"Los Angeles is overflowing with coffee shops, but you won’t find many like Yala Coffee. Case in point: their sand-brewed coffee. This Middle Eastern-inspired cafe brews coffee to order in a heated bed of sand and rims the paper cup its served in with honey and crystal sugar to sweeten each sip. You can also order more common espresso drinks with delicious twists, like the iced Yala Latte with brown sugar syrup and a cap of cardamom-flavored cream. Yala has wifi and a few seats if you want to linger and work, plus chairs on the sidewalk for taking in the Ventura Boulevard traffic with your double shot." - Sylvio Martins