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Volcano Latte
Espresso sweetened with demerara brown sugar and topped with woodfire-smoked sea salt.
Curator’s note
In Laguna Beach, Leon Wansikehian wanted a heightened focus on espresso. The city's planning commission approved a coffee crafthouse at 500 Broadway about three years before Play opened it in the first week of December 2025.
The Coffee
Single-origin shots come off a La Marzocco Leva X lever machine and milk drinks go through a KB90, with an EG-1 and an EK43 grinding, both on SSP burrs. Pour-over is brewed on April brewers, cold brew steeps overnight in Toddy brewers, and batch runs on Curtis machines with a Litmus spray head.
The Vibe
Laguna Beach architect Anders Lasater drew the room, the first Play the company laid out from the ground up. Concrete walls rise to an exposed steel beam and joist ceiling cut by a skylight, layered metal pendants hang past the dark bar, and seats run along the floor-to-ceiling glass, with warm wood banquettes inside and a covered patio at the front.
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