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Where to eat in Scranton, PA
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A few places to eat in Scranton
- Chef Von and Mom Comfort Food · under 0.1 miles
501 Linden St, Scranton - DaVinci Pizza on the Square Pizza · under 0.1 miles
505 Linden St, Scranton - Catch 21 Seafood - Steak & More Steakhouse · under 0.1 miles
301 N Washington Ave, Scranton - Backyard Ale House Gastropub · 0.1 miles
523 Linden St, Scranton - Cafe Sevda · 0.1 miles
323 N Washington Ave, Scranton
The closest few by distance from central Scranton, 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 Scranton.
The food scene in Scranton
Open listings put 286 places to eat within 2 miles of central Scranton, 78 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (44), Italian (25) and bar & grill (19). 17 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Scranton is Italian, Latin American and bar & grill — types that are listed here at 2 to 3 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 44 Italian 25 Bar & grill 19 Bakery 15 Sandwiches 13 Chinese 11 Mexican 11 Coffee 11 American 10 Diner 10
The food in Scranton
Scranton 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 Scranton 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 Scranton
Scranton has a population of about 75,806. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Scranton, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Scranton?
Scranton sits in Lackawanna County, where the Census counts 205 full-service restaurants, 173 limited-service places, 38 cafés and snack bars and 54 bars — 470 places to eat or drink in all. Scranton makes up about 35% of the county's population.
That is 21.8 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.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
What are you craving in Scranton?
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Near Scranton
- Wilkes-Barre, PA — about 16 miles away
- Binghamton, NY — about 49 miles away
- Allentown, PA — about 56 miles away
- Bethlehem, PA — about 56 miles away
- Reading, PA — about 75 miles away
- Plainfield, NJ — about 84 miles away
Campuses in and near Scranton
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
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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