After almost 16 years on the same corner, Cherry Creek North's longtime breakfast restaurant closed in August. Four smaller businesses are lined up to follow it: a bagel shop, an Australian café, and two independent bakeries. Each is a smaller format than a full-service breakfast restaurant, and most of them open in 2027. The neighborhood will have more morning options by next summer than it had last summer. Between now and then, it has fewer.
Sixteen Years at 300 Josephine
Syrup's Cherry Creek location at 300 Josephine St. closed Aug. 16, 2026, BusinessDen reported in late July. Founder Tim Doherty opened it in 2010. Westword's roundup put the run at "nearly 16 years" and noted that Syrup's other four Denver locations, in Edgewater, Capitol Hill, City Park and Downtown, would stay open.
That makes this a neighborhood closing, not the end of a chain. People in Cherry Creek who liked Syrup can still drive to another location. What closed was the walkable, sit-down breakfast room on the district's own streets.
One Cherry Creek business owner had already described that gap before the closing. In May, Trompeau Bakery owner Beth Ginsberg explained to the Denver Post, in a story reported with BusinessDen, why she was expanding into the neighborhood: "Cherry Creek has a lot of high-end, fancy restaurants. Not so many cafes." The openings now on the calendar fit her description. They are cafés, a bakery and a bagel counter, and none is the kind of dinner room the district is known for.
What Is Open for Mornings This Winter
From now until the 2027 openings, mornings in Cherry Creek North depend on places already open. The Cherry Creek North business directory lists these breakfast, brunch and coffee spots. Check hours before you go, since directory pages aren't updated daily.
- Aviano Coffee, 244 Detroit St. The district lists it as a coffee shop serving coffee and tea. Aviano will also matter in the next section, because a new bakery is opening next door.
- Urban Egg, 3033 E. 1st Ave. Listed under brunch, serving breakfast, brunch, lunch, coffee and morning drinks. Of the places on this list, it is the closest to a full-menu breakfast restaurant.
- Local Jones, 249 Columbine St. Listed under brunch, with posted daily hours starting at 7:30 a.m.
- The Pasty Republic, 2615 E. 3rd Ave. Listed under breakfast, with pasties as its morning option.
- Toro by Chef Richard Sandoval, 150 Clayton Lane. Listed under brunch.
The list is short, and each place does something different. Urban Egg and Local Jones cover a sit-down breakfast. Aviano covers coffee. Toro is a weekend brunch, not a weekday breakfast. The Pasty Republic is grab-and-go. Several of the businesses arriving in 2027 aim at the space between a sit-down breakfast and a coffee counter: a quick, good, walkable morning stop.
One Block on Milwaukee Street Becomes a Morning Destination
Most of the new morning traffic will come to one building. BMC Investments and Rockpoint's Oasis, at 299 Milwaukee St. between Second and Third avenues, has 26,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. ColoradoBiz reported Sept. 16 that all of it is leased. The developers expect the first retailers to open in the first quarter of 2027, with more openings through the year. The building's 177 apartments are scheduled for completion at the same time as the first retail openings.
Two of the tenants are morning businesses.
PopUp Bagels leased space in the Oasis, BMC told BusinessDen in September. It will be one of the chain's first two Colorado shops, alongside a location in Boulder's Moxy Hotel, which BMC also developed and owns. The chain is known for its "grip, rip and dip" approach. Its format is a counter where you pick up bagels and go, not a table where you sit through a second cup.
Two Hands, the Australian café and restaurant, will open its second Denver location at 221 N. Milwaukee St., on the Oasis ground floor. Founder and CEO Henry Roberts told BusinessDen in late August that it would open "this spring." That points to spring 2027, which fits the Oasis's first-quarter-2027 retail window. The first Two Hands opened at 3985 Tennyson St. in Berkeley about two years ago.
The other two tenants show what the block will be like during the day. Arhaus is the anchor at about 18,000 square feet, and a Denver real estate brokerage will open its fifth Colorado office there. Arhaus's move has a knock-on effect inside the mall. BusinessDen reported Oct. 8 that Pottery Barn will take the 13,400-square-foot Arhaus space at Cherry Creek Shopping Center. That report did not include an opening date.
Here is the morning schedule as currently announced:
| Business | Address | Format | Announced timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trompeau Bakery | 3239 E. 2nd Ave. | Bakery café | Owner hoped for fall 2026 |
| PopUp Bagels | 299 Milwaukee St. | Bagel counter | Oasis retail from Q1 2027 |
| Two Hands | 221 N. Milwaukee St. | Café and restaurant | "This spring," reported Aug. 2026 |
| Butterdrop Bakeshop | 250 Detroit St. | Bakery | "Next year," reported Oct. 2026 |
Two Bakeries Opening Beside Businesses Already Here
The two independent bakeries are opening at addresses chosen with their neighbors in mind.
Butterdrop Bakeshop will be next to Aviano Coffee at 250 Detroit St. It is Diana Flores's first brick-and-mortar shop after a decade in Denver, according to BusinessDen's Oct. 5 report, and it is scheduled to open next year. Flores, a native of Honduras, described what she wants to bake in plain terms. "I feel like a lot of pastry shops are too pretentious and flashy," she told BusinessDen. "We want to keep tradition and make you feel like you're eating something your mom or grandma made." Once it opens, that stretch of Detroit Street will have coffee and pastry side by side, which is the pairing a morning walk is usually built around.
Trompeau Bakery is building its third location, after South Broadway and the 16th Street Mall, on the ground floor of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation building at 3239 E. Second Ave., between Adams and Steele streets. The Denver Post report said the café will serve drinks, sandwiches and Trompeau's croissants. It will also have space for artists with Down syndrome to sell their work, and Ginsberg plans to hire people with Down syndrome to work there. She signed a 10-year lease for 1,500 square feet. The building went up in the late 2010s with a ground-floor café in its design, and it took several years to find the right tenant.
Ginsberg described her goal in neighborhood terms. "We're not a destination," she told the Denver Post. "We're more of your local favorite." In May she hoped to open this fall. In mid-October, the Trompeau locations page still listed the Cherry Creek café as "Coming Summer 2026," an estimate that has already passed, so watch that page for an updated date. If it opens before the Oasis tenants, it will be the first new café in the district since Syrup closed.
Where Mornings Happen Until Then: Fillmore Plaza
Fillmore Plaza gets more foot traffic on November and December mornings. The free Cherry Creek Holiday Market runs Nov. 19 through Dec. 24, with local makers, designers and creators. The Giving Machines, donation vending machines open 24/7, are on the plaza from Nov. 19 through Jan. 4, 2027. Small Business Weekend runs Nov. 27 through 30 across the district. Aviano and Butterdrop's future address are on Detroit Street, and Local Jones is on Columbine. This season, a coffee there and a stop at the market make an easy late-fall morning.
If the announced timelines hold, four more morning spots will join that list by next fall, two of them in the Oasis on Milwaukee Street.
If you're weighing how the new Oasis storefronts and the bakeries on Detroit Street and Second Avenue fit your plans in Cherry Creek North, Chad Nash is glad to begin with a strategic conversation.
