Yala Coffee

4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: October 31 | Eater LA

"Valley dweller or not, it’s worth jolting yourself out of your usual routine to visit this Studio City cafe that draws on the owner’s Iraqi family history. Unique sand coffee preparations — brewed on hot sand with extra-fine grounds — arrive in sometimes irreverent forms, like the Evil Eye, a cortado-sized drink with a drippy brown sugar rim and a pupil formed from grounds at the center. Other standouts include the cardamom cream top–crowned Yala, espresso tonic with apricot-cardamom preserves, and fig-and-vanilla matcha lattes, plus blood orange and orange blossom–infused cold brew. If you can tear yourself from the stellar drinks, the pastry case offers gargantuan pistachio croissants and savory za’atar–inflected pastries." - Eater Staff