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Where to eat in Longmont, CO
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A few places to eat in Longmont
- Steamboat Mountain Foods · under 0.1 miles
454 Main St, Longmont - Pinocchio's Italian · under 0.1 miles
508 Main St, Longmont - Miss Krissy's Bistro American · under 0.1 miles
471 Main St, Longmont - Mike OShays Restaurant and Ale House Bar and Grill · 0.1 miles
512 Main St, Longmont - Red Cedar Bistro Mediterranean · 0.1 miles
516 Main St, Longmont
The closest few by distance from central Longmont, 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 Longmont.
The food scene in Longmont
Open listings put 218 places to eat within 2 miles of central Longmont, 65 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (45), pizza (20) and bakery (13). 12 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Longmont is Mexican — a type that is listed here at about 3 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Mexican 45 Pizza 20 Bakery 13 Sandwiches 11 American 8 Coffee 7 Chinese 6 Burgers 6 Italian 5 Breakfast & brunch 5
The food in Longmont
Longmont 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 Longmont 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 Longmont
Longmont has a population of about 89,919. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Longmont, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
Longmont has more places to eat than most of the country
Longmont sits in Boulder County, where the Census counts 354 full-service restaurants, 285 limited-service places, 126 cafés and snack bars and 32 bars — 797 places to eat or drink in all. Longmont makes up about 27% of the county's population.
At 24.3 food businesses per 10,000 residents against a national median of 19.4, this is one of the better-supplied places in the country. Choice is not the constraint here; narrowing it down is. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
Those county figures also cover Boulder, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Longmont.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
What are you craving in Longmont?
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Near Longmont
- Boulder, CO — about 14 miles away
- Loveland, CO — about 16 miles away
- Broomfield, CO — about 17 miles away
- Northglenn, CO — about 20 miles away
- Thornton, CO — about 22 miles away
- Westminster, CO — about 23 miles away
Campuses in and near Longmont
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
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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