R Qahwah Cafe
Yemeni Coffee
Yemeni coffee, Arabic pastries and matcha, in the old Mud Pie Vegan Bakery space.
7319 W. 95th St.
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Restaurants
New Restaurants in Overland Park: All 42 Openings Since June 2025
Three Yemeni coffee houses opened inside a single year: Turath Coffee on College Boulevard, Mocha Point on 135th, and R Qahwah Cafe on 95th. Vietnam Cafe, the 30-year-old Columbus Park institution, opened its first Johnson County location at 135th & Switzer, so the regulars who had been driving 35 to 40 minutes each way can stop doing that.
Vietnam Cafe
Vietnamese
The 30-year-old Columbus Park pho house that Johnson County has been driving 40 minutes for. Micky Chun manages this one and her aunt and uncle own the original. Slow-simmered pho, and a drive-thru.
9500 W. 135th St.
New to town
Toastique
Toast & Juice
Gourmet toast is the whole idea: loaded toasts, smoothie bowls, cold-pressed juice, coffee. First Kansas City location for the franchise.
6445 W. 135th St.
Sage & Berry
Açaí & Smoothies
Açaí bowls, smoothies and juices in the upper-level food court, at the counter Taste of Brazil's express location used to run.
11149 W. 95th St. (Oak Park Mall food court)
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New to town
Hyper Energy Bar
Energy Drinks
Build-your-own energy drinks, plus Italian sodas and coffee, out a drive-thru window.
9550 Nieman Road
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The Dressing Room at Heddi Monro
Speakeasy
Boutique front, trivia-gated speakeasy inside the InterUrban Lofts building — Kansas City spirits like Mean Mule and Restless Spirits alongside real zero-proof cocktails.
7900 Conser St.
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Pho Solar Vietnamese Cuisine
Vietnamese
House-baked banh mi tied to a family dream — pho and vermicelli on Metcalf.
9066 Metcalf Ave.
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Hashtag India
Indian
Highland Plaza picked up an Indian restaurant. It opened without an announcement and nobody ever published a firm date, which is why we are vague about the when.
10150 W. 119th St.
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69 Sushi
All-You-Can-Eat Sushi
We go for the all-you-can-eat sushi at this Stanley Square buffet named for its corner at 151st Street and Highway 69.
7956 W. 151st St.
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Kiyoshi Omakase
Omakase
We book one of eight counter seats to watch chef Jerry Cao plate a fourteen-course omakase, with fish flown in from Tokyo's Toyosu Market, on Santa Fe Drive.
8016 Santa Fe Dr.
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New to town
Sugar Llamas
Donuts & Dirty Soda
Tulsa import selling mini donuts, ice cream, dirty soda and coffee. Sugar in four formats.
8971 Metcalf Ave.
Te Amo Café
Café
A family-run café in Stanley Square. Lattes, matcha, boba and lemonades, which covers about every direction a coffee order can go these days.
7932 W. 151st St.
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New to town
Naturalz Ice Cream
Ice Cream
First Kansas City shop for a Washington-state ice cream brand. All natural, with flavors borrowed from around the world.
6301 W. 135th St., Suite BA
Turath Coffee
Yemeni Coffee
Arabic and Yemeni coffee near College and Mastin. The owners are clear about what they want it to be: a place people gather, not a counter you grab a cup from.
9916 College Blvd.
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Café Equinox
Greenhouse Café
A permanent indoor coffee shop inside Family Tree Nursery, where a seasonal cart used to run part of the year. Thou Mayest coffee, Heirloom pastries, and greenhouse seating you can use in February.
8424 Farley St. (inside Family Tree Nursery)
Tasty African Food KC
West African
West African cooking. They outgrew a smaller operation and took a full storefront, which is the good kind of problem to have.
11240 W. 135th St.
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New to town
Valentino's
Pizza
Nebraska's pizza chain, in the Kansas City area for the first time. The model is carryout and delivery.
8909 W. 135th St.
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Mocha Point Coffee
Yemeni Coffee
One of several Yemeni coffee houses that have opened across Johnson County in the past year. This one arrived on a quiet soft-open weekend with no announcement to speak of.
8641 W. 135th St.
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New to town
7 Brew Coffee
Drive-Thru Coffee
Drive-thru coffee at the new OsLo development. Nothing more or less than that.
