Restaurants in Stockton, CA

Stockton's guide lists 886 places, and 659 are restaurants. Quick service spots number 93, cafes 74 and bars 47. Mexican (123), coffee shops and cafes (77) and pizza (64) are the three largest categories among the places listed in this guide, which is a partial view of the city.

Places per ten thousand residents come to 27.3, well under the 41.8 median across all cities.

567 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (24), Subway (21), McDonald's (13) and Taco Bell (10).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Stockton ranks #164 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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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.