Restaurants in Pleasanton, CA

Within this guide, Pleasanton has 436 places listed, including 341 restaurants, 44 cafes, 21 bars, and 16 quick service spots. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category counts at 50, followed by pizza at 31 and Japanese restaurants at 24. The bulk of the list is restaurants.

Independent operators make up 69 percent of listed places here, a figure readers can set against the other cities in this guide.

301 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (10), Subway (9), McDonald's (4) and Taco Bell (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.