List of Restaurants With phones, websites and owner emails

A list of restaurants is a structured table of venues in a city or area, with name, address, phone, website, category, Google rating and, when published, an email. B2B teams build it from Google Maps and business websites, then filter it by zone, cuisine and size to sell supplies, software, delivery, payments or marketing.

If you landed here looking for somewhere to eat, this is not a dining directory. It is for people who sell to restaurants and need a working list of restaurants, with contact data, to start from. The same list is often called a restaurant email list, a restaurant database or a restaurant leads list.

What should a list of restaurants contain?

A useful list of restaurants has one row per venue and enough columns to decide who to contact and what to say. A bare list of names is a directory; adding contact and quality signals turns it into a sales tool. These are the fields that earn their place:

Google Maps provides the first five rows. The last two come from the venue's own website and public activity, which is why a good scraper does more than read the map.

How do you build a list of restaurants from Google Maps?

You build it by searching the area on Google Maps, capturing every result, enriching each venue from its website and filtering the result. With a Google Maps scraper this takes minutes instead of the hours a manual copy needs. The process is the same for a neighborhood or a whole city:

Prefer to see it done? Watch the tutorial video for a full extraction from search to results.

Can you get restaurant owner emails, not just info@?

Yes, but it takes more than the map. Google Maps gives you the website, and the website, a team page or an owner's reply to a review often reveals who runs the place. The goal is to reach the person who signs, since a shared inbox is often one that nobody with budget reads.

This matters because restaurants are small businesses. The National Restaurant Association reports that 7 in 10 restaurants in the US are single-unit operations and 9 in 10 have fewer than 50 employees. In that kind of venue the owner or a single manager usually decides on suppliers, software and services, so reaching that person is the whole game. Look for the owner's name on the website's about or team page and in the replies to Google reviews.

Use the generic address only as a fallback. When you find a named owner or manager on the website, lead with that name and a detail from their venue.

Buy, copy by hand or generate: which method is best?

Generating the list on demand from live map and web data is the best option for most teams, because it is current and costs minutes. Buying a static file is fastest to start but ages quickly, and manual copying is accurate but slow.

The last row has a limit: a venue that publishes no email on its website will not give you one. That is why phone, website status and social links are part of the list, so every row has some way in.

How do you segment a list of restaurants so it sells?

Segment by what your offer needs: location, cuisine, size signals and website status. A list of every restaurant in a city is noise, while the same list cut to the venues that fit your offer is a pipeline. Five filters do most of the work:

1. Zone or radius. Delivery, distribution and field sales depend on geography, so filter by neighborhood or distance from your depot.
2. Cuisine and category. A sushi bar, a steakhouse and a vegan cafe buy different products.
3. Rating and review count. Busy, well-rated venues have budget; low ratings point to problems you can solve.
4. Website status. Restaurants with no site are the natural audience for web design and online ordering. See the guide to restaurants without a website.
5. Contactability. Keep rows that have a published email or at least a phone, so reps never open a dead row.

Layer two or three filters, not all five at once, or the list shrinks to nothing. Start broad, check the count, then narrow.

Who uses a list of restaurants, and what do they sell?

Anyone whose product touches a restaurant's food, money, bookings or marketing. Each type of seller uses a different filter, so one generic list rarely works for everyone:

Per Vonsel internal data (2026), restaurants are among the most-prospected business categories on the platform, so this list type comes up constantly in prospecting.

Is it legal to email restaurants? CAN-SPAM, GDPR and PECR

Yes in most markets, if you follow the rules. B2B cold email is allowed but regulated, and the rules differ by country. This is general information, not legal advice, so check local rules before a campaign.

In the US, the CAN-SPAM Act (15 U.S. Code 7704) requires clear identification that the message is an advertisement, a notice of how to opt out, and a valid physical postal address of the sender. Once someone opts out, you must stop emailing them within 10 business days.

In the UK, the ICO guidance on business-to-business marketing explains that corporate subscribers can be emailed without prior consent, while sole traders and some partnerships generally need consent. Where personal data is involved, UK GDPR still applies, and legitimate interests can be a lawful basis after a balancing test. Many independent restaurants are run by sole traders, so this distinction is real. Our GDPR guide for B2B sales teams covers the wider EU framework.

A practical checklist that works in both systems:

1. Send a relevant offer to the business, not to a private person's personal address.
2. Say who you are in every message and include your postal address.
3. Add a clear opt-out and honor it immediately.
4. Keep a suppression list so removed contacts never return.
5. Verify every email address before the first send to keep bounces low.

How do you keep a list of restaurants fresh?

Treat the list as a search you can re-run. Restaurants open, close, rebrand and change phone numbers all the time, so an old export keeps sending messages to venues that no longer exist.

Re-run your saved search before each campaign, remove venues Google Maps marks as closed, and add new openings, which are often the best prospects because they are still choosing suppliers and tools. Log replies and outcomes in the CRM so the next export starts from what you already learned.

How Vonsel builds your list of restaurants

Search Google Maps and press Start. Vonsel gathers the business results as you explore the map, going beyond the pins you can see at a glance. Pause, continue and save your search when you are ready. Google Maps does not provide business emails. Vonsel visits the available business websites to find published emails, additional phone numbers and links to up to 118 supported social networks and other platforms. What it finds depends on what each website publishes. Keep businesses on a map, organise them by stage, edit their details and use a Kanban board, calendar, notes, actions, tags and custom fields.

Free extraction covers 200 businesses a month, and the limits of each plan are on the pricing page.

In short:

• A list of restaurants needs contact fields and quality signals as well as names.
• Build it from live Maps and website data, then segment before you send.
• Reach the owner where you can, verify emails and follow CAN-SPAM, GDPR and PECR rules.