Restaurants in Riverside, CA

Riverside lists 1,094 places in this guide, 819 of them restaurants. Quick service accounts for 113, cafes for 76 and bars for 63. Mexican (114), pizza (93) and coffee shops and cafes (80) are the three largest categories in the listings.

Riverside's 33.8 places per ten thousand residents fall under the 41.8 median across all cities.

649 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (25), Subway (25), McDonald's (13) and Jack in the Box (12).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Riverside ranks #228 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.