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Where to eat in Kenosha, WI
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A few places to eat in Kenosha
- Church & Market Tapas Bar · 0.1 miles
701 56th St, Kenosha - The 1844 Table & Mash · 0.1 miles
5706 8th Ave, Kenosha - Scoops Ice Cream & Candy Ice Cream Shop · 0.1 miles
5711 8th Ave #4002, Kenosha - Mangia Wine Bar Italian · 0.1 miles
5717 Sheridan Rd, Kenosha - Sandy's Popper Dessert Shop · 0.1 miles
5700 6th Ave, Kenosha
The closest few by distance from central Kenosha, 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 Kenosha.
The food scene in Kenosha
Open listings put 144 places to eat within 2 miles of central Kenosha, 47 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: bar & grill (19), Mexican (16) and pizza (12). 11 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Kenosha is bar & grill — a type that is listed here at about 5 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Bar & grill 19 Mexican 16 Pizza 12 American 11 Bakery 9 Coffee 8 Italian 7 Ice cream 5 Sandwiches 4 Chinese 3
The food in Kenosha
Kenosha 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 Kenosha 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 Kenosha
Kenosha has a population of about 99,889. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Kenosha, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How many places to eat are there in Kenosha?
Kenosha sits in Kenosha County, where the Census counts 119 full-service restaurants, 124 limited-service places, 23 cafés and snack bars and 72 bars — 338 places to eat or drink in all. Kenosha makes up about 59% of the county's population.
That works out at 20 per 10,000 residents, which is about level with the national median of 19.4 — a normal amount of choice, and a normal amount of indecision. Counter service edges out sit-down, which is the national norm.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
What are you craving in Kenosha?
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Near Kenosha
- Racine, WI — about 10 miles away
- Waukegan, IL — about 15 miles away
- Greenfield, WI — about 28 miles away
- Buffalo Grove, IL — about 30 miles away
- New Berlin, WI — about 31 miles away
- Wheeling, IL — about 31 miles away
Campuses in and near Kenosha
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
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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