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Where to eat in Highland, CA
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A few places to eat in Highland
- Orchid Thai Restaurant Thai · 0.5 miles
27266 Base Line St, Highland - MB African Cuisine African · 0.5 miles
27208 Baseline St, Highland - Dos Amigos Tortas Mexican · 0.5 miles
27224 Baseline St, Highland - 3D Donut Donut Shop · 0.5 miles
27303 Base Line St #102, Highland - The Burger Boys Burger · 0.6 miles
3644 E Highland Ave, San Bernardino
The closest few by distance from central Highland, 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 Highland.
The food scene in Highland
Open listings put 101 places to eat within 2 miles of central Highland, 7 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (16), burgers (7) and pizza (6). 17 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Highland is Vietnamese, Thai and burgers — types that are listed here at 3 to 4 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Mexican 16 Burgers 7 Pizza 6 Sandwiches 6 Ice cream 4 Chinese 4 Vietnamese 3 Thai 3 Sushi 3 Donuts 3
The food in Highland
Highland 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 Highland 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 Highland
Highland has a population of about 54,291. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Highland, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Highland is a little thinner on options than average
Highland sits in San Bernardino County, where the Census counts 1,244 full-service restaurants, 1,863 limited-service places, 532 cafés and snack bars and 89 bars — 3,728 places to eat or drink in all. Highland makes up about 2% of the county's population.
That is 17.1 per 10,000 residents, a little under the national median of 19.4. Fewer options than average, which makes picking the right one matter more. Counter service clearly outnumbers sit-down — more a drive-through town than a linger-over-dinner one.
Those county figures also cover San Bernardino, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Victorville, Rialto, Hesperia, Chino and 7 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Highland.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Highland
- San Bernardino, CA — about 5 miles away
- Redlands, CA — about 5 miles away
- Colton, CA — about 7 miles away
- Rialto, CA — about 9 miles away
- Yucaipa, CA — about 11 miles away
- Moreno Valley, CA — about 13 miles away
Campuses in and near Highland
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- San Bernardino Valley College
- California State University-San Bernardino
- Crafton Hills College
- University of California-Riverside
- Riverside City College
- Moreno Valley College
- California Baptist 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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