Restaurants in Waco, TX

In Waco, the guide includes 695 places: 497 restaurants, 73 quick service spots, 50 cafes and 68 bars. Mexican restaurants are the leading category at 82, ahead of bars at 63, coffee shops and cafes at 54 and bakeries and donuts at 41. Pizza follows at 36.

Of the listings, 60 percent are independent, and the 47.4 places per ten thousand residents sits above the 41.8 median across all cities.

414 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (12), Starbucks (10), Shipley Do-Nuts (8) and McDonald's (7).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Waco ranks #226 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Waco 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.