The entry to the brand new Stumptown Espresso Roasters cafe and coaching heart within the former Starland Theatre in Los Angeles. All photographs courtesy of Stumptown Espresso Roasters.
The curtain has risen on a brand new period at a historic former neighborhood movie show in Los Angeles, the place Stumptown Espresso Roasters opened a brand new flagship cafe and regional coaching heart on Aug. 29.
Occupying the surviving entrance portion of the previous Starland Theatre in Lincoln Heights, the cafe blends Stumptown’s Portland, Oregon-born aesthetic with preserved parts of the historic constructing.
Opened in 1913 as a Globe Theatre No. 7, designed by architect George B. Campbell, the constructing retains its reduction facade, giant arched entrance and terrazzo tile on the entry, the place a brand new technology of company is welcomed.
“We have been instantly drawn to these particulars and wished the brand new cafe to protect their presence relatively than obscure them,” Stumptown Director of Retail Julianne Pike informed Every day Espresso Information. “We wished the cafe to really feel vibrant, ethereal and heat, with a stability of historic architectural particulars and up to date parts that make the house really feel inviting and lived-in.”
Customized stereo audio system, benches and different parts have been designed by Jon and Masa Kleinhample of Klein Company, which additionally helped form the cafe’s palette of heat colours and pure supplies. Wooden and uncovered authentic brick add texture, whereas giant entrance home windows, preserved architectural particulars and authentic tile carry via the constructing’s historical past.
“We wished the house to really feel prefer it belongs to each Stumptown and Lincoln Heights: heat, approachable and stuffed with character, whereas respecting the distinctive historical past of the constructing,” Pike mentioned. “We additionally included stools produced from fallen timber collected round Los Angeles, bringing one other distinctly native, natural ingredient into the house.”
The format accommodates each grab-and-go site visitors and prospects staying within the cafe. Cafe Supervisor Adrian Luna oversees a bar producing drinks with Stumptown’s Hair Bender mix, its Trapper Creek decaf and rotating single-origin espressos, ready on a cream-colored two-group La Marzocco Linea PB paired with a Mazzer Robur S and two Mazzer Kony S grinders.
Stumptown’s Los Angeles space supervisor Anna Bouchard and space educator Nicole Gharghoury will lead coaching for employees and wholesale companions in a separate onsite lab geared up with two Linea PBs and extra grinders.
Extra gear and coaching gear has come out of storage following the January 2024 closure of Stumptown’s former Los Angeles flagship roastery cafe within the Arts District.
Based in Portland, Oregon, in 1999, Stumptown expanded to Los Angeles with its Arts District roastery cafe in September 2013. A second Los Angeles cafe opened within the Style District in Might 2019 however closed in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Stumptown opened a Pasadena cafe in February 2024.
Stumptown at present operates 9 cafes outdoors its Portland airport places: three in Portland, two within the Los Angeles space, three in New York Metropolis and one in Kyoto, Japan. Southern California cafes are equipped by Stumptown’s Portland roastery. The Starland venture had been in improvement for greater than a 12 months earlier than Keurig Dr Pepper acquired management of Stumptown father or mother JDE Peet’s on April 1.
Stumptown Espresso Roasters Los Angeles flagship is situated at 2624 N. Broadway in Los Angeles.
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Howard Bryman
Howard Bryman is the affiliate editor of Every day Espresso Information by Roast Journal. He’s based mostly in Portland, Oregon.
