Restaurants in South Gate, CA

South Gate has 263 places listed in this guide, made up of 207 restaurants, 28 quick-service spots, 13 cafes and 13 bars. Mexican is the dominant category at 51, followed by bakeries and donuts at 20, pizza at 15 and Latin American food at 14.

South Gate sits below the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide, with 29.0 places per ten thousand residents.

165 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are WaBa Grill (6), Subway (6), Starbucks (4) and El Pollo Loco (3).

Food in South Gate 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.