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Where to eat in Margate, FL
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A few places to eat in Margate
- Wings Your Way · 0.1 miles
5885 Margate Blvd, Margate - Backstreet Restaurant & Lounge American · 0.1 miles
5801 Margate Blvd, Margate - The Gem Eatery Comfort Food · 0.2 miles
1043 FL-7, Margate - Holy Cow Ice Cream Ice Cream Shop · 0.2 miles
1049 FL-7, Margate - Manny's Bakery & Cafe Bakery · 0.3 miles
9711 W Sample Rd, Coral Springs
The closest few by distance from central Margate, 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 Margate.
The food scene in Margate
Open listings put 192 places to eat within 2 miles of central Margate, 31 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (18), Caribbean (15) and Chinese (9). 13 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Margate is Colombian, Caribbean and Dominican — types that are listed here at 17 to 35 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 18 Caribbean 15 Chinese 9 Italian 8 Sandwiches 8 Bakery 8 Colombian 7 American 7 Donuts 6 Mexican 6
The food in Margate
Margate 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 Margate 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 Margate
Margate has a population of about 55,456. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Margate, 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 Margate?
Margate sits in Broward County, where the Census counts 1,699 full-service restaurants, 1,460 limited-service places, 490 cafés and snack bars and 160 bars — 3,809 places to eat or drink in all. Margate makes up about 3% of the county's population.
That works out at 19.6 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 Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Hollywood, Miramar, Coral Springs, Pompano Beach, Davie, Plantation and 9 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Margate.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Margate
- Coconut Creek, FL — about 2 miles away
- North Lauderdale, FL — about 2 miles away
- Tamarac, FL — about 3 miles away
- Coral Springs, FL — about 4 miles away
- Pompano Beach, FL — about 5 miles away
- Sunrise, FL — about 6 miles away
Campuses in and near Margate
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale
- Broward College
- Florida Atlantic University
- Nova Southeastern University
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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