The Best Coffee Shops for a Date in Los Feliz in Los Angeles

Alcove Café & Bakery is in two converted houses with a patio, and it is a charming place to meet and talk on a daytime first date. It serves full meals and is among other Hillhurst restaurants, so the date can continue nearby or stay put. Peak times such as weekends get very crowded.

Maru Coffee is a homegrown roaster on Hillhurst, and the coffee is the focus of its minimalist room of light wood and white walls. Espresso tonics come garnished with dried citrus, and the menu also runs to pour overs, limited releases, house-bottled syrups and ceremonial-grade matcha. It's a small shop with few seats and a line that sometimes stretches to the entrance, so a quick coffee fits best.

Cafe Los Feliz is a cozy bakery and coffee shop on Hillhurst, with pastries and traditional breakfast and lunch items. It is a long-running neighborhood cafe that serves food as well as espresso drinks. Pair a pastry with an espresso for a quick morning date, or stay on for a traditional breakfast or lunch together.

Bru Coffeebar is a friendly neighborhood coffee shop in Los Feliz where the single-origin, direct-trade coffee is made to order, cup by cup. The look is minimalist and the seating is firm rather than plush, so a short coffee date suits it better than a long sit. Share a quick cup there before heading somewhere roomier.

Wood paneling and plenty of light fill Go Get Em Tiger, and the space spills out onto an airy patio. The coffee matches what the original Larchmont shop pours, and the menu adds waffles, a grain bowl and a chicken sandwich. The pastry case is hard to walk past, so save room to share something sweet.

This Sunset Boulevard cafe opened in 2024 as the first U.S. outpost of the Korean chain Camel Coffee, in a roughly 2,000-square-foot space over two floors plus an outdoor patio. The menu at opening included a double espresso with milk under a proprietary cream, milk tea, misugaru (a Korean grain powder), croissants and a hazelnut-butter pastry called le tigre.

Kettl Tea is a tea shop, and it is the brand's flagship cafe in Los Angeles. Wood paneling and a quiet upstairs loft give the interior a Kyoto tea house feel. Your tea is made fresh at the counter. Sit communally, upstairs on the mezzanine, or at a tasting counter that seats four.