THE SEARCH LEDGER · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA · FOOD & DINING
Every month Jacksonville types 1,371,530 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them.
Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in JUL and lowest in SEP.
SRC: Google Trends relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Jacksonville — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword.
The 20 highest-volume of 636 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is “pizza near me” at $1.30.
| # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restaurants near me | 823,000 | $0.49 | 7 | transactional |
| 2 | breakfast near me | 90,500 | $0.59 | 23 | transactional |
| 3 | pizza near me | 74,000 | $1.30 | 12 | transactional |
| 4 | coffee shops near me | 49,500 | $0.65 | 0 | transactional |
| 5 | bars near me | 40,500 | $0.50 | 0 | transactional |
| 6 | restaurants in jax fl | 27,100 | $0.65 | 9 | commercial |
| 7 | restaurantes en jacksonville | 27,100 | $0.65 | branded | |
| 8 | jax beach restaurants | 9,900 | $0.82 | 12 | commercial |
| 9 | best jax restaurants | 8,100 | $0.59 | 2 | commercial |
| 10 | brunch jax fl | 5,400 | $0.59 | 0 | commercial |
| 11 | food jacksonville fl | 5,400 | $0.90 | 2 | commercial |
| 12 | brunch haus jax beach | 5,400 | $0.34 | 0 | commercial |
| 13 | jacksonville mexican restaurant | 5,400 | $0.56 | 5 | commercial |
| 14 | restaurants in san marco jacksonville | 5,400 | $0.54 | 10 | commercial |
| 15 | italian restaurant jacksonville | 4,400 | $1.12 | 0 | commercial |
| 16 | breakfast jacksonville fl | 4,400 | $0.59 | 1 | commercial |
| 17 | jacksonville seafood | 4,400 | $0.36 | 6 | commercial |
| 18 | downtown jax restaurants | 4,400 | $0.78 | 10 | commercial |
| 19 | restaurants town center jax | 4,400 | $0.85 | commercial | |
| 20 | enza's italian restaurant jacksonville | 3,600 | $0.69 | 6 | commercial |
SRC: DataForSEO, Jacksonville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are Google Ads twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored.
Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the map pack, and who holds page one.
SRC: DataForSEO, Jacksonville metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track.
The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are.
| RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Hawkers Asian Street Food | 4.6 ★ | 7,090 | Asian | YES |
| #2 | River & Post | 4.4 ★ | 6,303 | American | YES |
| #3 | Tulua Bistro Springfield | 4.8 ★ | 5,899 | Brunch | YES |
| #4 | Carmines Pie House | 4.7 ★ | 5,779 | Pizza | YES |
| #5 | The Bearded Pig | 4.6 ★ | 5,467 | Barbecue | YES |
| #6 | Mellow Mushroom Jacksonville - Town Center | 4.6 ★ | 4,896 | Pizza | YES |
| #7 | V Pizza + Sidecar | 4.5 ★ | 4,081 | Pizza | YES |
| #8 | Sweet Pete's Candy | 4.7 ★ | 3,837 | Restaurant | YES |
| #9 | Moon River Pizza | 4.7 ★ | 3,620 | Pizza | YES |
| #10 | Uptown Kitchen & Bar | 4.3 ★ | 3,120 | Brunch | YES |
| #11 | BurgerFi | 4.3 ★ | 3,114 | Hamburger | YES |
| #12 | V Pizza + Flask & Cannon | 4.6 ★ | 3,021 | Pizza | YES |
SRC: Google Maps listings, DataForSEO, Jacksonville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim.
Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for.
SRC: DataForSEO, Jacksonville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set.
People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Jacksonville food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing.
What are some must-try restaurants in Jacksonville, Florida?
What are the best restaurants in San Marco, Jacksonville, FL?
What are the 10 best restaurants?
What are some unique places to eat in Jacksonville, Florida?
What is the 2 hour rule for pizza?
What are some good pizza places in Jacksonville, Florida?
Who has the best pizza deals out right now?
Who has the best pizza in Mechanicsville, VA?
SRC: Google People Also Ask, DataForSEO, Jacksonville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here.
Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today.
Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand.
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HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE
Every figure is collected, not estimated. Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled.
Jacksonville, Florida · Food & Dining · 636 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026