# Best Cafes in Los Angeles

Independent coffee shops and specialty roasters serving Los Angeles, from Silver Lake's early third-wave outposts to newer Echo Park roasteries. · community starter list

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.

**Where:** [Third Platz](/.md) / [United States](/united-states.md) / Los Angeles
**Updated:** 2026-08-20 18:19:48

1. **[Go Get Em Tiger](/e/go-get-em-tiger---1075.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://tastecooking.com/go-get-em-tiger-didnt-just-raise-bar-changed/, https://gget.com/pages/locations
2. **[Maru Coffee](/e/maru-coffee---1076.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://sprudge.com/maru-coffee-109792.html, https://www.marucoffee.com/
3. **[Intelligentsia Coffee](/e/intelligentsia-coffee---1077.md)** (cafe) — Sunset Junction coffeebar opened in 2007 as Intelligentsia's first location outside Chicago, where the roaster was founded in 1995. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia_Coffee_%26_Tea, https://www.intelligentsia.com/pages/silver-lake-coffeebar
4. **[Dinosaur Coffee](/e/dinosaur-coffee---1078.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.mass-arch.com/dinosaur-coffee-2, https://woodcatcoffee.com/blogs/news/woodcat-dinosaur
5. **[Canyon Coffee](/e/canyon-coffee---1079.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://dailycoffeenews.com/2022/09/05/canyon-coffee-ventures-deeper-with-first-los-angeles-cafe/, https://canyoncoffee.co/echo-park
6. **[Stereoscope Coffee](/e/stereoscope-coffee---1080.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.theinfatuation.com/los-angeles/reviews/stereoscope-coffee, https://www.stereoscopecoffee.com/connect/our-locations
7. **[Civil Coffee](/e/civil-coffee---1081.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://sprudge.com/build-outs-of-summer-civil-coffee-in-los-angeles-california-78669.html, https://civilcoffee.com/pages/highland-park
8. **[Endorffeine](/e/endorffeine---1082.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://nhm.org/stories/endorffeine, https://sprudge.com/endorffeine-90449.html, https://endorffeine.coffee/home/

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