Kiki's Health Cafe is leaving its Evergreen-only footprint behind, with plans to open a second location in Morrison this September at 300 Bear Creek Avenue. The new spot will serve the same whole-foods, organic-leaning menu that built the original cafe's following, landing right on the small foothills town's main commercial strip.
According to Whatnow, Kiki's Health Cafe was founded in 2021 by Chef Rand G. Packer and Tiffani Packer, first opening in Evergreen with a relaxed, island-inspired atmosphere. The Morrison expansion, the outlet reports, marks the next step in the couple's growing Front Range hospitality portfolio. The cafe makes just about everything from scratch, and the menu includes acai bowls and poke alongside other whole-food offerings designed to fuel an active lifestyle.
A Cafe Born From a Daughter's Nutritional Needs
Kiki's Health Cafe was inspired by the Packers' daughter Kirra, who pursued competitive sports, per the same account. The idea, as the outlet describes it, was to build a place that could provide healthy food people could realistically eat every day rather than treat as an occasional indulgence. That inspiration is baked into the cafe's clean, gluten-free approach, which draws on Hawaiian flavors, according to Givesmart.
The Hawaiian influence traces directly back to Chef Rand Packer's own training. He worked under Chef Roy Yamaguchi in Hawaii before bringing those Pacific flavors home, the whatnow report notes. As detailed by DiningOut, Packer trained at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco before joining Yamaguchi's kitchen at Roy's in Maui, where he developed the appreciation for Pacific ingredients that now shows up in Kiki's poke and acai bowls.
A Growing Foothills Hospitality Footprint
The Morrison move is not the Packers' first venture beyond Evergreen. Chef Rand G. Packer and Tiffani Packer already operate Muddy Buck Coffee House, Murphy's Mountain Grill, Evoke 1923, and La Rocca Rossa, whatnow reports, a lineup that spans casual and fine dining across the foothills. The couple's roots in the restaurant business predate their move to Colorado; before relocating in 2016, they opened Mekenita Grill in Florida in 2007, an authentic Oaxacan Mexican concept that later expanded into Mekenita Cantina in Tampa, according to Patch.
Once in Colorado, the Packers built their foothold in Evergreen first. Murphy's Mountain Grill, opened along Bear Creek in 2016, was their first restaurant in the region and offered scratch-made casual mountain dining, per Murphy's Mountain Grill's own account. They later acquired Muddy Buck Coffee House in 2018, running it out of the historic 1896 Evergreen Hotel with an in-house coffee roasting program, as reported by the Denver Gazette. Their most recent Evergreen concept, Evoke 1923, is a zero-waste fine-dining restaurant inside a 103-year-old building where the kitchen composts food scraps and converts meat trimmings into cooking oils, according to Denver Life Magazine.
Why Morrison, and Why Now
The Packers already had a presence in Morrison before Kiki's arrival. They opened La Rocca Rossa, an upscale Italian steakhouse, in the historic 1876 Ross Building at 209 Bear Creek Avenue in 2025, just down the street from where the new cafe is headed, according to Mile High Dine and Recline. The 300 Bear Creek Avenue space Kiki's is moving into previously served as the storefront for Red Rocks Cyclery, a local bike shop, per the Colorado Office of Economic Development.
Morrison itself is tiny, with a 2020 census population of just 396 residents and a median household income of $122,083 as of 2024, according to Data USA. But the town's economy runs on more than its year-round residents. Morrison sits directly adjacent to Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, a 9,525-capacity National Historic Landmark venue that hosts more than 150 ticketed events annually, sending waves of concertgoers and cyclists down Bear Creek Avenue, per the Wikipedia entry on the venue. That mix of small-town locals and seasonal foot traffic sets up the same kind of gateway-town customer base Kiki's has already learned to serve in Evergreen.
