Restaurants in Bakersfield, CA

Bakersfield lists 1,420 places, and 1,025 are restaurants. Quick service spots total 177, cafes 114 and bars 88. Mexican (184), coffee shops and cafes (116) and pizza (108) are the three largest categories among the places listed in this guide.

Places per ten thousand residents come to 34.0, under the 41.8 median across all cities.

833 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (46), Subway (22), McDonald's (20) and Taco Bell (20).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Bakersfield ranks #245 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Bakersfield 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.