Restaurants in Arvada, CO

Listed in this guide are 374 places in Arvada, including 258 restaurants, 32 quick service spots, 37 cafes and 40 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead at 37, just ahead of Mexican restaurants at 36 and pizza at 34. Bars as a category reach 31, and sandwiches and delis reach 26.

Independent places make up 53 percent of listings here. At 30.7 places per ten thousand residents, Arvada sits below the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

200 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (16), Subway (7), Taco Bell (6) and Jersey Mike's Subs (5).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Arvada ranks #295 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Arvada by cuisine

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Place data from the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org), which includes data from Meta, Microsoft and Foursquare, used under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses. Restaurants open, close and move; check with the restaurant before you go. Data refreshed 2026-10-11.