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Where to eat in Redwood City, CA
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A few places to eat in Redwood City
- La Casita Chilanga Mexican · 0.1 miles
761 El Camino Real, Redwood City - I Dumpling Chinese · 0.1 miles
2660 Broadway, Redwood City - Bangkok Bay Thai Cuisine Thai · 0.1 miles
825 El Camino Real, Redwood City - Estampas Peruanas Peruvian · 0.1 miles
715 El Camino Real, Redwood City - Redwood Bistro Asian Fusion · 0.1 miles
711 El Camino Real, Redwood City
The closest few by distance from central Redwood City, 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 Redwood City.
The food scene in Redwood City
Open listings put 430 places to eat within 2 miles of central Redwood City, 97 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (55), pizza (32) and bakery (19). 20 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Redwood City is gelato, Hawaiian and Mediterranean — types that are listed here at 4 to 10 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Mexican 55 Pizza 32 Bakery 19 American 15 Sandwiches 15 Chinese 14 Italian 14 Sushi 13 Coffee 13 Mediterranean 13
The food in Redwood City
Redwood City 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 Redwood City
Redwood City has a population of about 80,872. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Redwood City, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Redwood City?
Redwood City sits in San Mateo County, where the Census counts 792 full-service restaurants, 607 limited-service places, 297 cafés and snack bars and 50 bars — 1,746 places to eat or drink in all. Redwood City makes up about 11% of the county's population.
That is 23.1 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 Daly City, San Mateo, South San Francisco, San Bruno, Pacifica, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Redwood City.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Redwood City
- Palo Alto, CA — about 6 miles away
- San Mateo, CA — about 7 miles away
- Mountain View, CA — about 11 miles away
- Newark, CA — about 11 miles away
- Union City, CA — about 13 miles away
- Sunnyvale, CA — about 14 miles away
Campuses in and near Redwood City
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Canada College
- Stanford University
- College of San Mateo
- Foothill College
- Chabot College
- Mission College
- California State University-East Bay
- De Anza College
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
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