Restaurants in Whittier, CA

Across this guide, Whittier has 355 places listed, made up of 286 restaurants, 27 cafes, 21 quick service spots, and 15 bars. Mexican restaurants lead the category counts at 52, ahead of coffee shops and cafes at 31 and pizza at 27. Restaurants are the majority of these listings.

At 41.5 places per ten thousand residents, Whittier sits just under the 41.8 median for all cities in this guide.

238 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (10), Subway (7), Carl's Jr. (3) and McDonald's (3).

Food in Whittier 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.