Citation sites for restaurants
These are the 13 citation sites and business directories we list for restaurants, and 10 of them are free. Diners check booking and review sites before they choose, so a restaurant needs more than Google alone. A citation is any site that shows your business name, address and phone number.
Tip for restaurants: Keep your menu link and opening hours the same on every site, and change them everywhere on the same day. Enter your name, address and phone number exactly as they appear on your Google Business Profile.
Start with these listings
Every business needs these, in any country.
- 1
Google Business Profile
FreeThe listing every other one is compared against. If the name, address and phone here are not exactly right, nothing else you fix will hold.
- 2
Bing Places
FreeFeeds Bing Maps and Microsoft Copilot answers. The closest thing to a second Google, and most local businesses never claim it.
- 3
Apple Business Connect
FreeEvery iPhone using Apple Maps, Siri and Spotlight reads this. Free, and a large share of your customers are on iOS.
- 4
Facebook Page
FreeA strong, trusted citation and often the second result people click after Google.
- 5
Yelp
FreeHeavily crawled and frequently quoted by AI assistants when they list local options.
- 6
Trustpilot
FreeReviews here get quoted back by AI assistants and often show up on page one for "your name reviews".
Sites for restaurants in most countries
Check that the site is active where you work before you sign up.
- 7
Tripadvisor
FreeDecisive for anything a visitor books, and it frequently outranks the business own website for its own name.
- 8
OpenTable
PaidReservations plus a citation on a site diners already trust.
- 9
HappyCow
FreeSmall but extremely well ranked for vegan and vegetarian searches.
- 10
BringFido
FreeNarrow but loyal. If you genuinely welcome dogs, this sends people who chose you for that.
Sites for restaurants in the United States
Sites for restaurants in other countries
Copy your exact details in one go
RankLocal reads your name, address, phone and categories from your live Google profile and shows them as one block to copy into each listing, then keeps track of which ones you have done.