Highlight Coffee

Frank Kim managed Cafe Demitasse in Little Tokyo before he opened the first Highlight in 2016, in the historic Hotel Glendale building, and Lincoln Avenue followed in late 2019. After the Eaton fire this one stayed shut until a cleanup in February 2025 and reopened that March, near the Altadena line.

The interior is sparse, a long white room with the bar down one side under pendant lights, a wooden ledge along the other wall and a polished concrete floor. Outside, the building is painted teal and lettered COFFEE TO REBUILD HOPE around a new hand-painted Highlight sign, the front Victor Ving of Greetings Tour freshened when the shop reopened after the fire.