Restaurants in Santa Rosa, CA

In Santa Rosa, the guide includes 777 places: 536 restaurants, 53 quick service spots, 79 cafes and 102 bars. Mexican restaurants lead at 84, with coffee shops and cafes at 81 and breweries at 55. Bars as a category reach 54, and pizza follows at 45.

Independent-owned places are 72 percent of listings. The 43.8 places per ten thousand residents sits slightly above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

562 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (23), Subway (11), Round Table Pizza (8) and Taco Bell (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Santa Rosa ranks #77 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Santa Rosa 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.