Cafe
3 Square Café + Bakery
1121 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90291
310-399-6504
Hans Röckenwagner’s new bakery and café are set side by side. Pick up Julius Meinl coffee or tea, house-made bread, pastries…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Venice
Category: Cafe, Restaurants
Aroma Bakery Cafe
18047 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA, 91316
818-757-0477
Pastries emerge from the stone oven hourly, and the house makes a grand array of fruit preserves.
Neighborhood: Encino
Category: Cafe, Restaurants
Bloom Café
5544 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90019
323-934-6900
Somehow the blond wood, cement floors, and Technicolor chairs don’t seem out of place on this stretch of Pico with its hair salons and body shops…
Neighborhood: Downtown, Los Angeles, Mid-City
Category: Cafe, Restaurants
Café Midi
148 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-939-9860
This very French café with indoor and outdoor seating is open until 5:30 daily…
Neighborhood: Hancock Park, Los Angeles
Category: Cafe, French, Restaurants
Chado Tea Room
369 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA, 90012
Few cultural institutions can claim as essential a dining experience as the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Eat, Cafe, Restaurants
Cliff’s Edge
3626 W. Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake, CA, 90026
323-666-6116
Silver Lake’s candlelit grotto recently brought on James Beard-nominated chef Benjamin Bailly (Fraîche, Petrossian), whose farm-fresh menu is tasteful but doesn’t punish the pocketbook.
Neighborhood: Silver Lake
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA 2014: Eat, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Eat, Cafe, Restaurants
Flake
513 Rose Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90291
310-396-2333
Finally, a Venice breakfast spot that’s open early—6:30 during the week, 7 on weekends. Cereal’s the star here…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Venice
Category: Cafe, Restaurants
Milk
7290 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-939-6455
The gleaming white space is unrecognizable from its days as the Richard Tyler store…
Neighborhood: Fairfax, Los Angeles, West Hollywood
Category: Cafe, Restaurants
Mishi’s Strudel Bakery and Cafe
309 W. 7th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90731
310-832-6474
The grandmotherly charm of Mishi’s Strudel Bakery and Café in San Pedro draws you in, but the polished eastern European cooking and the Hungarian-style pastries make this more than an old-world novelty.
Category: Bakery/Bagel/Donut, Cafe, Restaurants
Sqirl
720 N. Virgil Ave., Ste. 4, Los Angeles, CA, 90029
323-284-8147
You could go to Sqirl just to read the blackboard
Neighborhood: East Hollywood
Category: Bakery/Bagel/Donut, Best of LA, Best of LA 2015: Eat, Best of LA: 2015, Best of LA: Eat, Cafe, Fusion/Eclectic/Global, Health Food, Organic, Restaurants
Superba Food + Bread
1900 S. Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90291
310-907-5075
If you read our article on the culinary rise of toast, then you know: Toast is hot.
Neighborhood: Venice
Category: American, Bakery/Bagel/Donut, Breakfast/Brunch, Cafe, Restaurants
The Milk Shop
7290 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-939-6455
If you ask the legions of high schoolers who flock here during the café’s late-summer hours, they’ll steer you to the Milkie Way
Neighborhood: Beverly Grove
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Eat, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Eat, Cafe, Restaurants
Urth Caffé
8565 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA, 90069
310-659-0628
It’s not hard to get a buzz these days. But the Urth Caffé, which started as a mail-order business in 1989, blends the most conscientious brews.
Neighborhood: West Hollywood
Category: Cafe, Restaurants