Ball Arena Food & Drinks
Denver Nuggets · Denver, CO
- Cheapest food
- $7
- Cheapest drink
- $5
- Menu items
- 119
Ball Arena publishes a full A-Z of its stands, and the Colorado cooking is spread across them rather than concentrated in one place: Hatch green chili sausage and Polidori sausage at Colorado Social, spicy braised bison nachos and tacos at The Cantina, green chile chicken nachos and tacos beside them. Pepsi Test Kitchen runs a barbecue menu of ribs and smoked half chickens, Nola Jane brings gumbo, jambalaya and a debris po'boy, and Zero Wheat Street is a dedicated gluten-free stand with its own pizza and pasta. A $5 Fan Friendly menu runs across several counters. Denver's altitude makes hydration matter as much as the beer, and outside the arena LoDo has one of the best restaurant and brewery scenes in the country.
Tips & Fan Reports
The 14X sections are near the most interesting food on the lower level. The rest of the 100s and 300s is mostly just hotdogs and pizza. Some tickets can enter through the Breckenridge Brewery entrance.
The bison is at The Cantina, section 206, served as spicy braised bison nachos or tacos rather than as a sausage.
Colorado brewing is well represented. Breckenridge has its own Libation Station at sections 128 and 317, Left Hand and Holidaily pour at Colorado Social, and Odell is at the Codigo Lounge.
Green chile runs through the menu, but not as a burger: it is the Hatch green chili sausage at Colorado Social and the green chile chicken nachos and tacos at The Cantina, section 206.
Zero Wheat Street at section 301 is a dedicated gluten-free counter with its own pizza, pasta and cookies, not a modified version of the regular menu.
LoDo restaurants are a short walk or light rail ride, much better value and quality than arena food.
Hydrate between beers. Altitude makes alcohol hit harder and dehydration worse.
Cheapest Way to Eat
Ball Arena publishes a value menu. Items from $5.
Know Before You Go
- Venue payments
Concessions, suites, and premium locations are primarily cashless and accept debit and credit cards.
A limited number of locations accept cash; ask Guest Relations for the current list.
- Outside food and drink
Outside food and beverages are prohibited, but an empty metal or plastic non-glass water bottle up to 32 ounces is allowed.
Baby food, snacks, formula, bottles, hot water, and nursing or pumping supplies are permitted for infant care.
- Dietary options
Ball Arena offers gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian options, with food guides and ingredient or allergy information at Guest Relations kiosks.
For advance help with dietary needs, contact Guest Relations at 303-405-8548.
- Alcohol sales cutoff
Alcohol sales stop at the start of the fourth quarter for Nuggets games.
The cutoff is subject to change without notice.
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How We Checked This Page
Every section below names the source it was read from and the day it was read. Where we could not reach a published figure, the page says so rather than presenting an estimate as a checked fact.
- Concession menu
Ball Arena's own concessions directory, a filterable A-Z of every stand with its level, section numbers, full item list and dietary tags. 42 stands and 147 distinct food items are published; this carries each stand's distinctive food and drops the generics repeating at a dozen counters. Items the directory tags (5FF) carry $5, its own legend reading "(5FF) $5 Fan Friendly".
- Nearby restaurants
Google Places API (New) Nearby Search
- Value menu
Ball Arena: hot dogs, popcorn, candy and soda cut to $5 each, down from roughly $6.50-$8.50 the previous season
- Venue policies
Current Ball Arena policy, accessibility, bag, prohibited-items, food-and-beverage, and parking pages reviewed for Denver Nuggets game-day policies.
Not yet checked against a published source
These figures are estimates. Most venues no longer publish the numbers behind them (concession and ticket pricing moved to dynamic marketplaces), so we hold them as estimates rather than dating them as verified.
- Food prices: Team Marketing Report Fan Cost Index + venue research
- Drink prices: Team Marketing Report Fan Cost Index + venue research