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Where to eat in Hackensack, NJ
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A few places to eat in Hackensack
- Attili's Grill & Cafe · 0.1 miles
215 Main St, Hackensack - V & T Salumeria Delicatessen · 0.1 miles
226 Main St, Hackensack - Mama Fina's Italian · 0.1 miles
253 Main St, Hackensack - Café Baires Argentine · 0.1 miles
210 Main St, Hackensack - Bangkok Garden Restaurant Thai · 0.1 miles
261 Main St, Hackensack
The closest few by distance from central Hackensack, 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 Hackensack.
The food scene in Hackensack
Open listings put 460 places to eat within 2 miles of central Hackensack, 87 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (42), bakery (28) and Italian (25). 20 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Hackensack is Colombian, Dominican and kosher — types that are listed here at 11 to 16 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 42 Bakery 28 Italian 25 Mexican 18 Coffee 16 Chinese 16 American 15 Bagels 13 Ice cream 13 Deli 12
The food in Hackensack
Hackensack 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.
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Eating out in Hackensack
Hackensack has a population of about 44,113. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Hackensack, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Hackensack has more places to eat than most of the country
Hackensack sits in Bergen County, where the Census counts 995 full-service restaurants, 936 limited-service places, 385 cafés and snack bars and 54 bars — 2,370 places to eat or drink in all. Hackensack makes up about 5% of the county's population.
At 24.9 food businesses per 10,000 residents against a national median of 19.4, this is one of the better-supplied places in the country. Choice is not the constraint here; narrowing it down is. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Hackensack
- Passaic, NJ — about 5 miles away
- Clifton, NJ — about 7 miles away
- West New York, NJ — about 7 miles away
- Paterson, NJ — about 7 miles away
- Yonkers, NY — about 8 miles away
- Kearny, NJ — about 10 miles away
Campuses in and near Hackensack
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus
- Bergen Community College
- Yeshiva University
- CUNY City College
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- CUNY Bronx Community College
- CUNY Hostos Community College
- CUNY Lehman College
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
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