Colorado Eats · Lakewood, Colorado
Lakewood green chile and oldest restaurants
In Lakewood: 1 green chile spot. The green chile list was hand-checked in fall 2026 against 2025–26 sources. Colorado Eats knows 402 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in Lakewood: search them on the web, or sort them by distance in the app.
These lists stay inside Lakewood. For Denver, 6 miles away, see the Denver page.
Green chile in Lakewood
Only places in Lakewood, hand-checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. Statewide: 46 Colorado green chile spots.
Davies' Chuck Wagon Diner
9495 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood
Green chile On the menu: green chile smothered breakfast burrito, green chili eggs Benedict, country fried steak, Chuckwagon breakfast · Since 1957
Stainless-steel 1957 diner under a giant neon cowboy, serving breakfast burritos smothered in green chile and country fried steak.
Oldest restaurants in Lakewood
Opening years at today's address, from the place's own history or a published one, oldest first; the note under each explains its year. Statewide: Colorado's oldest restaurants.
Davies' Chuck Wagon Diner
9495 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood
Green chile On the menu: green chile smothered breakfast burrito, green chili eggs Benedict, country fried steak, Chuckwagon breakfast · Since 1957
Stainless-steel 1957 diner under a giant neon cowboy, serving breakfast burritos smothered in green chile and country fried steak.
A prefabricated diner built in New Jersey, shipped by rail and opened on this West Colfax site in 1957 by Lyman Davies; listed on the National Register.
What Lakewood eats
The kinds of places Lakewood has most of, out of 402, counted from open map listings and Colorado's license records.
| Kind of place | Places |
|---|---|
| Mexican | 64 |
| Bar & Pub | 48 |
| Bakery & Sweets | 34 |
| Coffee & Café | 31 |
| Pizza | 30 |
| Burgers | 29 |
| Sandwiches & Deli | 22 |
| Chicken & Wings | 21 |
| Japanese & Sushi | 15 |
| Chinese | 14 |