# Food & Dining search demand in Seattle THE SEARCH LEDGER · SEATTLE, WASHINGTON · FOOD & DINING Every month Seattle types 2,071,970 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/seattle/food-dining#colophon) 842 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Seattle metro, Sep 8, 2026 2,071,970 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Seattle metro, Sep 8, 2026 $1.0M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.18 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Seattle metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Seattle searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in AUG and lowest in FEB. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 70, February 60, March 72, April 72, May 84, June 85, July 96, August 100, September 83, October 77, November 72, December 70. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Seattle — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Seattle pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 842 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“seattle pizza and bar”** at $0.86. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 1,000,000 | $0.33 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | breakfast near me | 110,000 | $0.22 | 23 | transactional | | 3 | bars near me | 110,000 | $0.31 | 0 | transactional | | 4 | coffee shops near me | 90,500 | $0.29 | 0 | transactional | | 5 | pizza near me | 60,500 | $0.80 | 12 | transactional | | 6 | sea wolf bakery seattle | 22,200 | $0.21 | 0 | commercial | | 7 | six seven restaurant seattle | 18,100 | $0.36 | 4 | commercial | | 8 | seattle pizza and bar | 14,800 | $0.86 | 0 | commercial | | 9 | bacco cafe seattle | 14,800 | $0.13 | 1 | commercial | | 10 | dahlia bakery in seattle | 14,800 | $0.24 | | commercial | | 11 | petit pierre bakery seattle | 14,800 | $0.41 | 5 | commercial | | 12 | tilikum cafe seattle | 14,800 | $0.35 | 6 | commercial | | 13 | wild ginger restaurant seattle | 14,800 | $0.37 | 16 | commercial | | 14 | top restaurants seattle | 12,100 | $0.52 | 7 | commercial | | 15 | cactus restaurant seattle | 12,100 | $0.40 | 9 | commercial | | 16 | lost lake cafe seattle | 12,100 | $0.17 | 15 | commercial | | 17 | monsoon restaurant seattle | 12,100 | $0.29 | 9 | commercial | | 18 | nectar bar seattle | 12,100 | $0.11 | | commercial | | 19 | a pizza mart seattle wa | 9,900 | $0.35 | 0 | commercial | | 20 | cafe campagne seattle | 9,900 | $0.14 | 2 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Seattle 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 Seattle food & dining results Live position tracking for the tracked keyword 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 · $0.33 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Yard House 4.4★ 6,500 - 2 Elephant & Castle 4.5★ 3,400 - 3 1928 Tap and Grill 4.1★ 217 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 m.yelp.com - 2 seattle.eater.com - 3 ubereats.com LOCAL - 4 tripadvisor.com - 5 reddit.com Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Seattle 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 Seattle 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 | Pike Place Market | 4.6 ★ | 79,774 | Restaurant | YES | | #2 | The Crab Pot Seattle | 4.2 ★ | 11,923 | Seafood | YES | | #3 | The Crab Pot Seattle | 4.2 ★ | 11,923 | Seafood | YES | | #4 | Dick's Drive-In | 4.4 ★ | 9,696 | Fast Food | YES | | #5 | Dick's Drive-In | 4.6 ★ | 9,669 | Hamburger | YES | | #6 | Ivar's Acres of Clams | 4.3 ★ | 9,536 | Seafood | YES | | #7 | Ivar's Acres of Clams | 4.3 ★ | 9,536 | Seafood | YES | | #8 | The 5 Point Cafe | 4.3 ★ | 9,047 | Diner | YES | | #9 | The 5 Point Cafe | 4.3 ★ | 9,047 | Diner | YES | | #10 | The 5 Point Cafe | 4.3 ★ | 9,047 | Cafe | YES | | #11 | The 5 Point Cafe | 4.3 ★ | 9,047 | Diner | YES | | #12 | The 5 Point Cafe | 4.3 ★ | 9,047 | Diner | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Seattle 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 Seattle 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. saffron grill seattle 8,100/mo il bistro seattle 6,600/mo petra bistro seattle 5,400/mo bluwater bistro seattle 5,400/mo the grill from ipanema seattle 4,400/mo good coffee seattle 3,600/mo met grill seattle 1,900/mo the good coffee company seattle 1,300/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Seattle metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Seattle asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Seattle food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-eat places in Seattle? What are some of Seattle's hidden gem restaurants? What is the best place to have lunch in Seattle? What food is Seattle known for? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Seattle 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 Seattle search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Seattle, Washington · Food & Dining · 842 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 842 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/seattle/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