Restaurants in Topeka, KS

Among the 542 places listed for Topeka are 380 restaurants, 66 quick service spots, 46 cafes and 49 bars. Mexican restaurants lead at 67, with pizza at 49, coffee shops and cafes at 47 and bars at 44. Sandwiches and delis reach 36.

Independent places make up 58 percent of listings here. At 43.2 places per ten thousand residents, Topeka sits just above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

313 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (11), McDonald's (8), Pizza Hut (8) and Scooter's Coffee (8).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Topeka ranks #254 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Topeka 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.