Restaurants in Torrance, CA

Listed in this guide are 779 places in Torrance, including 595 restaurants, 41 quick service spots, 74 cafes and 47 bars. Japanese restaurants are the leading category at 99, followed by coffee shops and cafes at 83, bakeries and donuts at 46 and desserts and ice cream at 42. Mexican restaurants reach 33.

Of all listings, 62 percent are independent. At 55.8 places per ten thousand residents, Torrance is well above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

481 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (24), Subway (8), Chick-fil-A (5) and Jack in the Box (5).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Torrance ranks #197 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Torrance 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.