Restaurants in Orange, CA

Orange, a city of 137,941 people, has 725 places listed in this guide, including 566 restaurants, 53 quick service spots, 60 cafes and 35 bars. Mexican is the largest category at 80, followed by Coffee shops and cafes at 64 and Bakeries and donuts at 44 in the listings.

The city's 137,941 residents correspond to 52.6 listed places per 10,000, which is above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide. That reflects the places in this guide, not an exhaustive count of local businesses.

464 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (18), Subway (13), Carl's Jr. (6) and McDonald's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Orange ranks #165 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Orange 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.