Little Owl Coffee spreads wings with new bakery, LoHi location

Little Owl Coffee is getting a spot bigger.

The section java store opened a bakery downtown called Owlette successful July aft its erstwhile baked goods source, Reunion Bread Co., stopped offering wholesale during the pandemic.

And 2 weeks ago, Little Owl Coffee leased a 3rd java store astatine 2731 17th St. successful LoHi.

“The extremity is to physique our institution up to a size wherever we tin connection a broad acceptable of benefits for employees,” said co-owner Mike Sinon. “We’re trying to enactment unneurotic a institution that’s large capable to instrumentality attraction of everyone, similar idiosyncratic who wants to beryllium a barista oregon baker forever. We privation to connection paid clip off, wellness benefits, and each the things you request to beryllium comfy long-term.”

Little Owl Coffee opened its archetypal store successful 2013 astatine 1555 Blake St. successful the SugarCube Building, and different successful June of this twelvemonth astatine 410 17th St.

The 2,000-square-foot bakery astatine 1530 16th St. is successful Illegal Pete’s erstwhile archetypal determination downtown, which closed past twelvemonth aft 20 years owed to the pandemic. The bakery is unfastened Thursday done Sunday from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m., oregon until they merchantability out.

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Owlette, Little Owl Coffee’s caller downtown bakery, sells bread, croissants, buns, and pastries with unsocial spirit combinations.

There’s caller sourdough bread, which they besides wholesale, croissants, greeting buns, arsenic good arsenic pastries with unsocial spirit combinations, specified arsenic olive lipid barroom with yuzu and a hibiscus glaze, and an pome miso muffin. Everything is made in-house by the bakery’s six bakers, and Sinon’s sister Carolyn is moving the show.

Sinon, on with co-owners Corey Wall and Seanna Carrêlo, signed a impermanent lease for the bakery but anticipation to marque it imperishable aft investigating retired the concept.

“We person to enactment up definite numbers successful bid to warrant having this large of a abstraction connected the 16th Street Mall,” Sinon said.

The owners anticipation to unfastened the 3rd java store successful LoHi successful May oregon June adjacent year. The 500-square-foot abstraction is connected the crushed level of Revesco Properties’ bureau building.

“We acceptable a extremity for ourselves a fewer years agone to person 5 cafes successful Denver wrong 5 years, truthful this is portion of that momentum,” Sinon said.

Sinon and Wall were antecedently baristas for Carrêlo, who started the concern connected her ain 8 years ago. They were readying to permission the concern and commencement their ain roasting institution 4 years ago, but Carrêlo didn’t privation to suffer “the bosom and soul” of the shop, truthful she said she decided it would beryllium amended to determination guardant together.

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