# Food & Dining search demand in Denver THE SEARCH LEDGER · DENVER, COLORADO · FOOD & DINING Every month Denver types 4,023,160 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/denver/food-dining#colophon) 955 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Denver metro, Sep 8, 2026 4,023,160 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Denver metro, Sep 8, 2026 $2.9M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.35 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Denver metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Denver searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in JUL and lowest in FEB. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 67, February 66, March 76, April 74, May 88, June 87, July 100, August 92, September 87, October 79, November 67, December 75. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Denver — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Denver pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 955 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“cuba cuba cafe & bar denver”** at $2.31. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 2,240,000 | $0.57 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | breakfast near me | 301,000 | $0.54 | 23 | transactional | | 3 | coffee shops near me | 246,000 | $0.43 | 0 | transactional | | 4 | pizza near me | 201,000 | $1.26 | 12 | transactional | | 5 | bars near me | 165,000 | $0.37 | 0 | transactional | | 6 | denver restaurants | 33,100 | $1.24 | 27 | commercial | | 7 | avanti restaurant denver | 27,100 | $0.10 | 2 | commercial | | 8 | prost brewery denver | 27,100 | $0.67 | 0 | commercial | | 9 | best restaurants denver | 22,200 | $1.31 | 9 | commercial | | 10 | cherry creek grill denver | 22,200 | $2.08 | | branded | | 11 | denver my brother's bar | 14,800 | $0.89 | | commercial | | 12 | cherry creek dining | 14,800 | $1.38 | 0 | commercial | | 13 | pepper asian bistro denver | 14,800 | $1.67 | | branded | | 14 | 5280 burger bar denver | 14,800 | $1.11 | 2 | commercial | | 15 | bar dough denver | 14,800 | $1.48 | 17 | commercial | | 16 | cuba cuba cafe & bar denver | 14,800 | $2.31 | 18 | commercial | | 17 | appaloosa grill denver | 12,100 | $0.27 | | branded | | 18 | barolo grill denver | 12,100 | $0.67 | | branded | | 19 | little owl coffee denver | 12,100 | $0.33 | | branded | | 20 | shanahan's steakhouse denver | 12,100 | $0.87 | 21 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Denver metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Denver food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 2,240,000/mo · $0.57 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 The Meltdown 3★ 62 - 2 Corinne Denver 4.8★ 6,300 - 3 Vallejo Food Pickup 3.9★ 203 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 visitdenver.com - 2 denver.eater.com - 3 culinarydropout.com - 4 bluemountainbelle.com - 5 yelp.com pizza near me 201,000/mo · $1.26 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 The Pizza Bar 4.4★ 266 - 2 Little Johnny B's - Woodfired Pizza 4.5★ 80 - 3 Fuso Pizza & Pasta 3.8★ 19 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 denverpizzaco.com LOCAL - 2 locations.pizzahut.com LOCAL - 3 tripadvisor.com - 4 mypizzagrill.com LOCAL - 5 yelp.com Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Denver metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Denver The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Sam's No. 3 | 4.6 ★ | 10,715 | Breakfast | YES | | #2 | Atomic Cowboy home of Denver Biscuit Co & Fat Sully's NY Pizza | 4.6 ★ | 8,268 | Pizza | YES | | #3 | Happy Camper Pizza | 4.7 ★ | 7,500 | Pizza | YES | | #4 | Yard House | 4.4 ★ | 6,620 | New American | YES | | #5 | Corinne Denver | 4.8 ★ | 6,338 | Restaurant | YES | | #6 | City O' City | 4.5 ★ | 6,332 | Vegetarian | YES | | #7 | Steuben's Uptown | 4.4 ★ | 6,112 | American | YES | | #8 | Savina's Mexican Kitchen - Downtown Denver | 4.4 ★ | 4,926 | Mexican | YES | | #9 | Earls Kitchen + Bar | 4.7 ★ | 4,892 | Restaurant | YES | | #10 | Thirsty Lion | 4.4 ★ | 4,794 | Restaurant | YES | | #11 | Maggiano's Little Italy | 4.5 ★ | 4,728 | Italian | YES | | #12 | Atomic Cowboy home of Denver Biscuit Co & Fat Sully's NY Pizza | 4.5 ★ | 4,574 | Pizza | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Denver metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Denver searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. cherry creek grill denver 22,200/mo pepper asian bistro denver 14,800/mo appaloosa grill denver 12,100/mo barolo grill denver 12,100/mo little owl coffee denver 12,100/mo the bagel deli denver 12,100/mo crema coffee denver 9,900/mo bistro vendome denver 8,100/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Denver metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Denver asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Denver food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-eats in Denver? What are some hidden gem restaurants in Denver? What are some must-try restaurants in Colorado? What are some good places to have dinner in Denver? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? Who has the best pizza deals out right now? What are some good pizza places in Denver, Colorado? What is the best pizza in Louisville, KY? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Denver metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Denver search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Denver, Colorado · Food & Dining · 955 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 955 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. 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