# Food & Dining search demand in Tampa-St. Petersburg THE SEARCH LEDGER · TAMPA-ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA · FOOD & DINING Every month Tampa-St. Petersburg types 3,166,590 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/tampa-st-petersburg/food-dining#colophon) 743 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026 3,166,590 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026 $2.2M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.65 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Tampa-St. Petersburg searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in MAR and lowest in SEP. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 82, February 94, March 100, April 94, May 95, June 82, July 92, August 84, September 70, October 79, November 81, December 82. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Tampa-St. Petersburg — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Tampa-St. Petersburg pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 743 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“columbian restaurant ybor”** at $5.54. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 1,830,000 | $0.51 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | breakfast near me | 246,000 | $0.70 | 23 | transactional | | 3 | pizza near me | 246,000 | $1.29 | 12 | transactional | | 4 | coffee shops near me | 135,000 | $0.51 | 0 | transactional | | 5 | bars near me | 110,000 | $0.34 | 0 | transactional | | 6 | tampa restaurants | 49,500 | $1.05 | 32 | commercial | | 7 | wright's deli tampa | 27,100 | $2.54 | | branded | | 8 | best restaurants tampa | 18,100 | $1.00 | 6 | commercial | | 9 | american social bar & kitchen tampa | 14,800 | $0.74 | | commercial | | 10 | china buffet tampa | 14,800 | $0.41 | 1 | commercial | | 11 | la teresita restaurant tampa | 14,800 | $0.75 | 1 | commercial | | 12 | tampa brunch | 12,100 | $1.00 | 13 | commercial | | 13 | columbia restaurant tampa | 12,100 | $1.78 | 22 | commercial | | 14 | kona grill tampa fl | 12,100 | $0.33 | | branded | | 15 | bern steakhouse tampa | 12,100 | $4.48 | | commercial | | 16 | downtown tampa restaurants | 9,900 | $1.19 | 7 | commercial | | 17 | ybor restaurants | 8,100 | $0.32 | 28 | commercial | | 18 | bahama breeze restaurant tampa | 8,100 | $0.27 | 17 | commercial | | 19 | breakfast in tampa fl | 6,600 | $0.58 | 4 | commercial | | 20 | columbian restaurant ybor | 6,600 | $5.54 | | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg 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 1,830,000/mo · $0.51 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Naked Farmer 4.8★ 2,500 - 2 The Pearl Tampa 4.5★ 1,600 - 3 Malio's 4.5★ 1,500 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 visittampabay.com - 2 yelp.com - 3 tripadvisor.com - 4 ubereats.com - 5 opentable.com pizza near me 246,000/mo · $1.29 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 Tampa Pizza Company Downtown 4.3★ 2,200 - 2 Street Crust 4.7★ 369 - 3 Eddie And Sam's N.Y Pizza 4.6★ 8,000 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 locations.papajohns.com - 2 yelp.com - 3 locations.pizzahut.com LOCAL - 4 flipperspizzaco.com LOCAL - 5 southtampa.westshorepizza.com LOCAL Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg 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 | Columbia Restaurant | 4.6 ★ | 22,252 | Spanish | YES | | #2 | Ulele | 4.6 ★ | 11,736 | American | YES | | #3 | Eddie And Sam's N.Y Pizza | 4.6 ★ | 8,026 | Pizza | YES | | #4 | Eddie And Sam's N.Y Pizza | 4.6 ★ | 8,026 | Pizza | YES | | #5 | Oxford Exchange | 4.6 ★ | 6,940 | American | YES | | #6 | American Social - Bar & Kitchen | 4.3 ★ | 5,469 | American | YES | | #7 | Hattricks | 4.4 ★ | 4,788 | Grill | YES | | #8 | Due Amici Pizza & Pasta Bar | 4.7 ★ | 3,814 | Italian | YES | | #9 | Columbia Cafe at the Tampa Bay History Center | 4.4 ★ | 3,638 | Spanish | YES | | #10 | Yeoman's Topgolf Swing Suite | 4.5 ★ | 3,614 | British | YES | | #11 | ABC Pizza House | 4.6 ★ | 3,543 | Pizza | YES | | #12 | Harpoon Harry's Crab House - Tampa | 4.3 ★ | 3,522 | Seafood | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg 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. wright's deli tampa 27,100/mo kona grill tampa fl 12,100/mo jackson bistro tampa 6,600/mo brunchery tampa 2,400/mo whataburger tampa 1,900/mo coffee tampa 1,000/mo grillsmith tampa 880/mo best barbecue in tampa 590/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Tampa-St. Petersburg asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Tampa-St. Petersburg food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-eat places in Tampa? Where to eat in Quincy, FL? What are some of the best affordable restaurants in Tampa? What are some of the best lunch spots in Tampa? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? Where is the best pizza in Tampa? Who has the best pizza deals out right now? Who has the best pizza in New Port Richey? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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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. Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida · Food & Dining · 743 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 743 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. 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