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Where to eat in Malden, MA
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A few places to eat in Malden
- House of Smoke · under 0.1 miles
29 Centre St, Malden - Mimi's Roast Beef & Seafood Sandwich Shop · 0.1 miles
205 Centre St, Malden - Mineirao Steakhouse Steakhouse · 0.1 miles
100 Ferry St, Malden - Catalina's Pizza Pizza · 0.1 miles
109 Ferry St, Malden - Moe's Cafe Italian · 0.1 miles
114 Ferry St, Malden
The closest few by distance from central Malden, 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 Malden.
The food scene in Malden
Open listings put 347 places to eat within 2 miles of central Malden, 84 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (52), bakery (23) and Chinese (22). 12 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Malden is Brazilian, Ethiopian and Salvadoran — types that are listed here at 7 to 30 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 52 Bakery 23 Chinese 22 Mexican 20 Italian 14 Coffee 13 Sandwiches 12 American 12 Brazilian 12 Ice cream 10
The food in Malden
Malden 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 Malden 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 Malden
Malden has a population of about 60,509. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Malden, 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 Malden?
Malden sits in Middlesex County, where the Census counts 1,381 full-service restaurants, 1,238 limited-service places, 560 cafés and snack bars and 81 bars — 3,260 places to eat or drink in all. Malden makes up about 4% of the county's population.
That works out at 20.1 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 Lowell, Cambridge, Newton, Somerville, Waltham, Medford, Everett, Marlborough and 1 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Malden.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Malden
- Everett, MA — about 1 miles away
- Medford, MA — about 2 miles away
- Chelsea, MA — about 3 miles away
- Revere, MA — about 3 miles away
- Somerville, MA — about 3 miles away
- Cambridge, MA — about 4 miles away
Campuses in and near Malden
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Tufts University
- Bunker Hill Community College
- Harvard University
- Suffolk University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Emerson College
- Boston University
- Berklee College of Music
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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