Go Get Em Tiger, Los Feliz

Kyle Glanville and Charles Babinski met working together at Intelligentsia, then set out on their own in the summer of 2012, first as G&B Coffee running out of Sqirl and then as a stand in Grand Central Market. Los Feliz, their third shop, opened on Hollywood Boulevard on Labor Day 2016 with chef Ria Wilson, formerly of Sqirl and Canale, running a mostly-female kitchen; in 2018 the company built its own roasting operation in Vernon.

The shop sits in a renovated wood-built structure set back from Hollywood Boulevard, sharing the building with McConnell's Fine Ice Creams. There's no seating inside, just a standing bar along deep, recessed window sills and a long counter with a three-group La Marzocco. The design was built around a lean-and-chat bar meant to keep customers and baristas close, with the real living room out front: a raised patio built symmetrically around two trees, benches and bar stools on each side, doors that open concertina-style to pull the inside out. It reads less like a coffee shop with a patio and more like a patio with a coffee bar attached.