Restaurants in Pasadena, CA

Among the 988 places listed for Pasadena are 754 restaurants, 44 quick service spots, 101 cafes and 64 bars. Coffee shops and cafes top the category count at 112, followed by Mexican at 76, Japanese at 68 and bars at 59. Bakeries and donuts reach 58.

Independent operators hold 74 percent of listings. At 72.0 places per ten thousand residents, Pasadena sits well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

731 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (21), Subway (8), Domino's Pizza (6) and Blaze Pizza (4).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Pasadena ranks #64 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Pasadena 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.