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Curator’s note
Amanda-Jane Thomas, raised in Brooklyn with a Harvard law degree, chose Inglewood for the first Sip & Sonder because Black culture was thriving there, and named it for sonder, the realization that every passerby is living a life as vivid as one's own. That flagship closed at the end of 2025.
The Coffee
Sip & Sonder began roasting for itself in Inglewood, the founders on a Bellwether, and today one of its three bags, Native Mezcla, is roasted in Mexico City by its partner Tostador 1.
- Native Mezcla
Ethiopia and Mexico, Sidama, Ethiopia and Veracruz, Mexico
sweet juicy berry · lime · stone fruit
- Kismet
Brazil and Colombia
- Roast
- Dark
milk chocolate · caramel · toasted marshmallow
- Blend 108
South America, East Africa, and Oceania
caramel · stone fruit · sweet spice
The Vibe
Sip & Sonder's outpost on the Music Center plaza is a stainless-steel service cart under a red canopy, PASTRIES, LATTES, COFFEE and MILK lettered along its header, with a pastry case at one end, a menu board at the other and trailing plants along the counter. Aluminum cafe chairs and tables stand on the paving in front of it, and a curved white Music Center building rises behind.
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