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Where to eat in Apple Valley, MN
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A few places to eat in Apple Valley
- Pho Valley Vietnamese · 0.1 miles
7538 149th St W, Apple Valley - Super World Buffet Buffet · 0.1 miles
15050 Cedar Ave #111, Apple Valley - Kalli's Popcorn Shop Popcorn Shop · 0.1 miles
7535 148th St W, Apple Valley - Crumbl - Apple Valley Dessert Shop · 0.2 miles
15052 Gleason Path Ste 105, Apple Valley - Osaka Seafood Steakhouse Pan Asian · 0.2 miles
7537 148th St W Ste A, Apple Valley
The closest few by distance from central Apple Valley, 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 Apple Valley.
The food scene in Apple Valley
Open listings put 115 places to eat within 2 miles of central Apple Valley, 77 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (11), sandwiches (9) and Mexican (8). 10 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Apple Valley is Asian and burgers — types that are listed here at 3 to 5 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 11 Sandwiches 9 Mexican 8 Burgers 8 Bakery 5 American 5 Bar & grill 4 Donuts 3 Chinese 3 Ice cream 3
The food in Apple Valley
Apple Valley 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 Apple Valley 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 Apple Valley
Apple Valley has a population of about 50,201. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Apple Valley, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Eating out in Apple Valley means knowing where to look
Apple Valley sits in Dakota County, where the Census counts 245 full-service restaurants, 303 limited-service places, 60 cafés and snack bars and 26 bars — 634 places to eat or drink in all. Apple Valley makes up about 11% of the county's population.
That is 14.4 per 10,000 residents, well under the national median of 19.4. Worth widening the search radius here — the best option is often in the next town. Counter service edges out sit-down, which is the national norm.
Those county figures also cover Eagan, Burnsville, Lakeville, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Apple Valley.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Apple Valley
- Burnsville, MN — about 4 miles away
- Eagan, MN — about 6 miles away
- Lakeville, MN — about 6 miles away
- Bloomington, MN — about 8 miles away
- Edina, MN — about 13 miles away
- Eden Prairie, MN — about 15 miles away
Campuses in and near Apple Valley
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Normandale Community College
- University of St Thomas
- Concordia University-Saint Paul
- Saint Paul College
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- Minneapolis Community and Technical College
- Metropolitan State University
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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