Restaurants in Tempe, AZ

Here, 1,362 places are listed in Tempe: 960 restaurants, 101 quick service spots, 141 cafes and 136 bars. Coffee shops and cafes are the leading category at 150, followed by bars at 127 and Mexican restaurants at 110. Sandwiches and delis reach 81.

Independent-owned places are 64 percent of listings here. The 71.6 places per ten thousand residents sits well above the 41.8 median across all cities.

877 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (38), Subway (16), McDonald's (13) and Taco Bell (10).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Tempe ranks #156 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Tempe 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.