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Where to eat in Lee's Summit, MO
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A few places to eat in Lee's Summit
- The Paperback Bakery Bakery · 0.2 miles
500 SW 3rd St A, Lee's Summit - El Plato Mexican Grill & Cantina Mexican · 0.2 miles
22 SW 3rd St, Lee's Summit - Johnny Jo's Pizzeria · 0.2 miles
2 SW 3rd St, Lee's Summit - Konrad's Kitchen and Tap House Gastropub · 0.2 miles
302 SW Main St, Lee's Summit - Flavor & The Downtown Deli & Market Delicatessen · 0.2 miles
318 SW Main St, Lees Summit
The closest few by distance from central Lee's Summit, 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 Lee's Summit.
The food scene in Lee's Summit
Open listings put 190 places to eat within 2 miles of central Lee's Summit, 28 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (20), pizza (15) and sandwiches (15). 22 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Lee's Summit is dessert — a type that is listed here at about 3 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Mexican 20 Pizza 15 Sandwiches 15 Coffee 9 Bakery 8 Ice cream 8 Burgers 7 Barbecue 7 Dessert 5 Seafood 5
The food in Lee's Summit
Lee's Summit 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 Lee's Summit
Lee's Summit has a population of about 93,184. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Lee's Summit, 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 Lee's Summit?
Lee's Summit sits in Jackson County, where the Census counts 571 full-service restaurants, 550 limited-service places, 151 cafés and snack bars and 113 bars — 1,385 places to eat or drink in all. Lee's Summit makes up about 13% of the county's population.
That works out at 19.4 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. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
Those county figures also cover Kansas City, Independence, Blue Springs, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Lee's Summit.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Lee's Summit
- Blue Springs, MO — about 9 miles away
- Independence, MO — about 13 miles away
- Overland Park, KS — about 16 miles away
- Kansas City, MO — about 17 miles away
- Lenexa, KS — about 19 miles away
- Kansas City, KS — about 19 miles away
Campuses in and near Lee's Summit
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City
- Johnson County Community 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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