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Where to eat in Commerce City, CO
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A few places to eat in Commerce City
- Mama's Cafe Comfort Food · 0.2 miles
6025 Parkway Dr, Commerce City - Mei Wei Chinese Restaurant · 0.3 miles
6075 E Parkway Dr Ste 105, Commerce City - Los Tamales Mexican · 0.3 miles
4952 E 62nd Ave, Commerce City - Golden Town Chinese · 0.8 miles
5976 E 64th Ave, Commerce City - Deno's 6 & 85 Restaurant & Lounge · 0.9 miles
5555 Colorado Blvd, Commerce City
The closest few by distance from central Commerce City, not a ranking — local places listed ahead of chains. Listings from Overture Maps open data (September 2026); hours and openings change, so check before you go. Want one picked for what you're craving instead? Ask Savor Scout in Commerce City.
The food scene in Commerce City
Open listings put 78 places to eat within 2 miles of central Commerce City, 19 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (27), pizza (6) and bakery (4). 8 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Commerce City is Mexican and tacos — types that are listed here at 5 to 5 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Mexican 27 Pizza 6 Bakery 4 Tacos 3 Ice cream 3 Sandwiches 2 Coffee 2 Diner 2
The food in Commerce City
Commerce City does not have infinite options, and that brings its own problem: you have been to most of them, and picking again is somehow still hard.
Savor Scout picks one restaurant in Commerce City and tells you why it picked it. Say what you're craving and it reads menus and reviews for that specific dish, rather than sorting places by overall star rating. Free, runs in the browser, and one search needs no account.
Eating out in Commerce City
Commerce City has a population of about 49,799. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Commerce City, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Commerce City is a little thinner on options than average
Commerce City sits in Adams County, where the Census counts 264 full-service restaurants, 374 limited-service places, 86 cafés and snack bars and 41 bars — 765 places to eat or drink in all. Commerce City makes up about 10% of the county's population.
That is 14.7 per 10,000 residents, a little under the national median of 19.4. Fewer options than average, which makes picking the right one matter more. Counter service clearly outnumbers sit-down — more a drive-through town than a linger-over-dinner one.
Those county figures also cover Thornton, Westminster, Northglenn, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Commerce City.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
What are you craving in Commerce City?
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Near Commerce City
- Thornton, CO — about 5 miles away
- Denver, CO — about 6 miles away
- Westminster, CO — about 6 miles away
- Northglenn, CO — about 7 miles away
- Aurora, CO — about 8 miles away
- Arvada, CO — about 8 miles away
Campuses in and near Commerce City
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Regis University
- Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Community College of Denver
- University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
- Front Range Community College
- University of Denver
- Community College of Aurora
- Colorado State University Global
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
Maps and Yelp are directories: they rank everything nearby and leave the deciding to you. Savor Scout makes the call and shows its reasoning — the match score, what it beat, and the evidence behind the pick. The underlying place data comes from the same public sources, so the difference is the selection, not the data.
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