Three Coulon sisters carrying the family's Belgian-cooking lineage opened Little Lion Cafe at 1424 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard in December 2014, picking up where the family's Belgian Lion (founded in Old Town in 1977 and later relocated to Ocean Beach) left off. A 19-seat indoor footprint plus a small alley patio puts the format in the boutique-cafe lane of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, a different scale than the morning operation at The Cliffs Cafe down the street at Niagara Avenue. Greens for the salad and frittata sections come from the family's own Griffin Farm, the small operation that supplies the changing seasonal menu. Belgian heritage shows up most clearly in the waffle program — a yeasted, pearl-sugar Liège-style waffle served plain or topped with house-cured salmon — and in the leek-puree soup tradition carried from the original Belgian Lion kitchen. The dessert program leans on a house-made chocolate ice cream with bananas, caramel, and peanut-butter cookie, with takeaway-scoop traffic on the same Sunset Cliffs corridor handled by the freezer case at Lighthouse Ice Cream toward the Pier end. A late-afternoon-and-dinner program added in mid-2015 expanded the cafe into wine-and-bar service, supporting private dinner buyouts and seasonal multi-course tasting nights for groups of 12 to 18 in the railroad-style room.