Find your next café.
The temple of the Black Cat, where the pour-over is a quiet ceremony.
Q-graders, a flawless pour, and espresso treated like a science.
An architect's eye for detail and a rotating cast of the continent's best roasters.
Raw steel and concrete where Laguna Canyon meets the coast, with a lever machine on the bar.
Alvar Aalto chairs and a 360-degree espresso bar in the 1928 Wells Fargo building.
A cafe built ground-up from six shipping containers, pouring Tim Wendelboe and Sey on rotation.
Mountaintop minimalism — a cream-top latte and nowhere to hide a laptop.
A Koreatown art gallery that happens to pour some of LA's best filter.
One man, one bar, and a cup measured to the milligram.
A rotating passport of the world's best roasters on York Blvd.
A Christy Lee Rogers underwater photograph covers the ceiling, fading to white down the walls.
Yellow-walled corner shop that prints what it paid for the green
A roastery compound with a tasting room led by a Brewers Cup champion
Belmont Shore minimalism — a Q-grader behind the roast
Six pour-overs printed down to varietal, in the white-walled room Stereoscope opened first.
A multi-roaster bar in the Jonathan Club building, rotating Fritz, Lot 61 and Camber.
Every roast charted for acid and aroma, then a five-minute pour
A sun-filled corner, vinyl on the turntable, and organic coffee roasted with a conscience.
No WiFi, white cups, and a cappuccino made the old way.
A retrofuturistic Melrose room built on a decade of studying Tokyo cafes.
Beans roasted out back almost daily, a Slayer up front, and a roaster happy to talk you through your grind.
A roaster behind the bar, a boardwalk out front, and a cortado worth the sand in your shoes.
A Gensler-built courtyard bar, now roasting its own on a 15-kilo machine in Inglewood.
Marble, Mexican tile, and a condensed-milk espresso with a cookie to dunk.
Twenty roasters, one rainbow shelf, and the rare bean you came to find.
Scandinavian calm, a fin above the counter, and a flat white worth the corner.
Olive trees off Hollywood Blvd and the almond-macadamia latte that started a trend.
The bar that taught Los Angeles to taste its coffee.
Highland Park's roaster downtown, pouring Oaxaca, Chiapas and Guerrero lots it roasts itself.
Mexico City cafe culture, a courtyard, and single origins roasted just down the road.
An art gallery up front, the coffee bar behind open garage doors, surfboards in between.
A mosaic bar built from a decade of shattered cups and plates, fig tree by the counter
Old Pasadena's Illumination Bar: manual-lever espresso and AeroPress off a lowered counter.
Beans grown on the family's Guatemalan farm, roasted out back, poured under a chandelier.
A converted warehouse with two skylights, pouring Maru's own Giesen and Loring roast.
A light-filled Pomona Ave room by Rad the Studio, pouring Civil espresso and guest roasters.
A kissaten-inspired slow bar in East Hollywood, roasting its own every Thursday with an Xbloom Studio on brew duty.
The Green Store — the brand's Colombian-rainforest room, SCA Coffee Design Award winner at Portland 2023.
Fast wifi, a patio, and a honey latte the whole block runs on.
Pouring Heart Roasters exclusively since 2016, with seven single origins on the shelf.
A purist's bar where baristas smell the beans first, the matcha is ceremonial, and the laptop stays home.
Natural wood and cobalt blue, tables imported from Denmark, and a terrazzo stone bar.
Woven lights, a marble-look bar, house robusta on one side and guest Geshas on the other.
Glendale's own roaster, where green beans rest in bourbon barrels before they ever hit the cup.
Dual Probat roasters behind big windows, in view of the seating on Willoughby.
The 2016 original of an LA roastery that builds each store as a named room — black palette, natural wood, Colombian coffee at the center.
A maximalist multi-roaster sharing a door with an ice cream shop
A neighborhood shop for and by Eagle Rock, with a rotating cast of California's best.
Larchmont's corner of the GGET operation, pouring its own Vernon roast since 2018.
The White Store — creamy whites and distressed finishes after the weathered homes of Colombian coffee farms.
