Laidrey Coffee Roasters
Curator’s note
The black-and-gold Probat sits in the room with the bar built low around it, so the person roasting is the person taking the order. Gacia Tachejian ran clinical trials at UCLA before this, and every bag page reads like it: farm, producer, varietal, process, altitude (everything except the printed roast date, the one line she leaves blank).
A cold brew at 5.50.
Fried egg, tomatoes, arugula, feta, pickled onions, garlic aioli and chimichurri on a brioche bun or bagel.
The coffee
Sourcing is exclusively traceable single-origin through importers Sustainable Harvest and Covoya, and all three Laidrey cafes are supplied from this roaster in small light and medium batches. Bag pages go down to farm, producer, micro-region, varietal, process, and altitude, though no roast date appears on any listing.
- Costa Rica Natural Process Coffee, Finca La Guaca – Aiden
- Medium-light
- Caturra, Catuai
- Natural, dried in the whole cherry
- Finca La Guaca (Café Rivense)
Fruity · sugarcane · dried strawberry
- Costa Rica Washed Coffee, Mujeres en Libertad – Noah
- Medium
- Red Catuai, Caturra, Obata
- Fully washed
- Women of Coopelibertad, Mujeres en Libertad
Caramelized brown sugar · spiced apple · cocoa
- Mexico Chiapas, Cafe Delas Ki-Saya Organic Whole Bean Coffee - Audrey
- Medium
- Caturra, Costa Rica, Marsellesa, Typica
- Washed, fermented 12-17 hours, sun-dried on patios
Honey · dark chocolate · mandarin
- Ethiopian Coffee – Guji Hambella Washed Grade 1 - Leo
- Medium
- Washed, Grade 1
- Dimtu Washing Station
Chocolate · Macadamia · Cream · Dates
- Guatemala Coffee - Huehuetenango Washed Whole Bean Organic Coffee
- Medium
- Caturra, Pache, Catuai
- Washed
Chocolate · Toasted Almonds · Hazelnut
- Honduras La Avi Dark Roast Coffee Beans
- Dark
- Catuai, Bourbon, Lempira, Pacas, IHCAFE 90
- Washed
- La Avi project (organic-certified smallholder farmers)
Dark Chocolate · Spice · Caramel Apple
- Decaf Coffee - Colombia Sugarcane Process
- Medium
- Typica, Villa Sarchi
- Sugarcane Process
- Azahar Farm
Chocolate · Cherry · Biscotti
The room
Tachejian took the room's cue from Indonesian cafes (concrete against wood, navy walls, big windows) and set the bar low around the black-and-gold Probat so the person who roasted your coffee is the one standing in front of you. She wanted space to walk around and not feel cramped, which sounds like a modest ambition until you count how few coffee bars manage it.
The vibe
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People
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