Restaurants in Santa Clara, CA

The guide lists 677 places in Santa Clara, including 520 restaurants, 38 quick service spots, 72 cafes and 31 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead at 78, followed by Indian restaurants at 49, Korean at 41 and bakeries and donuts at 35. Pizza and Japanese each reach 34.

Independent places make up 72 percent of listings here. At 50.9 places per ten thousand residents, Santa Clara is above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

489 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (18), Subway (9), TOGO'S Sandwiches (5) and McDonald's (5).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Santa Clara ranks #79 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Santa Clara 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.