Restaurants in Temecula, CA

The guide lists 665 places in Temecula, with 466 restaurants, 51 quick-service spots, 52 cafes and 76 bars. Mexican is the top category at 60, followed by coffee shops and cafes at 53 and bars at 45, while pizza and breweries each reach 39.

Temecula is well above the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide, with 59.1 places per ten thousand residents. The entries are a useful reference for a wider Riverside County look.

404 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (22), Subway (7), McDonald's (6) and Jack in the Box (5).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Temecula ranks #213 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Temecula 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.