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Where to eat in Lima, OH
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A few places to eat in Lima
- The Met American · under 0.1 miles
306 N Main St, Lima - 318 Restaurant & Bar Bar and Grill · under 0.1 miles
318 N Main St, Lima - Teasers Diner · 0.1 miles
312 N Main St, Lima - Joey's Italian Deli and Subs Italian · 0.1 miles
124 N Main St, Lima - Q BBQ & Fixin's · 0.3 miles
147 S Main St, Lima
The closest few by distance from central Lima, 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 Lima.
The food scene in Lima
Open listings put 89 places to eat within 2 miles of central Lima, 17 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (11), bar & grill (8) and bakery (6). 10 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Lima is chicken, bar & grill and donuts — types that are listed here at 3 to 3 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 11 Bar & grill 8 Bakery 6 Chicken 5 Chinese 4 Donuts 4 Sandwiches 4 Ice cream 3 Italian 3 Deli 2
The food in Lima
Lima 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 Lima 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 Lima
Lima has a population of about 38,355. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Lima, 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 Lima?
Lima sits in Allen County, where the Census counts 57 full-service restaurants, 98 limited-service places, 23 cafés and snack bars and 13 bars — 191 places to eat or drink in all. Lima makes up about 38% of the county's population.
That works out at 18.7 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 clearly outnumbers sit-down — more a drive-through town than a linger-over-dinner one.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Lima
- Findlay, OH — about 32 miles away
- Springfield, OH — about 59 miles away
- Fort Wayne, IN — about 59 miles away
- Huber Heights, OH — about 62 miles away
- Dayton, OH — about 68 miles away
- Dublin, OH — about 68 miles away
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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