Living the Sweet Life is leaving LoHi

No sooner had the LoHi Merchants Group added up the bars, restaurants and coffee shops in the neighborhood to a whopping 55 than some of them started disappearing. Gramma Dor's is gone, as is 32nd Treat. And now comes news that Erika Cunha, owner of Living the Sweet Life, is...

By Patricia Calhoun

January 11, 2013

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No sooner had the LoHi Merchants Group added up the bars, restaurants and coffee shops in the neighborhood to a whopping 55 than some of them started disappearing.

Gramma Dor's is gone, as is 32nd Treat. And now comes news that Erika Cunha, owner of Living the Sweet Life, is closing her LoHi bakery located next to Masterpiece Deli. See also: - For the sweet freaks: Living the Sweet Life grand opening - 32nd Treat has closed in Lower Highland - Lohi goes from 22 bars and restaurants to 55 -- in just six years

An "existing restaurant" will lease the space, 5280 reports, and Cunha will be selling the contents of the bakery that she opened back in September 2009.

Even though losing Living the Sweet Life will reduce the LoHi count to 52, new spots, including the much anticipated Old Major, are scheduled to open soon...and would-be restaurateurs are snapping up any spaces that open up.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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