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Where to eat in Sammamish, WA
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A few places to eat in Sammamish
- Pine Lake Ale House Gastropub · 0.1 miles
640 228th Ave NE, Sammamish - YoPlateau Ice Cream Shop · 0.1 miles
22830 NE 8th St #104, Sammamish - Sammamish Cafe and Spirits Comfort Food · 0.1 miles
22850 NE 8th St, Sammamish - Crumbl Cookies - Sammamish Bakery · 0.1 miles
604 228th Ave NE, Sammamish - Thai Trio Thai · 0.1 miles
600 228th Ave NE, Sammamish
The closest few by distance from central Sammamish, 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 Sammamish.
The food scene in Sammamish
Open listings put 39 places to eat within 2 miles of central Sammamish, 30 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (8), sandwiches (4) and Mexican (3). 3 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Sammamish is sushi and sandwiches — types that are listed here at 2 to 5 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 8 Sandwiches 4 Mexican 3 Sushi 3 Vietnamese 2 Ice cream 2
The food in Sammamish
Sammamish 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 Sammamish 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 Sammamish
Sammamish has a population of about 50,169. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Sammamish, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Sammamish has more places to eat than most of the country
Sammamish sits in King County, where the Census counts 2,613 full-service restaurants, 1,782 limited-service places, 977 cafés and snack bars and 343 bars — 5,715 places to eat or drink in all. Sammamish makes up about 2% of the county's population.
At 25.4 food businesses per 10,000 residents against a national median of 19.4, this is one of the better-supplied places in the country. Choice is not the constraint here; narrowing it down is. 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 Seattle, Bellevue, Kent, Renton, Federal Way, Kirkland, Auburn, Redmond and 2 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Sammamish.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Sammamish
- Redmond, WA — about 6 miles away
- Bellevue, WA — about 8 miles away
- Kirkland, WA — about 9 miles away
- Renton, WA — about 12 miles away
- Seattle, WA — about 14 miles away
- Shoreline, WA — about 17 miles away
Campuses in and near Sammamish
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Bellevue College
- University of Washington-Bothell Campus
- University of Washington-Seattle Campus
- Seattle University
- Seattle Central College
- North Seattle College
- South Seattle College
- Shoreline Community College
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
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