Restaurants in Modesto, CA

Restaurants make up 551 of the 776 places listed for Modesto in this guide. Quick service spots number 86, cafes 71 and bars 54. Mexican (95), coffee shops and cafes (74) and pizza (59) are the three largest categories among the listings.

Modesto comes in at 35.2 places per ten thousand residents, under the 41.8 median across all cities.

462 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (28), Subway (15), McDonald's (13) and Jack in the Box (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Modesto ranks #227 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Modesto 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.