The Casavieja Store — adobe-textured walls and aged whites after rural Colombian homes, inside Litt Concept House.
The Blue Store — the brand's headquarters room, every wall painted its own shade of one found blue.
Luxxe's counter in the 1948 Brentwood Country Mart — Milanese espresso, Milo & Olive pastries, and no WiFi on purpose.
Goodboybob's roast on Kalita Wave, poured from a counter inside Deus Ex Machina.
Glass walls on a Fourth Street corner, everything but the espresso machine below the counter.
Crocodile-vinyl chairs and a brass chandelier from 2008, pouring its own single-origin roast.
The Grey Store — grey concrete, layered greenery, and the soft diffused light of the Colombian páramos.
GLITCH from Tokyo on black steel shelves, behind full-height glass off Sky Park Circle.
Three months old on Greenleaf Avenue, with a $7 pour-over on its own menu line.
Terracotta and metal in Culver City, pouring SEY, Camber, Roseline and La Cabra.
A curved birch counter under white globe pendants; pour-over priced per cup off a bean list.
A 2,600-square-foot bakery-cafe with custom-built furniture and a pour-over line on the board.
Eight farm-named pour-overs at the top of The Source OC, Buena Park's Koreatown mall.
A foam island bar and a courtyard behind an unassuming concrete facade on Melrose.
Luxxe's newest room, inside the landmark Washington Triangle Building where Culver meets Washington.
Roasting its own since 2013, in the one Commissary room with a full kitchen.
Factory brick, marble mosaic and a hand-painted menu, in the room the architects built.
A coffee counter inside Dudley Market, with weekday pour-overs from rotating roasters.
Nine farm-named pour-overs in a small oak-and-marble shop known for its matcha drinks.
The quiet grey room off Olympic, where the pour-over is the order that counts.
A daytime espresso residency inside Bar Bandini, building signature drinks on farm-level single origins.
Sur's original room — direct-trade coffee roasted in house on a 5kg Mill City, poured as espresso and pour-overs a corridor away from the ocean.
A bright room on PCH across from Billionaire's Beach, with a private terrace in back and Bee House pour-overs.
A Persian memory palace on Main Street, with Sightglass beans on the espresso bar.
A Dan Brunn room on Melrose: beechwood, terrazzo, a living wall, and a steel Sasquatch.
A $5.95 pour-over bar in Garden Grove, buying from Onyx, Ona, Fritz and Perc.
A Marin roaster's name on the marquee of a restored 1935 theater, across from Main Beach.
A glass study room like an indoor greenhouse, and one Colombian farm on pour-over two ways.
A brass-topped standing bar in Pasadena's Burlington Arcade, pouring Yunnan-region coffee.
Pour-over, siphon and sand-brewed Turkish coffee on one menu, six months open in Anaheim.
Luxxe at 2nd & PCH — marble counters, white and yellow room, marina views, and a Naples Blend poured only here.
One block off the sand by the Manhattan Beach pier — a small Luxxe room with its own blend and Chaumont pastries.
Hand pours from Ethiopia's Huke washing station, in a ten-month-old room on Spring Street.
A husband-and-wife roastery in Echo Park, built around a vintage red-white-chrome Faema E61.
Bent-plywood chairs and teal-inlaid tables, built by the print shop the cafe grew out of.
Timber trusses and arched windows in the Fox Theater building, pouring the founder's own roast.
A small Pasadena bar under a twenty-foot mural, pouring coffee it doesn't roast.
Vinyl listening stations along the high counter, inside the Lot 579 food hall at Pacific City.
Single origins only, never blends, with pour-over and a kitchen that made its name on toast.
The 300-square-foot room on Highland, hung with art the founder chose himself.
The roastery itself, where the Probat sits in full view of the counter.
A sunset-gradient room by ORA, run as the LA LGBT Center's training cafe.
Eight rotating pour-overs from Onyx, B&W and Loquat, on the Palos Verdes peninsula.
Luxxe's return to downtown Brentwood — a Milanese espresso bar in the Town & Country center, unplugged by design.
