THE SEARCH LEDGER · LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA · FOOD & DINING
Every month Los Angeles types 9,226,050 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 FEB.
SRC: Google Trends relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Los Angeles — 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 2,955 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is “perch bar la” at $2.96.
| # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restaurants near me | 5,000,000 | $0.53 | 7 | transactional |
| 2 | coffee shops near me | 550,000 | $0.58 | 0 | transactional |
| 3 | breakfast near me | 550,000 | $0.47 | 23 | transactional |
| 4 | pizza near me | 450,000 | $1.19 | 12 | transactional |
| 5 | bars near me | 450,000 | $0.37 | 0 | transactional |
| 6 | koreatown restaurants | 40,500 | $0.28 | 0 | commercial |
| 7 | langers deli | 40,500 | $1.05 | branded | |
| 8 | langer's restaurant | 40,500 | $1.05 | 58 | commercial |
| 9 | bludso's bbq la | 33,100 | $1.34 | 14 | commercial |
| 10 | la restaurants | 27,100 | $1.24 | 26 | commercial |
| 11 | earth cafe santa monica | 27,100 | $0.79 | 22 | commercial |
| 12 | felix restaurant los angeles | 27,100 | $0.79 | 52 | commercial |
| 13 | freehand bar los angeles | 27,100 | $2.66 | 23 | commercial |
| 14 | sushi gen la | 27,100 | $0.51 | 2 | commercial |
| 15 | south beverly grill beverly hills | 27,100 | $0.47 | branded | |
| 16 | perch bar la | 22,200 | $2.96 | commercial | |
| 17 | santa monica dining | 22,200 | $0.95 | 26 | commercial |
| 18 | canter's deli | 22,200 | $1.51 | branded | |
| 19 | cafe dulce los angeles | 18,100 | $0.34 | 2 | commercial |
| 20 | dtla restaurants | 14,800 | $1.17 | 14 | commercial |
SRC: DataForSEO, Los Angeles 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 the tracked keyword in this vertical — who Google puts in the map pack, and who holds page one.
SRC: DataForSEO, Los Angeles 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 | Grand Central Market | 4.5 ★ | 37,038 | Food court | YES |
| #2 | Japanese Village Plaza | 4.6 ★ | 14,476 | Shopping mall | YES |
| #3 | Philippe The Original | 4.6 ★ | 12,268 | Sandwich | YES |
| #4 | Bottega Louie | 4.5 ★ | 7,803 | Italian | YES |
| #5 | Bottega Louie | 4.5 ★ | 7,803 | Italian | YES |
| #6 | Bottega Louie | 4.5 ★ | 7,803 | Italian | YES |
| #7 | Perch | 4.4 ★ | 7,677 | French | YES |
| #8 | Perch | 4.4 ★ | 7,677 | French | YES |
| #9 | Perch | 4.4 ★ | 7,677 | French | YES |
| #10 | République | 4.5 ★ | 7,362 | French | YES |
| #11 | Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse | 4.6 ★ | 6,626 | Brazilian | YES |
| #12 | Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse | 4.7 ★ | 6,524 | Brazilian | YES |
SRC: Google Maps listings, DataForSEO, Los Angeles 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, Los Angeles metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set.
People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Los Angeles food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing.
What is the dress code for Delilah Los Angeles?
Who is the owner of Delilah Los Angeles?
How hard is it to get into Delilah?
How much is a table at Delilah LA?
SRC: Google People Also Ask, DataForSEO, Los Angeles 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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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.
Los Angeles, California · Food & Dining · 2,955 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026