Bay Area Diner

Well, this was harder to find articles and information on, probably because Oakland is not exactly the kind of tourist destination that San Francisco is.  But I did locate a sight called homeinsight.com, which profiles various cities for people who might be considering moving to an area.  According to that, there are 8,807 restaurants “within 15 miles.”  Keeping in mind that Oakland is actually a larger city than San Francisco, it still sounds like a huge number compared to San Francisco’s 4,000-5,000.  Clearly  the “within 15 miles” stretches things a lot.  So let’s compare to the same source’s calculation for San Francisco.   They give 8, 329 for San Francisco “within 15 miles.”  So, being very imprecise, we can probably halve the 8, 807 to say that Oakland also has between 4,000 and 5,000 restaurants.