Restaurants in Tyler, TX

The guide lists 642 places in Tyler: 468 restaurants, 81 quick-service spots, 54 cafes and 33 bars. Mexican leads the category counts at 72 listings, with coffee shops and cafes at 57, bakeries and donuts at 44 and pizza at 41. Sandwiches and delis reach 29.

Tyler's 57.2 places per ten thousand residents run well above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide.

339 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (16), Starbucks (14), Whataburger (11) and McDonald's (10).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Tyler ranks #299 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Tyler 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.