How to get restaurant & café data for any city (free, no API key)
Need every restaurant, café and fast-food place in a city — with the cuisine, opening hours, a clean address and contact details? This pulls exactly that from OpenStreetMap, the open map of the world. You name an area, run the tool, and get a structured table of places back — no Google Maps scraping, no API key, no anti-bot battles.
It's built for real food-and-location work: restaurant discovery and "places to eat near me" apps, market and catchment analysis, lead generation for restaurant suppliers and delivery platforms, cuisine-mix and density studies, and competitive mapping for a new location.
What you get
Every place row can include:
- name — the venue name
- category — restaurant, cafe, fast_food, bar, pub (whichever you ask for)
- cuisine — the cuisine tag(s) where mapped (e.g.
italian,coffee_shop,burger) - opening_hours — when it's open, where mapped
- website and phone — contact details where mapped
- brand — the chain it belongs to, for chains (e.g. Starbucks, McDonald's)
- wheelchair — accessibility tag
Every row also includes full_address, map_url, latitude, longitude, the address parts (street, housenumber, city, postcode, state, country), operator, source_url and all_tags. Fields are honest-null — anything OpenStreetMap hasn't mapped comes back blank rather than guessed.
How to get it (no API key)
Run the dataquarry OpenStreetMap Places Scraper on Apify and ask for the food categories. You don't need a Google Maps key or a delivery-app login — just give it an area. Here's the example input:
{"area":"Austin, TX","categories":["restaurant","cafe","fast_food"]}
You can also search by radius around a point, by bounding box, or add a name filter to target a single brand (e.g. every Starbucks in a city).
The columns look like this (illustrative example showing the format — not real records):
| name | category | cuisine | opening_hours | website | full_address |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corner Bistro | restaurant | italian | Mo-Su 11:00-22:00 | https://… | Main Street 100, 78701 Austin, US |
| Daily Grind Coffee | cafe | coffee_shop | Mo-Fr 07:00-18:00 | 2nd Street 250, 78701 Austin, US |
Run the OpenStreetMap Places Scraper on Apify →
Why OpenStreetMap (and not a Google Maps or delivery-app scraper)?
The data is open OpenStreetMap data under the ODbL, so you can redistribute it with attribution to © OpenStreetMap contributors — no API key, no anti-bot games, and no Terms-of-Service problems. Fields are honest-null, so what's there is real and what's missing is blank rather than guessed. You can export to CSV, JSON or Excel, and the same tool covers 115+ place categories beyond food.
FAQ
Do I need an API key or account to get restaurant data?
No. You give the tool a city (or a radius, or a name) and run it — no data-provider key and no quota.
Does it include cuisine and opening hours?
Where OpenStreetMap has them, yes — the cuisine tag and opening_hours come straight from OSM. Anything the community hasn't mapped comes back blank, never guessed.
Is this legal? Can I redistribute the data?
Yes. The data is OpenStreetMap under the Open Database License (ODbL) — public data you can redistribute with attribution to © OpenStreetMap contributors. No logins, no Terms-of-Service violations.