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Where to eat in Mount Vernon, NY
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A few places to eat in Mount Vernon
- Empire Wok Chinese · under 0.1 miles
8 N 3rd Ave, Mount Vernon - Toss't and Press't Sandwich Shop · under 0.1 miles
5 E Prospect Ave, Mt Vernon - Paleteria La Michoacana Ice Cream Shop · under 0.1 miles
15 E Prospect Ave, Mt Vernon - Chicken Hut Chicken · under 0.1 miles
10 N 3rd Ave, Mt Vernon - Marinheiro Tuga Portuguese · under 0.1 miles
11 Stevens Ave, Mt Vernon
The closest few by distance from central Mount Vernon, 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 Mount Vernon.
The food scene in Mount Vernon
Open listings put 470 places to eat within 2 miles of central Mount Vernon, 63 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (45), deli (41) and bakery (27). 25 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Mount Vernon is Jamaican, Caribbean and soup — types that are listed here at 9 to 31 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 45 Deli 41 Bakery 27 Italian 27 Jamaican 24 Chinese 24 Caribbean 23 American 15 Ice cream 13 Burgers 11
The food in Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon has a population of about 68,224. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Mount Vernon, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Mount Vernon?
Mount Vernon sits in Westchester County, where the Census counts 1,044 full-service restaurants, 807 limited-service places, 331 cafés and snack bars and 79 bars — 2,261 places to eat or drink in all. Mount Vernon makes up about 7% of the county's population.
That is 22.7 per 10,000 residents, comfortably above the national median of 19.4. Enough range that the deciding takes longer than the eating. Unusually, sit-down restaurants outnumber counter-service ones. Nationally it runs close to even and most places tilt the other way, so this is a town that eats at tables.
Those county figures also cover Yonkers, New Rochelle, White Plains, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Mount Vernon.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Mount Vernon
- New Rochelle, NY — about 3 miles away
- Yonkers, NY — about 3 miles away
- White Plains, NY — about 9 miles away
- Hackensack, NJ — about 11 miles away
- West New York, NJ — about 13 miles away
- Hoboken, NJ — about 15 miles away
Campuses in and near Mount Vernon
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- CUNY Lehman College
- Fordham University
- CUNY Bronx Community College
- Yeshiva University
- Mercy College
- CUNY Hostos Community College
- CUNY City College
- Columbia University in the City of New York
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
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