Restaurants in Oakland, CA

Oakland's 443,554 residents have 2,074 places listed in this guide, including 1,495 restaurants, 91 quick service spots, 227 cafes and 228 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category counts at 235, ahead of Bars at 211 and Mexican at 163.

With 46.8 listed places per 10,000 residents, Oakland sits above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. Those figures describe the listings in the guide, not an exhaustive count of the city's businesses.

1,795 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (21), Subway (13), McDonald's (12) and Krispy Krunchy Chicken (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Oakland ranks #4 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Oakland by cuisine

Own a restaurant in Oakland?

1,823 of the 2,074 places here (88%) list a website. When a guest searches for food in Oakland and lands on a delivery app instead of your site, the app takes a commission on the order and shows them your competitors. Servestack gives you your own ordering site with zero commission, POS sync and loyalty, and Studio makes the menus, flyers and posts to promote it. See what you would keep with the commission savings calculator, or browse the restaurant marketing guides.

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.