There are many different types of chicken based dishes such as fried chicken, chicken sandwiches, or chicken and biscuits. Many restaurants specialize in wings as entrees.

Chicken

Ice cream is one of the most popular desserts in the US. It is served with a wide variety of flavors and styles, and has sugar-free and fat-free alternatives. Frozen yogurt is growing in popularity as a healthier alternative to ice cream.

Frozen Desserts

Seafood is available in both farm raised and wild varieties; fish such as catfish, tilapia, and salmon are routinely farm raise, while swordfish, tuna, and shark are caught wild.

Seafood

The dishes served in many North American Asian restaurants are adapted to American tastes and often differ significantly from those found in their respective countries.

Asian

Baked goods are foods made from dough or batter and cooked by baking in an oven. They are served in bakeries, cafes and specialty dessert shops.

Baked Goods

Barbeque (or barbecue) refers to methods that use smoke and fire to cook food, as well as the cuisine that these methods produce. American barbecue as we know it was born in the south, and each Southern locale has its own variety.

Barbeque

Bowls

Arcade

Cookies

Cake

Tacos

Burritos

Since its introduction to the US by Italian immigrants in the early-20th century, pizza has become an iconic food of considerable popularity. Variations include deep-dish, stuffed, pockets, and turnovers.

Pizza

The hamburger is the food most strongly associated with fast food restaurants today. White Castle is credited with opening the first hamburger chain in 1921. They made the first attempt to standardize food production, spawning numerous competitors and emulators.

Hamburgers

Hot dogs originate from German frankfurters. They became a popular street food in the US, sold at stands and carts. Although associated with New York City, the hot dog became ubiquitous throughout the US in the 20th century.

Hot Dog

Due in part to franchising, immigration, and taste, Mexican food has been a regular part of American cuisine. While some of these iterations of Mexican food are far removed from their Mexican origins, they have become established in their own right.

Mexican/Tex-Mex

Historians think that the brunch came about thanks to the South's favorite pastimes of hunting and church-going. Restaurants were happy to specialize in a morning and late-morning crowd.

Breakfast

Out of working-class chophouses and the upper-class beefsteak banquets, the true US-style steakhouse was born in the mid 1800s. The first steakhouses were established in New York, and set themselves apart by serving high quality cuts of meat in a clean environment.

Steakhouse

In the late 1970s, a new wave of coffee culture emerged across the US. This was when café culture really started to become a social concept across the country, and people started to spend a lot of time in coffee shops.

Beverages

What makes a food 'American'? Nearly all popular American foods originated in other countries. Every dish carries with it many generations' worth of social complexities and innovations.

American

As immigrants from the different regions of Italy settled throughout the various regions of the United States, many brought with them a distinct regional Italian culinary tradition. Many of these foods and recipes developed into new favorites for Americans nationwide.

Italian

The term “pub” is shortened for “public house” and was initially a focal point of small towns and designated as drinking establishments. They typically offered beer, wine, and spirits.

Bar & Pub

In the US, the sandwich was first promoted as an elaborate meal at supper. By the early 20th century, as bread became a staple of the American diet, the sandwich became the same kind of popular, quick meal as was already widespread in the Mediterranean.

Sandwiches

Vietnamese

Bubble Tea

Convenience Store

One of the strongest Caribbean influences on American foods is making several of the latter dishes more spicy. It's customary to see dishes like spicy Jamaican foods like Jerk Chicken and Pork, curried mutton and oxtail and beans, in Caribbean restaurants.

Carribean

The most popular European cuisines in the US apart from Italian food include French, Spanish and Polish food.

European

Only in recent years have salads become a competitor in the fast-casual restaurant category. As healthy eating has moved from a niche pursuit to a mainstream interest, the popularity of made-to-order salads has boomed.

Salad

Beef

Healthy

Sports Bar

Wings

Chinese

Japanese

Korean

Hawaiian

Mongolian

Diner

Bagel

Coffee

Pretzels

Bakery

French

Donuts

Pancakes

Fondue

Frozen Yogurt

Ice Cream

Juice

Greek

Mediterranean

Sushi

Chili

Tubby's

Tudor's Biscuit World

Which Wich?

Capriotti's

DiBella's

True Food Kitchen

Pret a Manger

McAlister's Deli

Miami Grill

Subway

Togo's

Maid-Rite

Mendocino Farms

Paris Baguette

Penn Station East Coast Subs

Pita Pit

Port of Subs

Potbelly Sandwich Shop

Charleys Philly Steaks

Corner Bakery

Cousins Subs

D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches

Daphne's Greek Cafe

Primo Hoagies

Quiznos

Rax Roast Beef

Sandella's Flatbread Café

Schlotzsky's

Steak Escape

Earl of Sandwich

Eegee's

Erbert & Gerbert's

Firehouse Subs

Great Wraps

HoneyBaked Ham Co.

Jason's Deli

Jerry's Subs & Pizza

Arby's

Atlanta Bread Company

Blimpie

Camille's Sidewalk Cafe

Così

Runza

Jersey Mike's Subs

Jimmy John's

Lee's Sandwiches

Lenny's Grill & Sub

Lion's Choice

Newk's Eatery

Panera Bread


Subway	21147
Panera Bread	2121
Arby's	3409
Jimmy John's	2657
Jersey Mike's Subs	2100
Firehouse Subs	1164
McAlister's Deli	506
Jason's Deli	247
Charleys Philly Steaks	589
Potbelly Sandwich Shop	443
Schlotzsky's	323
HoneyBaked Ham Co.	409
Penn Station East Coast Subs	312
Corner Bakery	161
True Food Kitchen	40
Newk's Eatery	101
Pret a Manger	81
Paris Baguette	96
Which Wich?	270
Runza	87
Mendocino Farms	42
Tubby's
Tudor's Biscuit World
Capriotti's	106
DiBella's	43
Miami Grill	31
Togo's	200
Maid-Rite	32
Pita Pit	500
Port of Subs	140
Cousins Subs
D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches	86
Daphne's Greek Cafe
Primo Hoagies	95
Quiznos	800
Rax Roast Beef	8
Sandella's Flatbread Café	130
Steak Escape	100
Earl of Sandwich	31
Eegee's	24
Erbert & Gerbert's	50
Great Wraps
Jerry's Subs & Pizza	28
Atlanta Bread Company	37
Blimpie	2000
Camille's Sidewalk Cafe	107
Così	66
Lee's Sandwiches	61
Lenny's Grill & Sub	100
Lion's Choice	26

Most Popular Sandwiches Restaurants