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Where to eat in Moline, IL
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A few places to eat in Moline
- Sugar a la mode | Moline IL Dessert Shop · under 0.1 miles
1603 5th Ave, Moline - Le Mekong Vietnamese · under 0.1 miles
1606 5th Ave, Moline - Harvest Deli Delicatessen · under 0.1 miles
1515 5th Ave Ste 102, Moline - Corazon Latino Restaurant Bar Bar and Grill · under 0.1 miles
1514 5th Ave, Moline - V.I.Ps Corner Bar & Grill American · 0.1 miles
425 15th St, Moline
The closest few by distance from central Moline, 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 Moline.
The food scene in Moline
Open listings put 126 places to eat within 2 miles of central Moline, 40 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (18), Mexican (17) and bar & grill (10). 10 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Moline is bar & grill, Thai and breakfast & brunch — types that are listed here at 3 to 3 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 18 Mexican 17 Bar & grill 10 American 6 Breakfast & brunch 5 Thai 4 Ice cream 3 Chinese 3 Barbecue 3 Steakhouse 3
The food in Moline
Moline 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 Moline 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 Moline
Moline has a population of about 43,116. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Moline, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Moline?
Moline sits in Rock Island County, where the Census counts 119 full-service restaurants, 130 limited-service places, 26 cafés and snack bars and 56 bars — 331 places to eat or drink in all. Moline makes up about 30% of the county's population.
That is 23 per 10,000 residents, comfortably above the national median of 19.4. Enough range that the deciding takes longer than the eating. Counter service edges out sit-down, which is the national norm.
Those county figures also cover Rock Island, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Moline.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Moline
- Rock Island, IL — about 3 miles away
- Davenport, IA — about 3 miles away
- Iowa City, IA — about 54 miles away
- Cedar Rapids, IA — about 68 miles away
- Dubuque, IA — about 69 miles away
- Peoria, IL — about 74 miles away
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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