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Best Cafes in Los Angeles

A list of the 8 best cafes in Los Angeles, including Go Get Em Tiger (Larchmont Village, Los Angeles). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.

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Updated Aug 20, 2026Checked Aug 20, 2026

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    Larchmont Village, Los Angeles

    Opened in 2013 by former Intelligentsia baristas Kyle Glanville and Charles Babinski, this Larchmont cafe uses a bar-style ordering system instead of a queue.

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  2. 2

    Los Feliz, Los Angeles

    Los Feliz cafe founded by Jacob Park and Joonmo Kim in 2016, named for the Korean word for mountaintop, rotating three specialty roasters instead of roasting in-house.

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  3. 3

    Silver Lake, Los Angeles

    Sunset Junction coffeebar opened in 2007 as Intelligentsia's first location outside Chicago, where the roaster was founded in 1995.

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    Silver Lake, Los Angeles

    Silver Lake cafe opened in 2015 in a MASS Architects-designed former audio-equipment repair shop; taken over in 2020 by the founders of Echo Park's Woodcat Coffee.

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    Echo Park, Los Angeles

    Echo Park storefront from organic-coffee roaster Canyon Coffee, founded in 2016 by Ally Walsh and Casey Wojtalewicz, opened as their first cafe in 2022.

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    Echo Park, Los Angeles

    Echo Park outpost of Stereoscope Coffee, a roaster founded in 2013 by a team of baristas and Q-graders, known locally as a minimalist, laptop-friendly space on Sunset Blvd.

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    Highland Park, Los Angeles

    Highland Park flagship of Civil Coffee, founded in 2012 as a mobile espresso cart by brothers Alex and Alan Morales before opening this storefront in 2015.

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    Chinatown, Los Angeles

    Chinatown coffee bar in the Far East Plaza, opened in 2015 by former molecular biologist Jack Benchakul, known for its minimalist space and palm-sugar Thai Tonic.

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