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Where to eat in San Leandro, CA
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A few places to eat in San Leandro
- Joe's Pho · under 0.1 miles
1305 Washington Ave Unit D10, San Leandro - Buffet Fortuna Buffet · under 0.1 miles
1330 Washington Ave, San Leandro - Hong Kong Chef Chinese · under 0.1 miles
1371 E 14th St Unit d, San Leandro - Sushi Musashi Sushi · 0.1 miles
1275 Washington Ave, San Leandro - Taqueria Los Pericos #5 Mexican · 0.1 miles
1389 E 14th St, San Leandro
The closest few by distance from central San Leandro, 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 San Leandro.
The food scene in San Leandro
Open listings put 259 places to eat within 2 miles of central San Leandro, 78 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (30), Chinese (21) and pizza (13). 15 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in San Leandro is Salvadoran, Korean and Cajun & Creole — types that are listed here at 4 to 7 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Mexican 30 Chinese 21 Pizza 13 Bakery 13 Sandwiches 10 Burgers 9 Ice cream 7 Sushi 7 Vietnamese 6 Coffee 6
The food in San Leandro
San Leandro 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 San Leandro 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 San Leandro
San Leandro has a population of about 87,965. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around San Leandro, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is San Leandro?
San Leandro sits in Alameda County, where the Census counts 1,576 full-service restaurants, 1,463 limited-service places, 591 cafés and snack bars and 154 bars — 3,784 places to eat or drink in all. San Leandro makes up about 5% 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. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
Those county figures also cover Oakland, Fremont, Hayward, Berkeley, Livermore, Alameda, Pleasanton, Union City and 2 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from San Leandro.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near San Leandro
- Alameda, CA — about 5 miles away
- Hayward, CA — about 6 miles away
- Oakland, CA — about 8 miles away
- San Ramon, CA — about 10 miles away
- Danville, CA — about 11 miles away
- Union City, CA — about 11 miles away
Campuses in and near San Leandro
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Merritt College
- Chabot College
- California State University-East Bay
- Laney College
- College of Alameda
- University of California-Berkeley
- Berkeley City College
- City College of San Francisco
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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