Restaurants in Elk Grove, CA

This guide lists 505 places in Elk Grove, a city of 182,797 people, including 376 restaurants, 37 quick service spots, 51 cafes and 21 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category counts at 55, followed by Pizza at 43 and Mexican at 32 in the listings.

Elk Grove's residents see 27.6 listed places per 10,000, below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. Those numbers come from the listings in this guide rather than from a full census of local venues.

285 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (15), Subway (10), Mountain Mike's Pizza (7) and McDonald's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Elk Grove ranks #271 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.