Yala Coffee

Baristas at this Sunset Boulevard cafe brew coffee the traditional Iraqi way, heating it over sand until it turns thick and frothy, a method the founder built around growing up in a second-generation Iraqi and Iraqi-Armenian household in Los Angeles. The sand coffee comes straight or as the Evil Eye, cut with cardamom cream and a sugared rim, alongside drinks like fig matcha lattes and espresso tonics sweetened with apricot. Free WiFi keeps the tables full of laptops, and there's a second location in Studio City.