Restaurants in Hayward, CA

The guide lists 544 places in Hayward, including 426 restaurants, 45 quick service spots, 36 cafes and 25 bars. Mexican restaurants are the largest category at 64, followed by coffee shops and cafes at 39 and pizza at 38. Bakeries and donuts reach 36.

Independent operators hold 69 percent of listings, and the 34.3 places per ten thousand residents sits below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

374 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (13), Subway (11), Round Table Pizza (6) and Krispy Krunchy Chicken (5).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Hayward ranks #105 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Hayward 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.