Every Opening and Closing This Week: Littleton Cafe, Eggs Inc. Shutter

June ended with some big closings, and they're continuing in July.

July 5, 2025

After fourteen years, the Littleton Cafe is closed. Littleton Cafe Facebook

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June ended with some big closures, and they continued this week. Some are temporary: El Chingon, which held its grand opening last month, was shuttered by a kitchen fire, while Santo Remedio ran into permitting problems with the city. But others are permanent.

"Long sappy post incoming," warned Dave and Becky Allen, owners of the Littleton Cafe, a popular neighborhood spot at 1409 West Littleton Boulevard. "After 14 incredible years, we have decided to close the Littleton Café. We have loved being a part of such an amazing community such as Littleton. We would like to thank each and every one of our loyal customers for the years of support Thank you to all of our amazing employees, you have truly become part of our family. Special thanks to the Littleton Police Department and you all will be dearly missed. We are sad to step away, but very excited to start enjoying retirement!! We wish you all the best and take care!"

The sappy post has a happy ending, though: The Allens are now enjoying their retirement, and Momma's Kitchen is slated to open in the space this month.

There's no happy ending for Eggs Inc., which opened at 1750 Wewatta Street in January. Local restaurateur Troy Guard and former Colorado Avalanche player and NHL Hall of Famer Peter Forsberg backed this first U.S. location of a Swedish concept that debuted in Stockholm in 2019. But Eggs Inc. apparently wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and has now closed.

In other restaurant news:

More closings are coming: TRVE Brewing Co. will pour its last beer on July 12, the heavy metal brewery announced last week.

One of the year's big openings, Schoolyard Beer Garden, made our list of the ten best patios in Denver. (The sibling Arvada Beer Garden is slated to open Monday, July 7.)

And a new spot topped our roster of the ten best rooftop bars, literally: Halo is now the highest rooftop bar in town.

Keep reading for all the restaurant openings and closings this week.*

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Lorenzo Nunez is hoping to reopen El Chingon soon.

Gil Asakawa

Openings

The Bindery, Concourse A, Denver International Airport

Temporary Closures

El Chingon, 722 Santa Fe Drive
Santo Remedio, 3900 Tennyson Street

Closures

Eggs Inc., 1750 Wewatta Street
Littleton Cafe, 1409 West Littleton Boulevard, Littleton

*or earlier, and not included on an earlier list.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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