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Where to eat in Puyallup, WA
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A few places to eat in Puyallup
- Don's Drive-In Burger · 0.1 miles
925 S Meridian, Puyallup - Kyoto Teriyaki Restaurant Japanese · 0.2 miles
513 S Meridian, Puyallup - Bourbon Street Bar and Grill Cajun and Creole · 0.2 miles
401 S Meridian, Puyallup - Fisher Scones Bakery · 0.2 miles
110 9th Ave SW, Puyallup - Giorgio's Greek Cafe Greek · 0.2 miles
328 S Meridian, Puyallup
The closest few by distance from central Puyallup, 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 Puyallup.
The food scene in Puyallup
Open listings put 121 places to eat within 2 miles of central Puyallup, 32 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (11), Mexican (7) and sandwiches (6). 16 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Puyallup is Japanese — a type that is listed here at about 3 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 11 Coffee 10 Mexican 7 Sandwiches 6 Bakery 6 Ice cream 5 American 5 Japanese 5 Burgers 4 Diner 3
The food in Puyallup
Puyallup 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 Puyallup 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 Puyallup
Puyallup has a population of about 38,609. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Puyallup, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Puyallup is a little thinner on options than average
Puyallup sits in Pierce County, where the Census counts 633 full-service restaurants, 563 limited-service places, 285 cafés and snack bars and 90 bars — 1,571 places to eat or drink in all. Puyallup makes up about 4% of the county's population.
That is 17.1 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. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
Those county figures also cover Tacoma, Lakewood, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Puyallup.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Puyallup
- Tacoma, WA — about 8 miles away
- Auburn, WA — about 9 miles away
- Federal Way, WA — about 9 miles away
- Lakewood, WA — about 11 miles away
- Kent, WA — about 14 miles away
- Burien, WA — about 20 miles away
Campuses in and near Puyallup
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
- Bates Technical College
- Green River College
- Tacoma Community College
- Highline College
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
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