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Where to eat in Maplewood, MN
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A few places to eat in Maplewood
- McKnight's Kitchen & Tap American · 0.6 miles
2201 Burns Ave, St Paul - Shawarmin Grill Middle Eastern · 0.8 miles
2113 Old Hudson Rd, Saint Paul - Wild Orchid Vietnamese & Chinese Cuisine · 0.8 miles
705 Century Ave N Ste F, Saint Paul - Bridgeman's Restaurant Ice Cream Shop · 0.8 miles
2111 Old Hudson Rd, Saint Paul - Charminar Biryani House - Maplewood Indian · 0.9 miles
27 Century Ave N, Maplewood
The closest few by distance from central Maplewood, 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 Maplewood.
The food scene in Maplewood
Open listings put 71 places to eat within 2 miles of central Maplewood, none of them within a ten-minute walk. The most common: pizza (10), Chinese (8) and Mexican (5). 14 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Maplewood is Chinese — a type that is listed here at about 4 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 10 Chinese 8 Mexican 5 American 4 Sandwiches 3 Bar & grill 3 Asian 2 Burgers 2 Indian 2
The food in Maplewood
Maplewood 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 Maplewood 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 Maplewood
Maplewood has a population of about 39,765. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Maplewood, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Maplewood is a little thinner on options than average
Maplewood sits in Ramsey County, where the Census counts 381 full-service restaurants, 435 limited-service places, 124 cafés and snack bars and 56 bars — 996 places to eat or drink in all. Maplewood makes up about 7% of the county's population.
That is 18.2 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 edges out sit-down, which is the national norm.
Those county figures also cover St. Paul, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Maplewood.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Maplewood
- Woodbury, MN — about 3 miles away
- St. Paul, MN — about 5 miles away
- Eagan, MN — about 13 miles away
- Minneapolis, MN — about 13 miles away
- Bloomington, MN — about 17 miles away
- Edina, MN — about 18 miles away
Campuses in and near Maplewood
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Metropolitan State University
- Saint Paul College
- Century College
- Concordia University-Saint Paul
- University of St Thomas
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- Minneapolis Community and Technical College
- Normandale 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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