Filter coffee bars in Los Angeles
Where Los Angeles takes pour-over and batch brew seriously. Single origins, careful extraction, beans that change with the season.
32 cafés · United States
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Cognoscenti Coffee Culver City
Cognoscenti on Washington Boulevard is the definitive specialty-forward roastery-cafe on the Westside, operating with…
Endorffeine
Jack Benchakul, a former biochemist and James Beard Award finalist, personally brews every cup in this nine-seat Far…
Go Get Em Tiger Larchmont
Founded by US Barista Champions Kyle Glanville and Charles Babinski, Go Get Em Tiger set a new standard for LA…
Intelligentsia Coffee Silver Lake
The Silver Lake flagship that helped establish LA as a serious specialty coffee city, anchored at Sunset Junction…
Verve Coffee Roasters West Hollywood
Santa Cruz roaster Verve brought its farm-direct program to Melrose Avenue in a space designed by Commune Design with…
Boxx Coffee Roasters
Founded in Istanbul in 2015 and transplanted to the Arts District in 2021, Boxx is the only LA cafe offering…
Dayglow Silver Lake
Owner Tohm Ifergan curates up to twenty rotating international roasters at any given time, making Dayglow one of the…
Document Coffee Bar
Tucked into the base of the Wilshire corridor in Koreatown, Document is an intimate specialty cafe that delivers well…
Loquat Coffee
Loquat is the roastery-forward sibling brand to Kumquat, focused exclusively on direct-trade micro-lots and Cup of…
The Boy and The Bear
The Boy and The Bear brings a focused Colombian single-origin program to Culver City, roasting in-house and sourcing…
Civil Coffee
Civil Coffee anchors Highland Park's specialty scene on Figueroa Street with its own roasting program and a warmly…
Dinosaur Coffee
POC and woman-owned Dinosaur Coffee sits at the corner of Sunset and Fountain in Silver Lake, serving locally roasted…
Kumquat Coffee Highland Park
Kumquat on York Boulevard rotates beans from world-class roasters including Fritz Coffee, Lot 61, and Market Lane,…
LAMILL Coffee Silver Lake
An LA original since 2008, LAMILL on Silver Lake Boulevard was one of the first cafes in the city to treat coffee…
Maru Coffee Arts District
Maru's Arts District flagship on Santa Fe Avenue is set inside a luminous industrial space with handmade Portland…
Lumen Coffee
Born in Yerevan, Armenia in 2021, Lumen's Highland Park outpost on Figueroa Street occupies a distinctive corner…
Blue Bottle Coffee Abbot Kinney
Blue Bottle's Abbot Kinney location roasts beans within 48 hours of brewing and pulls single-origin pour-overs on a…
Cognoscenti Coffee DTLA
The Fashion District outpost of Cognoscenti on San Julian Street brings the Culver City roaster's precise specialty…
Dayglow West Hollywood
The West Hollywood outpost of Dayglow brings Tohm Ifergan's celebrated multi-roaster curation to the Huntley Drive…
Eightfold Coffee Arts District
Eightfold's second location on Mateo Street in the Factory Place Arts Complex brings the same Heart Coffee program to…
Eightfold Coffee Echo Park
Eightfold brought Heart Coffee Roasters' Portland-roasted beans to Echo Park in a clean, airy space on Sunset…
Go Get Em Tiger Arts District
GGET's Arts District outpost on Alameda Street serves the creative and design community of the area's repurposed…
Go Get Em Tiger Culver City
The Culver City location on Washington Boulevard brings GGET's full-service espresso and brunch concept to the…
Go Get Em Tiger Highland Park
Located on Figueroa in the heart of Highland Park's coffee-dense corridor, this GGET outpost brings the same…
Go Get Em Tiger Los Feliz
Set on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Feliz, this GGET location combines the brand's in-house roasting program with an…
Intelligentsia Coffee Venice
Set on Abbot Kinney Boulevard amid Venice's creative energy, this renovated coffeebar runs a full draft cold coffee…
Maru Coffee Los Feliz
The original Maru location on Hillhurst Avenue established the minimalist aesthetic and exacting coffee standards…
Stereoscope Coffee Echo Park
Founded in 2013 by a team of Q-graders and seasoned baristas, Stereoscope has expanded from Orange County to Echo…
Stereoscope Coffee Hollywood
Stereoscope's Santa Monica Boulevard Hollywood location extends the roaster's mission of accessible specialty coffee…
Tierra Mia Coffee DTLA
The Downtown LA location on Spring Street brings Tierra Mia's house-roasted Latin-inspired coffee to the heart of the…
Tierra Mia Coffee Highland Park
Tierra Mia roasts its own beans at a Pico Rivera facility and serves them with genuine Latin flair at its Monte Vista…
Woodcat Coffee
The Echo Park original from which Dinosaur Coffee was born, Woodcat has been roasting small-batch specialty coffee…
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