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Where to eat in Daly City, CA
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A few places to eat in Daly City
- SFMeal Chinese · under 0.1 miles
25 Washington St, Daly City - Cybelle's Pizza Brazilian · 0.1 miles
2985 Junipero Serra Blvd, Daly City - Los Metates Mexican · 0.1 miles
260 San Pedro Rd, Daly City - Keith's Chicken N Waffles Soul Food · 0.1 miles
270 San Pedro Rd, Daly City - Jelly Donut Donut Shop · 0.2 miles
56 San Pedro Rd, Daly City
The closest few by distance from central Daly City, 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 Daly City.
The food scene in Daly City
Open listings put 296 places to eat within 2 miles of central Daly City, 65 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (23), Chinese (22) and Filipino (19). 23 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Daly City is Filipino, dim sum and Hawaiian — types that are listed here at 7 to 49 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 23 Chinese 22 Filipino 19 Mexican 17 Bakery 13 Sandwiches 12 Burgers 12 Japanese 9 Dessert 8 Coffee 8
The food in Daly City
Daly City has more than enough places to eat — the trouble is choosing between them without spending longer deciding than eating.
Savor Scout picks one restaurant in Daly City 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 Daly City
Daly City has a population of about 104,739. A city this size has real range, and range is what makes the decision slow. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Daly City, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Daly City?
Daly City sits in San Mateo County, where the Census counts 792 full-service restaurants, 607 limited-service places, 297 cafés and snack bars and 50 bars — 1,746 places to eat or drink in all. Daly City makes up about 14% of the county's population.
That is 23.1 per 10,000 residents, comfortably above the national median of 19.4. Enough range that the deciding takes longer than the eating. Unusually, sit-down restaurants outnumber counter-service ones. Nationally it runs close to even and most places tilt the other way, so this is a town that eats at tables.
Those county figures also cover San Mateo, Redwood City, South San Francisco, San Bruno, Pacifica, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Daly City.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Daly City
- South San Francisco, CA — about 4 miles away
- San Bruno, CA — about 5 miles away
- Pacifica, CA — about 5 miles away
- San Francisco, CA — about 7 miles away
- San Mateo, CA — about 12 miles away
- Oakland, CA — about 14 miles away
Campuses in and near Daly City
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- San Francisco State University
- City College of San Francisco
- Skyline College
- University of San Francisco
- College of Alameda
- College of San Mateo
- Laney College
- Berkeley City College
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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