Stumptown Coffee

The Arts District outpost of this third-wave coffee company helped catalyze L.A.'s coffee culture boom back in the early aughts, and the Santa Fe café still a solid place to get your fix of artisan-grade caffeine today and sit a spell on their small, shaded outdoor patio (for now, Stumptown offers no inside seating). Housed in a 7,000-square foot warehouse space in the Arts District, the building boasts a 60-kilo Probat coffee roaster, all the better to make drip coffee and espresso-based drinks, plus tea and seasonal specials.