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Where to eat in White Plains, NY
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A few places to eat in White Plains
- Thai Den Restaurant Thai · under 0.1 miles
2 Westchester Ave, White Plains - Gaucho Grill Argentine · under 0.1 miles
1 N Broadway, White Plains - Chop & Go Salad Bar · 0.1 miles
258 Main St, White Plains - Wild Fusion Asian · 0.1 miles
250 Main St, White Plains - Bellos Mexican Grill Mexican · 0.1 miles
8 City Pl, White Plains
The closest few by distance from central White Plains, 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 White Plains.
The food scene in White Plains
Open listings put 341 places to eat within 2 miles of central White Plains, 186 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (27), Italian (27) and Mexican (22). 8 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in White Plains is Colombian, Peruvian and Jamaican — types that are listed here at 5 to 11 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 27 Italian 27 Mexican 22 Deli 19 American 14 Chinese 13 Bakery 12 Sandwiches 10 Burgers 10 Ice cream 9
The food in White Plains
White Plains 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 White Plains 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 White Plains
White Plains has a population of about 57,866. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around White Plains, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is White Plains?
White Plains sits in Westchester County, where the Census counts 1,044 full-service restaurants, 807 limited-service places, 331 cafés and snack bars and 79 bars — 2,261 places to eat or drink in all. White Plains makes up about 6% 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. 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 Yonkers, New Rochelle, Mount Vernon, all within Savor Scout's search radius from White Plains.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near White Plains
- New Rochelle, NY — about 9 miles away
- Mount Vernon, NY — about 9 miles away
- Yonkers, NY — about 10 miles away
- Stamford, CT — about 12 miles away
- Hackensack, NJ — about 18 miles away
- Norwalk, CT — about 19 miles away
Campuses in and near White Plains
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- SUNY Westchester Community College
- Mercy College
- CUNY Lehman College
- Fordham University
- CUNY Bronx Community College
- Yeshiva University
- Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus
- Long Island University
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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