8721 W. 135th St.
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Midwest Dirty Pop
Dirty Soda
Dirty soda with an eighties theme, from Mike Lewis, down on the floor level at Oak Park Mall. It had been open and pouring for months before the local press caught up to it.
11149 W. 95th St. (Oak Park Mall)
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Stockyards Brewing Co.
Brewery Taproom
We drink pints inside a former Piggly Wiggly on Mastin Street, where the West Bottoms brewery opened its first suburban taproom in January 2026.
10310 Mastin St.
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New to town
Bahama Buck's
Shaved Ice
Shaved ice, franchise standard. The kind of place you drive past nine months of the year and then suddenly need.
11110 W. 135th St.
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KCookies
Cookies
A cookie shop operating inside the Queen's Price Chopper, which means dinner and dessert without moving the car.
7201 W. 151st St. (inside Queen's Price Chopper)
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New to town
Dutch Bros Coffee
Drive-Thru Coffee
Overland Park's second Dutch Bros drive-thru. Same coffee, one fewer reason to cross town for it.
5851 W. 135th St.
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New to town
Saladworks
Salads & Bowls
The first Saladworks in the metro: salads, wraps, melts and grain bowls. Useful when the rest of your group wants burgers and you do not.
7745 W. 159th St. (Bluhawk)
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La Fetta Delicatessen
Italian Deli
An Italian delicatessen. Sandwiches cut to order, meats cured in house, and shelves of Italian pantry goods.
14363 Metcalf Ave.
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Kiwami Ramen & Sushi
Ramen & Sushi
Ramen on one side of the menu, sushi on the other. Independently owned.
7305 W. 95th St.
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Desi Chowrastha
Indian
Indian food at Corbin Park, in the suite next door to Naturalz Ice Cream.
6301 W. 135th St., Suite A
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New to town
Popeyes
Fried Chicken
Fried chicken. You already know whether that is good news.
10313 Metcalf Ave.
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Rajmahal Indian Cuisine & Bar
Indian
North Indian cooking with a full bar attached, which is the part that sets it apart on paper.
5621 W. 135th St., Suite 2610 (Prairiefire)
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Beer Kitchen
Gastropub Stall
The Westport gastropub took a stall inside Strang Hall, so its kitchen is downtown now and you do not have to cross the state line for it.
7313 W. 80th St. (inside Strang Hall)
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Pokéloha
Poké & Noodles
A Lawrence-born brand's first move up to Overland Park. Poké bowls, sushi, ramen and dry-tossed noodles, on the northeast corner of 119th.
11831 Metcalf Ave.
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Umami Revolving Sushi
Conveyor Sushi
Conveyor-belt sushi at Overland Pointe Marketplace. Plates ride past on the belt and you take what looks good, no ordering required.
8180 W. 135th St.
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New to town
Handel's Homemade Ice Cream
Ice Cream
An Ohio-born ice cream chain, scooping just up the road from Oak Park Mall.
11885 W. 95th St.
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Dragonfly Tea Zone
Boba Tea
Boba tea on the upper level. Handy about halfway through a shopping trip, which is presumably the idea.
11149 W. 95th St. #185 (Oak Park Mall)
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New to town
Swig
Dirty Soda
Utah's dirty soda drive-thru: fountain soda loaded up with syrups, cream and fruit. The Quivira Crossings shop came first and more Overland Park locations followed fast.
11860 W. 135th St.
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New to town
151 Coffee
Drive-Thru Coffee
A Texas-born drive-thru coffee brand. Coffee, car, gone.
9180 Metcalf Ave.
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New to town
Chicken Salad Chick
Sandwiches
Chicken salad and nothing but, from a Southern chain. Exactly what the name says it is.
9222 Metcalf Ave.
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New to town
Paris Baguette
Bakery Café
French-inspired Korean bakery café, and the first one in the metro. A second Overland Park location followed on Metcalf a couple of months later.
11125 W. 95th St.
New to town
85°C Bakery Cafe
Taiwanese Bakery
Taiwanese bakery-café chain, selling pastries alongside coffee and tea drinks.
12061 Metcalf Ave.
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Don Chuy's Fresh Mex & Cantina
Mexican
Mexican food and a full cantina, from the group that also runs a Lee's Summit location.
8725 Metcalf Ave.
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New to town
Chick-In Waffle
Chicken & Waffles
Chicken and waffles, which is the entire concept and does not need much more explaining.
8667 W. 135th St.
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