Restaurants in Sacramento, CA

In this guide, Sacramento has 2,394 places, and 1,724 are restaurants. Cafes number 248, bars 228 and quick service spots 149. Coffee shops and cafes (257), Mexican (205) and bars (201) lead the categories among the listings, which reflect the places in this guide only.

Sacramento sits above the median at 44.7 places per ten thousand residents, against 41.8 across all cities.

1,716 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (57), Subway (44), Round Table Pizza (19) and McDonald's (17).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Sacramento ranks #82 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Sacramento 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.