Restaurants in Worcester, MA

Worcester's guide lists 848 places, and 633 are restaurants. The list includes 38 quick service spots, 62 cafes and 110 bars. Pizza (107), bars (104) and bakeries and donuts (75) are the top three categories among the places in this guide.

Worcester's density of 40.1 places per ten thousand residents falls under the 41.8 median across all cities.

679 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Dunkin' (28), Subway (16), McDonald's (7) and Starbucks (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Worcester ranks #31 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Worcester 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.