One of my top three favorite coffee shops in Los Angeles has a new home! Over the past six months or so, I’ve become a frequent customer of this coffee “pop up” shop and in recent weeks I had learned that Yeekai was going to move to a more permanent location. And! Yesterday it finally happened!
I had to miss the grand opening yesterday because I was working, but I ended up making my way over there this morning and what I found at Proof Bakery in Atwater Village was my new favorite bakery/coffee shop in one.
In my mind, I was just going for the coffee…but this place is really the whole package. Come for coffee, stay for the cake!
The decor of the shop is sleek and simple. The cakes and pastries are all so neat and dainty, it was hard to choose what to order. There are tables and chairs and the layout was very well thought out. Pastries on the left and Cognoscenti is set up on the right.
As soon as I walked in, I felt like I was transported somewhere else. Seattle? Vancouver? I think the rainy weather added to this feeling.
Cake. Not the band…
So they have biscuits and pastries, but they also have these amazing looking cakes. Just look at these pictures! Amazing!
Their cake of the day was the Toasted Lemon Meringue Chiffon Cake which cost $5/slice. I decided to go for it because the cake looked amazing and they happened to be offering it as slices.
As for coffee, instead of going with my usual namesake drink, the “LD” I went with a cortado. Of course it was perfection! D’uh!
Yeekai is still using Four Barrell beans and you can get a nice variety of coffee beverages, included pour over. His coffee is amazing!
I could do this every Saturday morning…
Seriously. This place is really really really FANTASTIC. A perfect place to stop by for some coffee and some treats. I am completely in lust with this shop. They have done an amazing job of decorating and I can see it becoming part of my weekend rotation. They have completely outdone themselves.
Soon, our friends Tien and Caroline joined RE, Jeffrey and I and we quickly got settled with coffee and treats. It was a morning spent with friends talking about food, travel, coffee and more. I was telling D that it was like the movies, when people meet up at a coffee shop and talk for hours. Except, today wasn’t a movie. It was my life, and I’m so lucky to have met such amazing people lately.
Cognoscenti’s signature owl.
Seriously, make it a point to check out this shop. If you are near Atwater Village you can find Yeekai here Wednesday – Sunday from 8am-3pm.
We ended up hanging out here for a while, and I’m sure we’ll all be back as often as possible. So happy for Cognoscenti and the crew at Proof Bakery! I’m a total fangirl! Love it!
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