business in the city.

142 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (21), McDonald's (9), Subway (7) and Taco Bell (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Surprise ranks #331 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Surprise 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.