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Where to eat in Oakland Park, FL
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A few places to eat in Oakland Park
- Moon Pizza Pie Pizza · 0.1 miles
3501 N Dixie Hwy, Oakland Park - The Butcher's Barrel Gastropub · 0.1 miles
3580 NE 12th Ave, Oakland Park - Nour Thai Kitchen Thai · 0.1 miles
3554 NE 12th Ave, Oakland Park - Red Sea Eritrean & Ethiopian Cuisine Ethiopian · 0.1 miles
3500 NE 12th Ave, Oakland Park - Golden Express Chinese · 0.1 miles
3778 NE 12th Ave, Oakland Park
The closest few by distance from central Oakland Park, 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 Oakland Park.
The food scene in Oakland Park
Open listings put 503 places to eat within 2 miles of central Oakland Park, 26 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Italian (37), pizza (36) and Mexican (33). 23 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Oakland Park is Peruvian, Caribbean and tapas — types that are listed here at 5 to 8 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Italian 37 Pizza 36 Mexican 33 Bakery 21 Coffee 19 Sandwiches 18 Seafood 15 Sushi 15 American 15 Chinese 15
The food in Oakland Park
Oakland Park 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 Oakland Park 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 Oakland Park
Oakland Park has a population of about 43,286. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Oakland Park, 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 Oakland Park?
Oakland Park 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. Oakland Park makes up about 2% 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 Oakland Park.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Oakland Park
- Fort Lauderdale, FL — about 3 miles away
- Pompano Beach, FL — about 5 miles away
- Lauderhill, FL — about 6 miles away
- Coconut Creek, FL — about 6 miles away
- North Lauderdale, FL — about 7 miles away
- Margate, FL — about 7 miles away
Campuses in and near Oakland Park
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale
- Broward College
- Nova Southeastern University
- Florida Atlantic University
- St. Thomas 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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