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Cafecito Organico
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA
Cafecito Organico is a Los Angeles coffee company founded in July 2004 by Guatemalan-born Angel Orozco, who began home-roasting coffee after studying Urban Planning and Latin American Studies at UCLA and traveling through the coffee-growing regions of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico. What started as a home roaster selling at the Silverlake Farmers Market grew into small-batch roasting and direct trade with small growers and family farms, principally in Central America, since 2004 — paying a fair price so producers can sustain their livelihoods. Cafecito Organico now runs retail cafés in Silver Lake and Atwater Village alongside coffee subscriptions and wholesale. Source: cafecitoorganico.com, Food GPS, Food Woolf, LA Weekly.
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Cafecito Organico — Silver Lake
534 N Hoover St, Los Angeles, CA 90004Daily 7:00am–5:00pm
+1 213-550-3738
Cafecito Organico — Atwater Village
2999 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039Daily 7:00am–4:00pm
+1 213-550-3738Coffees
5 coffees
An excellent Swiss Water Process decaf from Colombia's Huila region — tastes fabulous as espresso and drip, with toffee, chocolate, and earthy notes. Source: cafecitoorganico.com.
Toffee, chocolate, earthy, smooth
Cafecito Organico's house espresso — current-crop single origin coffees roasted to highlight their characteristics of origin under espresso machine conditions, though it also brews well as filter coffee. This is the coffee used to prepare espresso drinks at the cafés. Source: cafecitoorganico.com.
Chocolate, molasses, cherry
A washed single-farm coffee from Finca El Vergel in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, with tasting notes of orange blossom, chocolate, and caramel. Source: cafecitoorganico.com.
Orange blossom, chocolate, caramel
A washed-process blend sourced from various producers in Honduras' Copán region, with notes of chocolate, tropical fruit, and brown sugar. Source: cafecitoorganico.com.
Chocolate, tropical fruits, brown sugar
A blend of honey- and natural-processed coffee from Hacienda Sonora in Costa Rica, evoking mornings among Costa Rica's rainforests and black-sand beaches with notes of chocolate, brown sugar, and berries. Source: cafecitoorganico.com.
Chocolate, brown sugar, berries