Restaurants in Downey, CA

Downey, a city of 109,368 people, has 404 places listed in this guide, including 303 restaurants, 43 quick service spots, 28 cafes and 26 bars. Mexican is the largest category at 50, while Coffee shops and cafes and Bakeries and donuts each sit at 29 in the listings.

Downey's residents see 36.9 listed places per 10,000, which is below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That number reflects this guide's listings rather than an exhaustive count of local venues.

245 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (8), McDonald's (6), Jack in the Box (6) and Subway (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Downey ranks #217 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.