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Where to eat in Livermore, CA
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A few places to eat in Livermore
- Demitri's Taverna Greek · under 0.1 miles
2235 First St, Livermore - The Black Cat Tapas Bar · under 0.1 miles
2241 First St, Livermore - The Fat Pigeon Bar and Grill · under 0.1 miles
2223 First St, Livermore - Simply Fondue Fondue · under 0.1 miles
2300 First St #110, Livermore - Sons Of Liberty Alehouse Gastropub · under 0.1 miles
2327 1st St, Livermore
The closest few by distance from central Livermore, 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 Livermore.
The food scene in Livermore
Open listings put 207 places to eat within 2 miles of central Livermore, 84 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (19), pizza (17) and sandwiches (13). 17 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Livermore is gastropub, Vietnamese and bagels — 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 19 Pizza 17 Sandwiches 13 Burgers 9 Italian 9 Chinese 7 Japanese 6 Coffee 6 Ice cream 6 Sushi 6
The food in Livermore
Livermore 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 Livermore 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 Livermore
Livermore has a population of about 85,156. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Livermore, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Livermore?
Livermore sits in Alameda County, where the Census counts 1,576 full-service restaurants, 1,463 limited-service places, 591 cafés and snack bars and 154 bars — 3,784 places to eat or drink in all. Livermore makes up about 5% of the county's population.
That is 22.7 per 10,000 residents, comfortably above the national median of 19.4. Enough range that the deciding takes longer than the eating. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
Those county figures also cover Oakland, Fremont, Hayward, Berkeley, San Leandro, Alameda, Pleasanton, Union City and 2 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Livermore.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
What are you craving in Livermore?
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Near Livermore
- Pleasanton, CA — about 6 miles away
- Dublin, CA — about 9 miles away
- San Ramon, CA — about 13 miles away
- Fremont, CA — about 15 miles away
- Danville, CA — about 16 miles away
- Union City, CA — about 16 miles away
Campuses in and near Livermore
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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