Restaurants in Tucson, AZ

Tucson has 2,385 listed places, including 1,648 restaurants. The rest add 270 quick service spots, 212 cafes and 227 bars. Mexican (316) leads the categories, followed by coffee shops and cafes (218) and bars (203) among the places in this guide.

Tucson comes in at 43.0 places per ten thousand residents, just above the 41.8 median across all cities.

1,487 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (61), Subway (40), McDonald's (30) and Jack in the Box (21).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Tucson ranks #190 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Tucson 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.