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Where to eat in Alameda, CA
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A few places to eat in Alameda
- Sakura Sushi Bar and Grill Sushi · under 0.1 miles
2408 Santa Clara Ave, Alameda - Tasty Point Taiwanese · under 0.1 miles
2412 Santa Clara Ave, Alameda - Phở Sinh Vietnamese · under 0.1 miles
1434 Park St, Alameda - Linguini's Pasta & Vino Italian · under 0.1 miles
1508 Park St, Alameda - Ole's Waffle Shop Breakfast and Brunch · under 0.1 miles
1507 Park St, Alameda
The closest few by distance from central Alameda, 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 in Alameda.
The food scene in Alameda
Open listings put 427 places to eat within 2 miles of central Alameda, 124 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (60), pizza (29) and bakery (22). 21 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Alameda is Salvadoran, Filipino and Vietnamese — types that are listed here at 6 to 9 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Mexican 60 Pizza 29 Bakery 22 Vietnamese 18 Chinese 17 Sushi 15 Sandwiches 15 Coffee 15 Tacos 12 American 11
The food in Alameda
Alameda does not have infinite options, and that brings its own problem: you have been to most of them, and picking again is somehow still hard.
Savor Scout picks one restaurant in Alameda and tells you why it picked it. Say what you're craving and it reads menus and reviews for that specific dish, rather than sorting places by overall star rating. Free, runs in the browser, and one search needs no account.
Eating out in Alameda
Alameda has a population of about 76,419. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Alameda, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Alameda?
Alameda sits in Alameda County, where the Census counts 1,576 full-service restaurants, 1,463 limited-service places, 591 cafés and snack bars and 154 bars — 3,784 places to eat or drink in all. Alameda makes up about 5% of the county's population.
That is 22.7 per 10,000 residents, comfortably above the national median of 19.4. Enough range that the deciding takes longer than the eating. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
Those county figures also cover Oakland, Fremont, Hayward, Berkeley, San Leandro, Livermore, Pleasanton, Union City and 2 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Alameda.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Alameda
- Oakland, CA — about 3 miles away
- San Leandro, CA — about 5 miles away
- Berkeley, CA — about 8 miles away
- San Francisco, CA — about 10 miles away
- Hayward, CA — about 11 miles away
- South San Francisco, CA — about 12 miles away
Campuses in and near Alameda
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- College of Alameda
- Laney College
- Merritt College
- University of California-Berkeley
- Berkeley City College
- Chabot College
- University of San Francisco
- City College of San Francisco
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
Maps and Yelp are directories: they rank everything nearby and leave the deciding to you. Savor Scout makes the call and shows its reasoning — the match score, what it beat, and the evidence behind the pick. The underlying place data comes from the same public sources, so the difference is the selection, not the data.
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