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Where to eat in Livonia, MI
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A few places to eat in Livonia
- Daly Drive-In Theme · 0.1 miles
31500 Plymouth Rd, Livonia - Fattoush Village Cafe and Grill Lebanese · 0.1 miles
31205 Plymouth Rd, Livonia - Luigi's Trattoria Pizzeria Italian · 0.1 miles
31530 Plymouth Rd, Livonia - The Boneyard Bbq Livonia Barbecue · 0.2 miles
30843 Plymouth Rd, Livonia - Saya Sushi Pan Asian · 0.3 miles
31823 Plymouth Rd, Livonia
The closest few by distance from central Livonia, 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 Livonia.
The food scene in Livonia
Open listings put 154 places to eat within 2 miles of central Livonia, 20 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (23), sandwiches (13) and American (7). 18 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Livonia is Mediterranean and chicken — types that are listed here at 2 to 6 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 23 Sandwiches 13 American 7 Mediterranean 7 Ice cream 7 Bakery 6 Italian 6 Chicken 6 Bar & grill 4 Mexican 4
The food in Livonia
Livonia 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 Livonia
Livonia has a population of about 95,208. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Livonia, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Livonia is a little thinner on options than average
Livonia sits in Wayne County, where the Census counts 1,154 full-service restaurants, 1,484 limited-service places, 256 cafés and snack bars and 223 bars — 3,117 places to eat or drink in all. Livonia makes up about 5% of the county's population.
That is 17.5 per 10,000 residents, a little under the national median of 19.4. Fewer options than average, which makes picking the right one matter more. Counter service clearly outnumbers sit-down — more a drive-through town than a linger-over-dinner one.
Those county figures also cover Detroit, Dearborn, Westland, Taylor, Dearborn Heights, Lincoln Park, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Livonia.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Livonia
- Westland, MI — about 4 miles away
- Dearborn Heights, MI — about 5 miles away
- Farmington Hills, MI — about 9 miles away
- Dearborn, MI — about 10 miles away
- Taylor, MI — about 10 miles away
- Southfield, MI — about 10 miles away
Campuses in and near Livonia
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Henry Ford College
- University of Michigan-Dearborn
- University of Detroit Mercy
- Wayne State University
- Eastern Michigan University
- Washtenaw 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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