# Food & Dining search demand in San Francisco Bay Area THE SEARCH LEDGER · SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA · FOOD & DINING Every month San Francisco Bay Area types 2,315,030 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/san-francisco-bay-area/food-dining#colophon) 895 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), San Francisco Bay Area metro, Sep 8, 2026 2,315,030 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), San Francisco Bay Area metro, Sep 8, 2026 $1.0M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.11 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), San Francisco Bay Area metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When San Francisco Bay Area searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in JUN and lowest in FEB. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 84, February 75, March 88, April 86, May 99, June 100, July 100, August 90, September 86, October 89, November 84, December 76. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in San Francisco Bay Area — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What San Francisco Bay Area pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 895 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“goldenboy pizza”** at $1.24. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 1,000,000 | $0.27 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | bars near me | 165,000 | $0.24 | 0 | transactional | | 3 | arsicault bakery | 110,000 | $0.24 | 9 | commercial | | 4 | breakfast near me | 110,000 | $0.24 | 23 | transactional | | 5 | coffee shops near me | 90,500 | $0.25 | 0 | transactional | | 6 | tony's neapolitan pizza | 60,500 | $1.02 | 13 | commercial | | 7 | pizza near me | 60,500 | $0.55 | 12 | transactional | | 8 | boudins bakery | 49,500 | $0.62 | 11 | commercial | | 9 | goldenboy pizza | 33,100 | $1.24 | 22 | commercial | | 10 | zuni cafe san francisco | 27,100 | $0.68 | 21 | commercial | | 11 | balboa cafe san francisco | 22,200 | $0.15 | 0 | commercial | | 12 | vesuvio bar san francisco | 22,200 | $0.10 | 6 | commercial | | 13 | john's grill san francisco | 22,200 | $0.28 | | branded | | 14 | pinecrest diner san francisco | 18,100 | $0.82 | 1 | commercial | | 15 | rooh restaurant san francisco | 14,800 | $0.23 | 16 | commercial | | 16 | colibri restaurant san francisco | 12,100 | $0.64 | 5 | commercial | | 17 | absinthe bar san francisco | 9,900 | $0.96 | 6 | commercial | | 18 | anchor oyster bar san francisco | 9,900 | $0.43 | 0 | commercial | | 19 | honey honey cafe san francisco | 9,900 | $0.33 | | commercial | | 20 | nob hill cafes | 9,900 | $0.62 | 0 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), San Francisco Bay Area metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the San Francisco Bay Area food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 1,000,000/mo · $0.27 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Pizza Zone N Grill 4★ 411 - 2 Van Ness Cafe & Gyros 4.5★ 570 - 3 Grubstake Diner 4.1★ 1,200 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 yelp.com - 2 opentable.com - 3 sf.eater.com - 4 ubereats.com LOCAL - 5 tripadvisor.com tony's neapolitan pizza 60,500/mo · $1.02 CPC · difficulty 13 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 tonyspizzanapoletana.com LOCAL - 2 yelp.com - 3 instagram.com LOCAL - 4 tonygemignani.com - 5 en.wikipedia.org Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), San Francisco Bay Area 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 food & dining businesses competing in San Francisco Bay Area 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 | Boudin Bakery | 4.4 ★ | 18,601 | Bakery | YES | | #2 | Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse | 4.7 ★ | 12,789 | Brazilian | YES | | #3 | Tony's Pizza Napoletana | 4.5 ★ | 10,627 | Pizza | YES | | #4 | Texas Roadhouse | 4.4 ★ | 7,703 | Steak | YES | | #5 | House of Prime Rib | 4.6 ★ | 7,468 | Steak | YES | | #6 | La Taqueria | 4.5 ★ | 7,449 | Mexican | YES | | #7 | Super Duper Burgers | 4.4 ★ | 6,925 | Restaurant | YES | | #8 | Brenda's French Soul Food | 4.5 ★ | 6,385 | Southern | YES | | #9 | Brenda's French Soul Food | 4.5 ★ | 6,385 | Southern | YES | | #10 | Brenda's French Soul Food | 4.5 ★ | 6,385 | Southern | YES | | #11 | Brenda's French Soul Food | 4.5 ★ | 6,385 | Southern | YES | | #12 | Tartine Bakery | 4.5 ★ | 5,967 | Bakery | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), San Francisco Bay Area metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands San Francisco Bay Area searches by name 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. john's grill san francisco 22,200/mo tadich grill san francisco 2,400/mo bistro boudin san francisco 1,900/mo pizzahacker bagelmacher sf 1,600/mo sam's grill san francisco 1,000/mo rooftop san francisco 590/mo wasabi bistro san francisco 480/mo blue bottle coffee san fran 390/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), San Francisco Bay Area metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What San Francisco Bay Area asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from San Francisco Bay Area food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What is the 30/30/30 rule for restaurants? What are the hottest restaurants in San Francisco right now? Where to eat in Wilkes Barre, PA? What are some must-try restaurants in the Bay Area? What's the best pizza at Tony's? Is Tony's Pizza Napoletana the same as Slice House? Who is the owner of Tony's Pizza Napoletana? What is Tony's Pizza Napoletana's ranking in San Francisco? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), San Francisco Bay Area metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More San Francisco Bay Area search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. San Francisco Bay Area, California · Food & Dining · 895 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 895 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. If a number here is wrong, [tell us](https://seobandwagon.com/contact). --- Canonical page: https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/san-francisco-bay-area/food-dining Every metro: https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo#cities Data reuse license: https://seobandwagon.com/data-license Site overview for agents: https://seobandwagon.com/llms.txt · API docs: https://seobandwagon.com/docs/api