A tasting room in charcoal and dark wood, with the 15-kilo Mill City roaster in view next door.
The burgundy corner room, with a mural outside and the widest food menu Laidrey runs.
A SEY-pouring pop-up inside Buvons Wine Bar, while its 4th Street room gets built.
The first U.S. shop carrying Unspecialty's Korean beans, poured one cup at a time.
A roaster's LA hall: Ethiopian pour-over and Kyoto cold brew under high ceilings.
Thirteen years on Beverly, with a custom pouring station as the room's centerpiece.
A tree built into the seating and five single-origin pour-overs, across from Brea Mall.
Roasts Monday through Friday in a brick room big enough that customers book portrait shoots.
A Diedrich roaster in the front window, a Fortuny lamp from Venice over the room.
Built around a kitchen-island bar, with an outlet at nearly every seat.
Mandarin's second Pasadena room — an elite multi-roaster bar with its own iced pour-over menu.
The original shop on 4th Street, where 'Welcome to the Process' went on the wall.
Sur's Laguna room, steps from the ocean in the space Bear Coast handed over — direct-trade coffee roasted in San Clemente.
A blackened-timber bar and a wall of ranch photographs in a white barn at the canyon edge.
Three hundred square feet in Hollywood, run by a roaster that publishes what it paid.
Black steel, stacked burlap sacks and floor-to-ceiling windows into a working roastery.
Ten Golden Bean medals on a first entry, roasted in the next room
Armenian roasters in a 150-sq-ft pump house tiled by Haas Brothers
An island bar you can walk around, and Panama La Milagrosa 'Mixto' on the brewed menu.
Stereoscope beans and a custom cherry-stained bench, in a Brea room built this summer.
Hex tile, cubby shelves and potted succulents at PCH and Warner, with the roaster next door.
An old meat market turned roastery, with a bagel counter inside
An all-Brazil roaster's bar in a 1931 Art Deco marble lobby
Gold tabletops and a surfboard-topped Ferrari mural, 700 square feet up the hill from Doheny.
An 1890 cottage on Los Rios Street, behind a green picket fence and under mature jacarandas.
A 1964 bank building at Dover and Westcliff, with the electric Bellwether in the walkthrough.
Rocks on the ceiling, a tasting card with every signature drink
Turquoise tile in a 1929 Art Deco tower, and no pour-over by choice
Tuesday roasts and a shaded patio in a 1924 landmark tower
Open at 6am across from the pier, with espresso pulled on its own San Clemente roast.
A garage roaster's first storefront, scarlet macaw on the window
Chemex, V60 and Origami from a small counter inside the Milpa Grille co-op kitchen.
A curved walnut counter, a marble waterfall top, and limewash walls with arched niches.
Fine-dining hours behind it, an Orea brew bar and a champion's roast in a quiet Jefferson Park counter.
Pale wood millwork, a fireplace lounge and star jasmine over the patio at Lido Marina Village.
House-roasted coffee in a retro Thai Town room, with a Filipino accent on the drinks.
A nonprofit-owned cafe on Figueroa, where the bar is also a job-training floor.
Named for unincorporated Altadena, Angeles Crest in the window
The upstairs roastery that supplies every 10 Speed, inside the Pedalers Fork compound.
Highland Park's original roaster, in a corner room built as a hub for the block.
A microlot roastery in Gardena where a dozen house roasts run through the pour-over bar.
Four Barrel since 2018, poured at a bar made from one tree slab
The 2024 US Barista Champion's own bar, kids' play area and all
A backlit gold-lettered menu on black subway tile; the name is short for inclusion.
Vietnamese robusta from one family farm in Da Lat, brewed on a phin.
A four-cup manual brew bar, pouring borrowed beans while the roastery rebuilds.
Istanbul's cezve tradition, roasted in a room behind the bar
A hi-fi vinyl bar from a roaster who lists what he paid at origin
Weathered textures and open light at Boat Canyon; pour-overs named down to the farm.
