Restaurants in California

Explore 40,020 places to eat and drink across 1,011 cities and towns in California. The cities with the most listings are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and Sacramento. Popular categories include fast food restaurants, Mexican restaurants, coffee shops, and pizza restaurants.

Eating out in California: what the data says

The most common kinds of places in our California guide are fast food restaurants (4,684), Mexican restaurants (4,449), coffee shops (3,625), pizza restaurants (2,425), and sandwich shops (2,026). San Francisco alone accounts for 7% of all listings in the state.

Of the 23,571 places in California that publish their opening hours, the typical weekday runs from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM. 91% open on Sundays, 79% are open every day of the week, 26% open by 7 AM and 44% stay open until 10 PM or later.

We have 4,244 menus from California on file with 295,393 priced items. The median item costs $13.00, and half of all items are priced between $7.00 and $18.50.

Most common menu items in California

ItemOn menusTypical price
French Fries13%$5.58
Coffee10%$3.59
Hot Tea9%$3.72
Caesar Salad9%$12.95
Rice9%$3.99
Huevos Rancheros9%$14.99
Chicken8%$13.99
Hot Chocolate8%$4.40

Most talked-about places in California

Cuisines in California

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