M Cafe La Brea Kitchen

M Café is a "sleeper" place to enjoy a healthful meal with soothing music to tame the inner savage beast. M Café has great lineage having La Petite Chaya & Chaya Brasserie as its forbears. This delightful eatery is in the same space as the late, great Zozo which featured cuisine by noted Chef, John Sedlar, placed within a gift shop specializing in patio furniture and other accoutrements. Go way to the back to the ordering window. Omakasè Bentō Fish: 1) Gomoku Rice: Nice, nutty, mildly starchy rice with soy sauce braised Hijiki, fine, small brown kelp leaves. This serves as a bland palate contrast to more strong flavoured foods. 2) Wasabi Sweet Potato & Pomegranate Salad: The extra starchy sweet potato, sweet-sour, juicy Pomegranate melds well with bitter radicchio, green mixed greens. 3) House Pickled Beets & Braised Hijiki: With orange beets salt brined, touch of Japanese vinegar. Goes great with the Gomuku rice. 4) Steamed Garden Veggies: Bright green broccoli with understated dulcet citrus sauce. 5) Grilled Faroe Island Salmon: Touch grilled, moist flakey yet plush wild Salmon. Chimichurri sauce is thick, buttery virgin olive with green, medicinal fresh oregano. 6) Cacio e Pepe: Translucent, Cappelli d'Angeli (angel hair), limp, and soft. Unusual in that the pasta ingredient is made from nutrient rich Kelp. Black pepper, cashew nut cream. 7) Curried Califlower Clean, light, healthful, mostly vegetable based cuisine that has subtle complexity and requires time consuming techniques. After eating this Omakasè (oh mah kah seh) Bentō in its charming, colorfully patterned Bentō compartmentalized tray, you feel elevated. Based on Macro biotic principals, slow fast food that approaches fine cuisine for fraction of the cost. I was impressed by the almost curative aspect of this Bentō box. 5 Stars PS However, not recommended for fast food aficionados who dearly love smash burgers, cheeto encrusted burritos, county fair fried oreo cookies, etc.

Absolutely love the atmosphere here! The amount and balance of food felt just right - I love that it wasn't too filling and delicious. It is tucked inside the well curated store full of beautiful goods and delightful jazz mixed music. Came here during dineLA around 12PM and got the Omokase Bento Fish. The salmon was cooked just perfectly and tasted delicious with the chimmichurri sauce. I was surprised by how Cacio e Pepe Kelp Noodles tasted, I was expecting it to be heavier but it was surprisingly lighter than I thought. I love the Wasabi Sweet Potato and Pomegranate Salad, this is something I would love to eat more of at home alongside the salmon. The staff there are so kind to check on me during my time there. Seating? Indoor & Outdoor available. Indoor there is a seating table that can accomondate 8+ people. And there's a couple other 2 seaters. Outdoor has a couple 2-3 seaters as well. Restroom? Not sure. Parking? Street Parking or parking lot nearby.

I have been delightfully surprised by this cafe. It is delicious. There is an art even to the simplest things. So far I have had the albacore tuna sandwich which was the perfect amount of tuna, lettuce and tomato on the perfect multigrain bread toasted just right. The fries are some of the best fries I have had in a while. The other thing I've tried is the panko crusted rockfish sandwich. My god is this good. Again, from the bun, to the slaw, to the fried fish the proportions are perfect, making for a delightful experience. Their ingredients are fresh and they have taken the time to only use the healthiest of ingredients in their items and you can tell. M Cafe, I am sorry to hear that after 20 years you had to change your location, but with that said I am so happy to have stumbled upon you in my neighborhood. They are located currently as a pop up in an antique store which is insane bc the food is so good you would not know unless you try it.

Amazing bento box!!

Great and delicious healthy food! We absolutely love M Cafe

Such a unique cool place. The fact they could accommodate an amazing gf vegan tempeh sandwich for my partner was incredible. Definitely get the cornflake fried anything while you’re here. This is as good as a vegan gf sandwich gets in the world. Their other dishes and bentos looked great. Will be back. They also have meat and fish for the people with looser dietary habits.

Y’ALL - I audibly gasped when I saw M Cafe reopened and had to order it immediately! This was one of my fav spots for healthy & hearty food from mid 2021-early 2024 and when I found out the Melrose location had closed, I was so upset! So when I saw it pop up, I had to order the vegan club & tofu “egg” salad - my old favorite. I wish I could say I got pictures, but I inhaled the food as soon as I got it lol. But to this day, it still holds up. That sandwich on the multigrain bread that was just perfectly crispy, the fresh veggies, the savory vegan mayo, and the flavorful “fakeon” (veggie bacon), and the tofu salad was just as zesty and yummy as I remember. So happy to have found this place again. Pleaseeeeee check it out if you haven’t before. It’s truly an LA gem 💕

Glad you're back but def had a subpar order today. Chopped salad really anemic for price and you REALLY, REALLY need to cut holes in your fry delivery box to keep the fries crisp. Totally soggy mess. Ketchup still great, though. Bottle it again!

I am so happy that MCafe is back !!! We've picked up twice now and it's just as good as it was when it was in its original location. I want this place to explode again so they can bring back more menu items (cough cough, strawberry shortcake, cough cough)

I used to go to M Cafe several times a week and when they closed, was SOOO devastated. Absolutely love the crispy fish sandwich and their probiotic slaws. I hope they succeed. Really rooting for this place!