Restaurants in San Jose, CA

San Jose's 997,368 residents are represented by 3,729 places listed in this guide, split into 2,868 restaurants, 236 quick service spots, 277 cafes and 213 bars. Mexican leads the category counts at 388, followed by Coffee shops and cafes at 302 and Pizza at 214.

San Jose shows 37.4 listed places per 10,000 residents, which sits below the 41.8 median for every city in this guide. That density reflects the listings in this guide rather than a full count of the city's venues.

2,648 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (90), Subway (57), McDonald's (32) and Round Table Pizza (27).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, San Jose ranks #89 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in San Jose 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.