New York Eats · Ithaca, Southern Tier
Ithaca restaurants
211 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in Ithaca.
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Ithaca at a glance
Our directory counts 211 places to eat and drink in Ithaca. Bar & Pub (38), Coffee & Café (22), and Pizza (13) lead the kinds of food. 81 hold an on-premises liquor license from the State Liquor Authority. 30 are locations of a chain with five or more in New York. None of our 228 hand-checked guide places is in Ithaca or within 20 miles of it yet.
Health inspections here
In Tompkins County, the New York State Department of Health publishes each place's latest inspection: its date and the counts of critical and other violations. There is no official grade there, and we don't make one. We matched 117 of the 211 places in Ithaca to a state inspection record; each one's latest inspection date and counts are in its panel in the web search, with NYSDOH's own disclaimer.
Honored in Ithaca
1 place with a MICHELIN distinction or a James Beard honor, by name. Honors are facts, not ratings. All New York icons.
Moosewood
215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca
America's Classic
James Beard: America's Classics winner 2000
Latest state inspection Jul 31, 20261 critical violation, 0 other violations (NYSDOH)
Ithaca by street
The streets in Ithaca with the most places to eat and drink: E State St (23), Elmira Rd (23), W State St (19), Dryden Rd (14), N Aurora St (13), S Meadow St (12), Eddy St (9), College Ave (9), Taughannock Blvd (7), and W Green St (6).
What Ithaca eats
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About the inspection results
Outside New York City there is no official restaurant grade, and we don't make one. Where shown, the date and counts are from the New York State Department of Health's latest inspection on file (health.data.ny.gov), records through Sep 24, 2026. In NYSDOH's words:
“Any use of this data to develop a restaurant grading system is not supported or endorsed by the New York State Department of Health.”
Any analyses, interpretations or conclusions here are ours, not NYSDOH's. Places are never ordered by these counts.