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Top 10 Restaurant and dining companies based in San Diego, United States
RevenueBase identified 26 restaurant and dining companies headquartered in San Diego, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 704 professional contacts across them, including 81 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers restaurant and dining companies headquartered in San Diego, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 10 largest restaurant and dining companies based in San Diego, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “David and Lesley Cohn and their Family of Restaurants have provided the highest level of hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Urban Kitchen Group is a culinary collection that seamlessly unites exceptional dining and captivating design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TRUST Restaurant Group creates a food and beverage experience that’s right for you and your guests.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OMG Hospitality Group was founded in 2008 by CEO Eric Leitstein on the key building blocks of innovation, initiative, leadership, and devotion to the craft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SDCM is a nationally acclaimed, San Diego based restaurant group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Parq has brought together the leaders in the restaurant and nightclub industries to bring you an unparalleled nightlife experience on 6th and Broadway in the Gaslamp district of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Puffer Malarkey Collective is a San Diego-based restaurant group founded by Brian Malarkey and Christopher Puffer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GBOD Hospitality Group was founded in 2012 by brothers Raymond and Patrick Davoudi with the opening of Mezé Greek Fusion in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Urge American Gastropub is a restaurants company based out of 16761 BERNARDO CENTER DR, San Diego, California, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: restaurant and dining companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names restaurant and dining companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of restaurant and dining companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name restaurant and dining companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Restaurant and dining companies based in San Diego, United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Diego, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Diego, over 26 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among restaurant and dining companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in San Diego, United States whose own description of what they do matches “restaurant and dining companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names restaurant and dining companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among restaurant and dining companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Diego are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 81 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Restaurant and dining companies by metro in the United States
- Restaurant and dining companies in New York168
- Restaurant and dining companies in Chicago78
- Restaurant and dining companies in Houston59
- Restaurant and dining companies in Atlanta47
- Restaurant and dining companies in Los Angeles42
- Restaurant and dining companies in Dallas33
- Restaurant and dining companies in San Francisco32
- Restaurant and dining companies in Miami31
- Restaurant and dining companies in Boston26
- Restaurant and dining companies in Philadelphia26
- Restaurant and dining companies in San Diego26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names restaurant and dining companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many restaurant and dining companies are there based in San Diego, United States?
RevenueBase identified 26 restaurant and dining companies headquartered in San Diego, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Cohn Restaurant Group, headquartered in San Diego, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most restaurant and dining companies?
New York leads with 168 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (78) and Houston (59).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 81 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 26 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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