Restaurants in Syracuse, NY

This guide shows 673 places in Syracuse, with 466 restaurants, 38 quick service spots, 67 cafes and 90 bars. Bars are the top category at 82, followed by coffee shops and cafes at 71, pizza at 52 and sandwiches and delis at 40. Bakeries and donuts reach 38.

Independent-owned places are 79 percent of listings here. At 46.1 places per ten thousand residents, Syracuse sits above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

534 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (18), Subway (9), Burger King (8) and Starbucks (7).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Syracuse ranks #35 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Syracuse 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.