Browse restaurants by cuisine & type

272 categories in 30 groups – from diners and taquerias to sushi bars, bakeries and breweries. Pick a category to see every matching place in the US, or narrow it down by state and city.

Burgers & Fast Food

43,825 places

Burger joints and fast-food restaurants are built for speed: order at a counter, kiosk, app or drive-through and expect your food in minutes. The category ranges from national chains with identical menus everywhere to independent burger stands, regional favorites with cult followings and modern “better burger” shops that grind their own beef.

Cafes & Coffee

36,704 places

Coffee shops and cafes run from drive-through espresso stands and national chains to independent roasters and neighborhood cafes with pastries, light breakfast and lunch. Many double as workspaces with Wi-Fi and outlets, while others focus on quick takeaway service.

Mexican & Tex-Mex

30,616 places

Mexican food is one of the most widely loved cuisines in the US, and it ranges from the taqueria with a handful of tables and a salsa bar to sit-down restaurants focused on a single region such as Oaxaca, Jalisco, Puebla or the Yucatán. Tex-Mex – with its combination plates, yellow cheese, fajitas and chili con carne – is its own distinct tradition born in Texas.

Pizza

27,068 places

Pizza is one of America’s most popular meals and comes in strongly regional styles: thin, foldable New York slices; deep-dish and tavern-style thin crust in Chicago; square, crispy-edged Detroit pies; coal-fired New Haven “apizza”; and Neapolitan pies baked in a wood-fired oven in about 90 seconds. Most pizzerias offer dine-in, takeout and delivery, and many sell by the slice.

Bakeries & Desserts

26,062 places

This group brings together bakeries, donut shops, ice cream parlors, frozen yogurt shops, dessert cafes, candy stores and specialty sweet shops. Bakeries usually open early and sell their best items before noon, while ice cream and dessert shops are busiest in the evening and on warm weekends.

Sandwiches & Delis

25,454 places

Delis and sandwich shops are a lunch institution: Jewish-style delis with pastrami and corned beef piled high, Italian delis with hoagies and imported cold cuts, sub shops, Philadelphia cheesesteak stands and modern sandwich counters. Many also sell prepared salads, soups and grocery items.

Restaurants

22,343 places

General restaurants are places that do not fit neatly into a single cuisine: family restaurants, grills, bistros, eclectic kitchens and multi-cuisine menus. They are often local favorites that serve a bit of everything, from breakfast plates to steaks and seafood.

American

19,825 places

American restaurants cover a lot of ground: the neighborhood diner with a counter and bottomless coffee, the family restaurant with a long laminated menu, the gastropub doing elevated comfort food, and the “New American” kitchen that builds a short seasonal menu around local farms. What ties them together is a menu built on familiar staples – burgers, sandwiches, salads, steaks, fried chicken and pasta – plus regional favorites that change as you cross the country.

Chicken & Wings

15,104 places

Chicken restaurants include fried chicken chains, Southern-style chicken shacks, rotisserie and Peruvian pollo a la brasa spots, Korean fried chicken and dedicated wing joints. Nashville hot chicken – fried, then coated in cayenne paste – has spread nationwide over the past decade.

Bars & Pubs

15,085 places

Bars and pubs cover everything from neighborhood dives and sports bars to cocktail lounges, wine bars, brewpubs and taprooms. Many serve food – burgers, wings, pub fare or a full kitchen – while others offer little beyond snacks or host food trucks.

Chinese

10,970 places

Chinese restaurants in the US range from American-Chinese takeout counters – General Tso’s chicken, lo mein, egg rolls – to restaurants specializing in regional Chinese cooking: fiery Sichuan, Cantonese dim sum and roast meats, Hunan, Shanghainese soup dumplings, Taiwanese beef noodle soup and Dongbei dumplings.

Japanese & Sushi

8,190 places

Japanese restaurants include sushi bars, ramen shops, izakayas (casual drinking spots with small plates), teppanyaki grills where chefs cook at the table, and specialists in tempura, udon, katsu or yakitori. Many sushi restaurants also offer cooked dishes and bento boxes, so there is something for diners who do not eat raw fish.

Italian

7,256 places

Italian restaurants in the US span two related traditions: Italian-American cooking – red sauce, chicken parmigiana, baked ziti and generous portions that grew out of immigrant neighborhoods – and regional Italian cooking that follows the menus of Rome, Tuscany, Sicily or Emilia-Romagna more closely, often with fresh pasta made in house.

Seafood

5,098 places

Seafood restaurants range from fish shacks and oyster bars to upscale dining rooms and Cajun boil houses. What is on the menu depends heavily on the region: lobster rolls and clam chowder in New England, crab cakes in Maryland, shrimp and grits and fried catfish in the South, crawfish in Louisiana and salmon and Dungeness crab in the Pacific Northwest.