House-roasted single farms, in bags the co-owner paints by hand
Rwandan beans only, in a Bunker Hill tower that closes at three
A two-group La Marzocco, a die-cut heart on the wall, and a blanket bin on the turf patio.
A gray-and-white room the 2015 US Latte Art Champion designed, with a pour-over Slow-Bar.
Roasting in-house on Diedrich machines built by the founder's brother, open 6am to 8pm.
Cxffeeblack poured in a Carson business park, next door to CSUDH
Brazil only — six named farms behind a 350-square-foot bar
Roasters first — a Filipino coffee bar inside a Westwood sound stage
The owner's drum roaster sits on the live-edge window bar, running six-pound batches.
An architect's roastery inside a City Market produce warehouse
Melbourne roasting in Zaferia, with the roastery in full view
A brick-walled Sawtelle room with a 100-seat patio, pouring its own roast.
House-roasted single origins in the room Augie's left behind
Named-origin V60s near Angel Stadium, with the drippers and kettles sold off the shelf.
Barrels of raw beans up front, roasted to order over an open gas flame in 20 to 30 minutes.
Crowdfunded out of a Compton garage, roasting organic to order
A rhino logo from a two-year-old and a decade of guest roasters
Eight years a roaster, then one white bar with three chairs
A 1995 roastery with a wall of tea and no wifi on purpose
A restored 1914 brick warehouse with the 18-kilo roaster and a full pastry kitchen inside.
A Yerevan-born roaster in Frogtown, sharing a room with a film lab
A hand-lettered COFFEE panel over a red door frame, and four iron tables under red umbrellas.
Fifth-generation Guatemalan beans in the old Buster's corner
A barrel-aged cold brew house on York — 100 liters brewed a week
Salvaged 1970s Taiwanese gates wrapped around a working roaster
Family farm in El Salvador, air roaster behind the counter
A former auto shop with a kids' playpen and its own roast
Cafe de olla under papel picado, trains passing the windows
A study cafe till ten, with three Geisha lots on the hand-drip menu
Paper cups and Koreatown-roasted pour-overs in a 1924 loft
The second Nam, a phin bar on a working Chinatown block.
A Q Grader's Probat, and outlets hanging from the rafters
Hand-roasting since 1987, with the day's log posted online
A two-time Good Food Awards roaster, one stall in a food hall
Swork's coffee corner of 21 years, now run by an Altadena roaster
Light-roast single origins on a plant-filled Robertson patio
A bootstrapped North Long Beach roastery with a national cold brew title.
A basement-born roaster on Culver Blvd, $6 and $8 pour-over tiers
Four pour-overs by lot name, under a 1948 bakery's barrel vaults
A private-label roaster's only open cafe, on an Artesia corner
An independent roaster since 2016, rebuilt on Washington after losing its first room.
Roasting in 14-pound batches behind the counter since 2006
Panela-sweetened espresso from a roaster with farmers-market roots
A Sunset walk-up window pouring its own DTLA-roasted Ethiopias
East Side friends who roast their own single origins in Montebello
All four coffee species, Philippine-grown and roasted in-house
The roaster runs in the room and the tables sit outside
Roast-to-order coffee and a four-lot Slow Menu in downtown Azusa
A Venice room split between Alana's espresso and a breakfast kitchen
Panela-sweetened cappuccino on the quiet side of an Eastside roaster
Cold brew and single-estate lots on The Last Bookstore's mezzanine
A private-label roaster's second shop, four pour-overs on the board
Philippine coffee only — arabica, robusta, liberica and excelsa
A Sydney roaster's only US cafe, with a Vegemite cream top latte
A quiet Cerritos micro-roaster with ube sauce made in house
A roast-to-order cart in a warehouse plaza, blue VW van out front
Named for a surf break, roasting every bag it sells on site
Ten single origins roasted weekly, one high-top to drink them at
A nonprofit roaster's second room, in a brunch shell it inherited
A certified-organic roastery in the Fashion District, closed by noon
A coffee window on the Disney Hall plaza, and the brand's last cafe
A Pasadena family roastery's coffee, served past airport security
