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Where to eat in Lakeville, MN
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A few places to eat in Lakeville
- Babe's Music Bar Bar and Grill · under 0.1 miles
20685 Holyoke Ave, Lakeville - B-52 Burgers and Brew Burger · 0.1 miles
20751 Holyoke Ave, Lakeville - The Better Half American · 0.1 miles
20851 Holyoke Ave, Lakeville - Dairy Delite Ice Cream Shop · 0.2 miles
20885 Holyoke Ave, Lakeville - Baldy's BBQ Barbecue · 0.2 miles
20944 Holyoke Ave, Lakeville
The closest few by distance from central Lakeville, 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 Lakeville.
The food scene in Lakeville
Open listings put 18 places to eat within 2 miles of central Lakeville, 12 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (3) and American (2). 1 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
The food in Lakeville
Lakeville 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 Lakeville 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 Lakeville
Lakeville has a population of about 58,562. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Lakeville, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Eating out in Lakeville means knowing where to look
Lakeville 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. Lakeville makes up about 13% 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, Apple Valley, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Lakeville.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Lakeville
- Apple Valley, MN — about 6 miles away
- Burnsville, MN — about 8 miles away
- Eagan, MN — about 11 miles away
- Bloomington, MN — about 13 miles away
- Shakopee, MN — about 17 miles away
- Edina, MN — about 17 miles away
Campuses in and near Lakeville
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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