Restaurants in Lakewood, CA

This guide includes 283 places in Lakewood, a city of 78,494 people, among them 215 restaurants, 32 quick service spots, 17 cafes and 15 bars. Pizza leads the category counts at 24, with Bakeries and donuts at 22 and Japanese at 20 in the listings.

Lakewood's residents correspond to 36.1 listed places per 10,000, below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That figure is a snapshot of the listings here, not a full count of the city's venues.

153 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (8), Subway (7), McDonald's (6) and El Pollo Loco (4).

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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.