Mediterranean & Middle Eastern

4,512 places

Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurants serve the cooking of Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Persia, Morocco and their neighbors. Expect grilled meats and kebabs, falafel, hummus and other dips, fresh salads, rice dishes and plenty of bread – often baked in house.

Asian & Pacific

4,209 places

This group covers pan-Asian and fusion restaurants as well as cuisines with fewer dedicated restaurants in the US, such as Filipino, Malaysian, Indonesian, Burmese, Hawaiian, Cambodian, Laotian and Mongolian. Poke bars, noodle houses and Asian fusion spots that mix several traditions also fall here.

Thai

3,507 places

Thai restaurants are among the most common sit-down restaurants in American towns of every size. Menus balance sweet, sour, salty and spicy flavors and are built around curries, stir-fries, noodle dishes, soups and salads, served with jasmine or sticky rice.

Breakfast & Brunch

3,497 places

Breakfast and brunch spots range from classic diners and pancake houses to modern brunch cafes with creative menus, bottomless mimosas and long weekend waits. Most open early and close by mid-afternoon, which is the opposite rhythm to most restaurants.

Barbecue

3,335 places

American barbecue means meat cooked low and slow over wood smoke, and every region has its own rules. Central Texas is about beef brisket with a simple salt-and-pepper rub; Kansas City does a bit of everything with a thick sweet sauce; Memphis is known for ribs, wet or dry; and the Carolinas are pork country, with vinegar or mustard sauces.

Indian & South Asian

3,294 places

Indian and South Asian restaurants serve curries, tandoori dishes, breads and rice from across the subcontinent, plus Nepali, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan specialties. North Indian dishes – butter chicken, tikka masala, naan – are the most familiar, while South Indian restaurants focus on dosas, idli and vegetarian thalis.

Latin American & Caribbean

3,076 places

Latin American and Caribbean restaurants bring together dozens of national cuisines: Cuban sandwiches and ropa vieja, Puerto Rican mofongo, Peruvian ceviche and lomo saltado, Colombian and Venezuelan arepas, Salvadoran pupusas, Brazilian churrasco, Jamaican jerk and Haitian griot. Many are family-run and closely tied to the community around them.

Vietnamese

2,475 places

Vietnamese restaurants are best known for pho – a fragrant beef or chicken noodle soup – and banh mi sandwiches on light, crackly baguettes. Menus also feature vermicelli bowls (bun), broken-rice plates (com tam), fresh spring rolls and a strong coffee sweetened with condensed milk.

Steakhouses

2,333 places

Steakhouses run from classic white-tablecloth chophouses with dry-aged prime beef to casual family steak chains and Western-style roadhouses with peanuts on the floor. The steak is the star, and sides – creamed spinach, baked potatoes, mac and cheese – are often ordered separately and shared.

European

1,916 places

This group covers French bistros, German beer halls, Spanish tapas bars, Irish and British pubs serving food, and Eastern European kitchens from Poland, Ukraine, Russia and the Balkans. Many are family-run restaurants that keep alive the cooking of a particular immigrant community.

Korean

1,727 places

Korean restaurants range from tabletop barbecue, where you grill marinated meats yourself, to soup and stew houses, fried chicken shops and casual spots serving bibimbap and noodles. Almost every meal comes with banchan – small complimentary side dishes such as kimchi, pickled vegetables and seasoned greens that are usually refilled on request.

Vegetarian & Vegan

719 places

Vegetarian and vegan restaurants build their whole menu around plants, from health-focused cafes with grain bowls and smoothies to comfort-food spots serving plant-based burgers, mac and cheese and desserts. Many also cater for gluten-free and other dietary needs.

African

482 places

African restaurants in the US are most often Ethiopian and Eritrean, along with West African (Nigerian, Ghanaian, Senegalese), Somali and North African kitchens. Many serve a close-knit community and are among the most welcoming places to eat in a city.

Food Trucks & Takeout

293 places

Food trucks, takeout counters and kiosks focus on quick, affordable food to go. Food trucks may move between locations or park at food truck lots, breweries and events, while takeout restaurants usually have few or no tables.

Buffets

155 places

Buffets let you pay a fixed price and help yourself to as much as you like. The most common types are Chinese and pan-Asian buffets, pizza buffets, Indian lunch buffets, Brazilian steakhouses (rodizio) where servers bring meat to the table, and hotel and casino buffets with stations for many cuisines.

Markets & Groceries

128 places

This group includes specialty food markets, international grocers, delicatessen counters, butcher shops, cheese shops and convenience stores that sell prepared food. Many international markets have hot food counters that are among the most authentic – and affordable – places to eat in town.