Restaurants in Alameda, CA

In this guide, Alameda lists 394 places in this guide, including 283 restaurants, 40 bars, 37 cafes, and 18 quick service spots. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category counts at 41, with bars at 30 and Japanese restaurants at 27. Most of the listings are restaurants.

Independent operators make up 76 percent of listed places here, a share readers can weigh against the other cities in this guide.

298 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (9), Round Table Pizza (5), Subway (4) and MOD Pizza (3).

Food in Alameda by cuisine

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Place data from the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org), which includes data from Meta, Microsoft and Foursquare, used under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses. Restaurants open, close and move; check with the restaurant before you go. Data refreshed 2026-10-11.