Restaurants in Washington, DC

Washington, DC, has 4,918 places in this guide. Restaurants make up 3,564 of them, with 198 quick service spots, 495 cafes and 616 bars alongside. The top three categories are bars (630), coffee shops and cafes (516) and American (319) among the listed places.

With 702,250 residents, the district records 70.0 places per ten thousand residents, well above the 41.8 median across all cities.

3,837 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (96), Subway (67), McDonald's (27) and Dunkin' (25).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Washington ranks #39 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Washington 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.