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Pure Matcha
Choose classic, organic or rare matcha.
Matcha Cloud Cream
Matcha comes with vanilla or strawberry cream.
Slice of Matcha Basque cheesecake
Matcha infused Basque-style cheesecake with a graham cracker crust.
Curator’s note
Josh Zad, who opened Alfred Coffee on Melrose Place in 2013, built Café Matcha on a diner's logic: matcha as easy to come by as a diner's bottomless coffee. The second shop opened here on August 5, 2026, at the address where Alfred first went into tea.
The Coffee
The house Tempo matcha is a Yabukita from Kyotanabe, just southwest of Uji, made under the guidance of tea appraiser Hiroshi Kobayashi, whose family has grown tea in Uji since 1827. The board builds it into a Matcha Cortado, a Matcha Cloud Cream and a Banana Cream Matcha Latte, with hojicha and loose-leaf tea, hot or cold steeped, beside them.
The Vibe
Navy tile in orange grout wraps the storefront and turns up again behind the bar, where the counter front is laid in cream, apricot and cobalt squares over a butter-yellow floor. Walnut panelling runs the banquette wall above olive and blue vinyl, with aluminum-banded tables on chrome pedestals and a framed sign that reads "Take your time".
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