I responded to another thread about burger places and suddenly realized how many food places I have in my “neighborhood.” I’m going to define it as an area I could walk to if needed (I’m a 50 year old out of shape guy, so under a mile or two without any major roadways without sidewalks)… places I could hop in my car and be ordering in under 5 minutes. I could easily double the list if I moved the boundary to 10 minutes. Surprisingly I live in suburbia in a tree filled lot that is in a fully residential area… we just happen to be very close to a few commercial areas. Here is my list… anyone have more?
McDonald’s
Taco Bell
Steak n’ Shake
Fazoli’s
Subway
Chinese Buffet
Einstein’s Bagels
Panera Bread
Duncan Donuts
Domino’s
Pizza King
Local Hot Dog/Italian Beef place
Donato’s
Arby’s
Mellow Mushroom Pizza
Pizza Hut
KFC
McAllister’s Deli
Carry out Chinese Place
Pseudo Irish Pub
Gourmet Pizza Place
Trendy Lunch/Brunch place I’ve never been to
Noodle’s and Co.
Hot Box Pizza
Wendy’s
Starbuck’s
Jimmy John’s
Macaroni Grill
Nice sit down Chinese Place
2 Grocery stores with Deli/Carry Out areas
Yeah, but I live in Manhattan so that probably shouldn’t count. 
I can probably get up to that amount in just a two-block radius of my apartment.
Yeah, but they probably aren’t nearly as good as the fine dining establishments I listed.
I can’t even come close to the OP, but the exercise sounds fun.
McDonald’s
Hardee’s
Arby’s
Subway
Popeye’s
Pizza Hut
Taco Bell
a Chinese place
a wings place
a Mexican place (last time it was open)
Little Caesar’s
a seafood place
and probably at least three others I have never been in, and at least two that closed in the past few months that I did frequent.
McDonalds
Applebees
Chilis
Q’doba
Japanese hibachi
Cold Stone Creamery
Outback
Pizza Hut
Steak & Shake
Caribou Coffee
Panera
Chipotle
Marco’s pizza
Local Italian place
3 Subways
Bob Evans
Dos Coronas
Arby’s
Wendy’s
Guy’s Pizza
Grocery store with takeout
Penn Station
Papa John’s
Pulp (smoothies)
Some sort of BBQ joint
“Pacific Steak and Sea Food - Coming Soon!”
Chik Fil A
Mr. Hero
Oriental Dragon
And yeah that about doubles if we say 10 mins.
Just two:
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:D. We’re about 8 miles from the nearest bar and grill and 12 miles from a fast food joint.
Well, I’m not going to list them, the list is too long.
Using GrubHub, pickup only within one mile, brings me 42 restaurants. That’s just pickup only and just who’s signed up with GrubHub. So, not counting fast food places.
Delivery available is more like 200 restaurants, and I don’t have to leave the house at all…
Lets see, we live in a bedroom community. There is a walking path through the park through the park on which we could get to the commercial area by foot. It would be a three-mile walk through the woods though, so we always drive. We have:
Arbys
Dairy Queen
McDonalds
Subway
Dominos
And also, in local flavor:
An old folks’ home cookin’ place
Two mexican restaurants
A chinese restaurant
A gastropub
An independent pizza joint
The only “neighborhood food” available to me is whatever I can bag (or scoop up off the roadside) for an old-fashioned Kentucky-style burgoo.
There are dozens of restaurants just outside the five-minute-by-car cutoff from my place. The ones in range are:
Chain:
McDonald’s
Dairy Queen
Combined Taco Bell/Long John Silver’s
Popeye’s Chicken.
Indie:
Vietnamese Pho joint (5 min walk)
3 Pizza joints (1 in 5 min walk range)
Chinese joint
Mexican seafood joint
Donut shop
Tex-Mex joint.
Walking?. 0
Driving 5 minutes. 0
Driving 10 minutes. 1
For good reason we just spent lots of bucks remodeling the kitchen.
We have all the usual suspects. There seem to be an awful lot of suburban moms ladies lunch cafes, you know - salads, or half a sandwich and a cup of soup for about $8. I like to hang out in Wegmans cafe, there’s no end to the offerings. And there are quite a few “Mexican” places ranging from plain cheese quesadillas to overstuffed burritos. All these, I have to drive to. I could walk up to the On The Go gas station for a sub sandwich or hot dog, though.
Within 2 minutes walk: 7/11, Subway, Der W, a Thai place and a lousy Chinese fast food joint that I would never eat at.
Within 10 minutes walk: Dunkin’ Donuts, Togos, McDonalds, Starbucks, Burger King, Safeway.
Within 10 minute drive: just about anything.
Thankfully there are only three fast-food joints in this neighborhood, and two of those I would have to drive to: Subway, Papa John’s, and DQ. I don’t frequent any of them, because there is much better food to be had:
Jade: five star Vietnamese for about $10
Mekong: ditto
An excellent Thai place
Two four star Italian restaurants
A four star Greek place
Three five star sushi joints
A barbecue shack
A perogie food cart
Three local pizza places, all good
A southwestern restaurant
A so-so Mexican place
A frozen yogurt bar
Several pubs
A great bakery that serves deli lunch and breakfast stuff
There are others, but you get the drift.
10 mile radius: None
20 mile radius: Arby’s, McDonald’s (2), Subway, Taco Bell, Culver’s, Pizza Hut. No longer Hardee’s, KFC or even Applebee’s, all closed.
30 mile radius: same as 20
40 mile radius: same as 20
50 mile radius: same as 20
In all fairness, most of that 50 mile circle is water. Haven’t seen any floating fast food joints yet. It would be nice – maybe they could pull up to shore and bring the burgers to me.
ETA: I have limited my list to fast food and chains. We certainly have many sit-down, locally owned, one-of-a-kind restaurants and bars. God, do we have bars, and many of them have good food.
There are lots of restaurants within a 5 minute drive of my house, including at least a dozen Korean restaurants (Persian restaurants, Chinese restaurants, sub shops and pizza shops rounding out the top 5).
I live in NJ.
So basically Italian, Italian, Italian, Italian, Italian plus good Chinese and your standard Wendy’s and McD’s. I’m not complaining. Nothing like a good pasta e fagiole soup, a perfectly prepared pizza with real mozzerella or some amazing dim sum on a Sunday afternoon. A little further afield we have a nice selection of Indian buffets.
I live in a British village. There are two pubs that serve standard pub food, and a Chinese takeaway.
I live in a college town. A search on google maps gave me thirty-eight restaurants in town and I think they missed a lot of them.
In a town in southeastern MA with about 50 food places altogether, I have ten within 1 mile walking distance, including a supermarket with an eat-in deli/coffee shop area:
Franchise:
Dunkin Donuts
McDonald’s (actually across the bridge in the city across the river)
Supermarket w/eat-in deli:
Market Basket (also across the river)
Independent:
Galaxy Pizza House
Seafood Hut (almost year round, but closed about 2 months in winter, outdoor seating only)
Yummy’s Ice Cream (seasonal, takeout window only)
Dog Palace (hotdogs, seasonal, outdoor seating only)
Just Ray’s Restaurant
Vila Verde (Portuguese)
Vivvy’s Hotdogs Ice Cream & More
There are also three bars within that distance that served limited fare.