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Espresso
Verve Coffee Roasters' Buena Vista dark roast.
Matcha Latte
Organic Rishi green tea from Kagoshima, Japan.
Get "Centered" Sandwich
Freshly baked ciabatta bread with scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, bacon jam, applewood smoked bacon and arugula.
Curator’s note
Liberation is the Los Angeles LGBT Center's own cafe, opened in 2020 on the Anita May Rosenstein Campus, its counter developed by chef Nick Panepinto as the customer-facing end of the Center's Culinary Arts training for LGBTQ+ youth and seniors. Since February 2026 it closes on Sundays so the baristas can get their beauty sleep, and the cafe's revenue goes back into the Center's programs.
The Coffee
The bar pours espresso drinks, iced coffee and cold brew, and the tea is Rishi's, down to the matcha latte's organic green tea from Kagoshima. The hot chocolate is Guittard dark chocolate, and the Cardamommy runs on a syrup made in house.
- Streetlevel
Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia
- Roast
- Medium
Clementine · Red Apple · Honeycomb
- Buena Vista Dark Roast
Colombia, Southern Colombia
- Roast
- Dark
Chocolate · Red Apple · Maple
The Vibe
ORA drew the room for Liberation in a glass corner on Santa Monica Boulevard and hung its windows with sheer panels of red, orange and yellow, so the light comes in tinted under white paper lanterns and an open white ceiling, and the AIA gave it a 2023 Small Project Award. Behind the white-tiled counter a red wall holds a framed photograph of a Liberation House on North Van Ness, and pale wood tables with sage-green chairs run back to a curved yellow wall.
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