Last updated Thursday, October 8, 2026
When I surveyed readers this summer about what they wanted more of, restaurant and opening news won by a mile. So this page is the running answer: what's newly open around Littleton 80127 and Ken Caryl, what's coming, and what we lost. A lot of it comes out of county permit files before anyone announces a thing, which is how this newsletter found half the entries below. The Friday email gets each one first.
The Summit Steak Bar, 5869 South Alkire Street, in the old Bevy's building. Open since Monday, August 31, which ended months of a live website with no date on it. Dinner runs 5 to 9 Sunday through Thursday and 4 to 10 Friday and Saturday, with reservations through its site. It's a real steakhouse, dry-aged beef and a prime butcher's cutting room, in a building most of us still call Bevy's.
Ziggi's Coffee, 8020 South Sangre de Cristo. The Colorado-grown drive-thru chain opened its Chatfield and Sangre de Cristo corner on August 27, after a spring and summer of construction on that lot. Dirty sodas, protein coffees, and a kids' menu, plus a drive-thru line that will tell you how the zip is voting.
Hotpot Den, 5934 South Kipling Parkway. A family-run, all-you-can-eat hot pot spot in the old Chen's Kitchen space, with house-made broths and the cook-it-yourself table experience.
Los Dos Potrillos, 10065 West San Juan Way. Back. The family Mexican standby reopened July 9 after a kitchen fire in March kept it dark for four months, and the line on reopening day said everything about how much this one was missed.
Ken Caryl Kabob, 12652 West Ken Caryl Avenue, Suite A. Mediterranean and Nepalese under one roof, open since last year but still flying under a lot of radars. Their events calendar stays busy.
Jersey Mike's, 7735 West Long Drive. One zip over, about a mile east of Kipling. The July tenant permit reads like a sub shop starter kit, two kitchen hoods and a brand-new grease trap.
Turnbuckle Distilling, northwest corner of Bowles and C-470. The most ambitious of the batch: a five-acre distillery with a chef-driven restaurant, a silo tasting room, and a working farm on the old Whistling Hare property. Its own site still says Coming Soon with no date.
For the paperwork behind these and every other project in the zip, see What's Going In There?, our development tracker.
Lucile's closed its Littleton location this spring after losing a lease fight we covered as it happened. Beignet season around here hasn't been the same.
This page tracks what's new, and the guide readers keep asking for is the one to what's good. That list should come from the people who actually eat here. Reply with the local spot you'd send a new neighbor to first, and what to order, at [email protected]. Favorites run anonymously, first names never required, and the best ones will grow this page into the neighborhood's answer sheet. And if you want each week's restaurant news the moment I find it in the permit files, the Friday newsletter is free.
More field guides from the Post: the trails page for where you can actually hike around here, the bears page for this summer's record bear activity and what to do about it, the Halloween page for every trunk-or-treat and pumpkin patch near 80127, and the 2026 ballot page for what each measure does and costs.
Your weekly guide to Littleton, Ken Caryl, and the SW Denver foothills. Events, restaurants, trails, development news, and the stuff your neighbors are talking about.