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A few places to eat near Northeast Lakeview College
- Crawfish King Seafood · 0.7 miles
8142 Shin Oak Dr, Live Oak - T-good's Shaved Ice Shaved Ice Shop · 0.7 miles
910 Kitty Hawk Rd, Universal City - O & A's Flaming Wok Chinese · 0.7 miles
8142 Shin Oak Dr Ste 116, Live Oak - Mary Ellen's Bistro · 0.8 miles
2801 Pat Booker Rd, Universal City - Taqueria Casa Jalisco Mexican · 0.8 miles
10696 Toepperwein Rd, Converse
The closest few by distance from campus, not a ranking — local places listed ahead of chains. Listings from Overture Maps open data (September 2026); hours and openings change, so check before you go. Want one picked for what you're craving instead? Ask Savor Scout near Northeast Lakeview College.
The food scene around Northeast Lakeview College
Open listings put 40 places to eat within 1 mile of Northeast Lakeview College, 1 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (4), Chinese (4) and Mexican (2). 5 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out around Northeast Lakeview College is Chinese — a type that is listed here at about 3 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 4 Chinese 4 Mexican 2 Bakery 2 Shaved ice 2 Chicken 2 Ice cream 2 Buffet 2 Vietnamese 2 Coffee 2
Eating around Northeast Lakeview College
Northeast Lakeview College is in a suburban setting, which produces a specific pattern: a strip of chains close to campus, and the genuinely good independent restaurants scattered across a few miles in directions nobody tells you about in your first year.
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The campus
- Location — Universal City, TX
- Setting — in a suburb
- Size — 5,000 to 9,999 students
- Type — Public two-year college
Campus figures are from IPEDS, the US Department of Education's institutional survey. Size is reported as the survey's own bracket rather than an exact headcount, because that is what the public dataset gives and we would rather quote it than estimate.
Eating near a mid-sized campus in a suburb
Suburban campuses reward a car or a willingness to take a bus for fifteen minutes. The restaurants worth knowing are rarely the ones visible from the main road, and a suburb's best food is frequently in an unremarkable plaza.
Most students at Northeast Lakeview College commute, and a lot of them work, which changes what a good restaurant near campus is. The useful places are the ones between campus, work and home, fast enough to fit between a class and a shift, and cheap enough to be a habit. Late-night matters less than a lunch that takes twenty minutes.
A student body this size supports a real cluster of restaurants without supporting a huge one, which tends to produce a small number of very good places rather than a wide field of average ones. The upside is that the good ones are easy to find. The downside is that you will have been to all of them by your second year.
The nearest city of any real size is San Antonio, TX, about 13 miles away — worth knowing for the nights when the usual options near campus have run out.
One thing that catches everyone out: term time and break are different towns. Hours shrink, some places close entirely, and the listings almost never keep up — so a place that shows as open in July may not be.
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Nearby cities
Savor Scout searches a wide radius, so these are all in range:
- San Antonio, TX — about 13 miles away
- New Braunfels, TX — about 16 miles away
- San Marcos, TX — about 33 miles away
- Austin, TX — about 61 miles away
- Cedar Park, TX — about 73 miles away
Guides worth reading
- Where to get a quick lunch
- Where to eat when you're broke
- What to eat after a shift
- What to eat during finals week
- Eating out with a dietary restriction
Nearby campuses
Comparing schools, or eating with friends across town? These are the closest campuses to Northeast Lakeview College.
- University of the Incarnate Word
- St Philip's College
- San Antonio College
- The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Palo Alto College
- Texas A&M University-San Antonio
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