Restaurants in Boulder, CO

Boulder has 783 places in this guide: 563 restaurants, 31 quick-service spots, 103 cafes and 79 bars. Coffee shops and cafes lead the category counts at 108, with pizza at 51, Mexican at 47 and sandwiches and delis at 43. Breweries reach 41.

74 percent of places here are independent. Readers can use those pages to judge the wider Colorado options.

580 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (15), Subway (8), Noodles & Company (6) and Snarf's Sandwiches (4).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Boulder ranks #63 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Boulder 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.