New vegan bakery opening next to Cap Hill’s City O’ City

A new vegan bakery is going in next to Denver vegetarian restaurant City O’ City.

The Cake Bar, owned by Angie Wells, will open next week at 214 E. 13th Ave., where Make Believe Bakery previously operated.

“I wanted vegans and people with allergies to get the same fun, creative custom cakes that are traditionally sold in bakeries,” Wells said. “It’s not about tasting vegan, it’s about tasting delicious.”

Make Believe, which was also fully vegan, opened in 2016 and was owned by the owners of City O’ City, who sold its desserts there and at Uptown sister restaurant Watercourse Foods. But the bakery’s storefront has been closed for months.

City O’ City co-owner Lauren Roberts told BusinessDen that she and her partners originally planned to turn the Make Believe space into a commissary kitchen, before deciding instead to just sunset the brand and handle the baking in the kitchens of the two restaurants.

But that left Make Believe’s former real estate, ...