Woodcat Coffee

A man who wires and plumbs his own coffee shop is not usually the same man who turns up on a Honduran farm ten years later, but Saadat Awan has done both, and the through line is that he would rather learn a thing than buy it. He and Janine run Dinosaur Coffee in Silver Lake off the same roast, and the house blend is called Dinocat, about as subtle as they felt like being.

Saadat Awan has roasted on a Loring S35 since 2020 and travels to origin himself, including a 2024 visit to producer David Argueta's farm in Honduras. The current single-origin lineup includes a washed Kenya Murang'a from producer Elizabeth Waithera at 1,800 masl, SL28 variety, alongside two house blends, Dinocat Espresso and Cosmic Decaf.

Saadat built the shop himself in 2014 (architecture, furniture, electrical and plumbing), centered on a vintage Faema E61 espresso machine he tracked down in Riverside and had refurbished by LA Brew Techs. The room is a former vintage-clothing storefront on Sunset with benches out front.