Restaurants in Tacoma, WA

Tacoma's 228,202 residents are paired with 969 listed places in this guide, including 618 restaurants, 62 quick service spots, 137 cafes and 132 bars. Coffee shops and cafes top the category counts at 144, with Bars at 112 and Mexican at 61 close behind in the listings.

With 42.5 listed places per 10,000 residents, Tacoma sits just above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That figure describes the listings in this guide, not a census of the city's venues.

705 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (29), Subway (22), Jack in the Box (7) and McDonald's (7).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Tacoma ranks #70 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.