Restaurants in Fort Collins, CO

Fort Collins has 799 places in this guide, with 558 restaurants, 53 quick service spots, 83 cafes and 100 bars. Coffee shops and cafes take the top spot at 86, followed by bars at 64, pizza at 58 and Mexican at 58. Sandwiches and delis reach 51.

Of all listings here, 63 percent are independent. At 46.7 places per ten thousand residents, Fort Collins runs above the 41.8 median across all cities in this guide.

505 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Starbucks (23), Subway (12), McDonald's (6) and Jimmy John's (6).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Fort Collins ranks #178 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Fort Collins 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.