Americano was good but service for takeout was slow.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 4
Heidi Goedhart
Fantastic patio, delicious food, and helpful staff. Dog friendly patio is a great spot to enjoy a coffee and brunch.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Michael Sherman
Cool little spot
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Kay
Mid. Even before the TikTok BS of last summer, Alta was decent at best. Now they make one of the worst watered down, bitter iced lattes I’ve ever had. And consistently. Consistently terrible. The service is uninspiring. The patio is decent on a summer day, sure. The pastries and cookies are mid. Just a dump at this point. Btw, influencers, stay in LA and it’s just big train chai mix. Buy it on Amazon. Wish I had better words for Alta but this place doesn’t need to be there anymore. Also, their tortilla chips are a travesty.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Cierra Voelkl
TLDR: vegetarian approved, coffee lover approved, remote worker approved (if you have a hotspot), street parking only
I came to Alta Coffee to do some remote work. I had just moved back to the area but I’d only ever been here once before maybe 10 years ago on the morning of one of my birthdays. I’m so glad I decided to check it out again and do some work here. I interacted with two workers who were so sweet. I got here a little after 1 pm so it was the woman who took my order as well as another blonde woman later on who ended up being the one to check on my table. She was incredibly sweet and made me feel welcome being there.
Food and drink: I got the bueno bowl with veggie sausage and no avocado as well as an iced sugar free vanilla almond milk latte. I usually only drink soy and not always a fan of almond but I couldn’t even tell. The latte was absolutely fantastic! The bowl was soooo good. It’s the perfect size for one person. I couldn’t finish it as I just eat less than the average person but if I was hungrier, I would have easily finished it. I do fully appreciate serving breakfast all day! I’m also vegetarian so I love love love they offer multiple vegetarian options on top of having vegetarian sausage as a protein option for breakfast.
Atmosphere: I sat outside in the perfect spot where I could get a little sun but still see my laptop. Keep in mind, they do NOT have wifi so I couldn’t call it the ideal remote work coffee shop compared to it being more of a place to hang out and chill but I used my phone’s hotspot. Overall cell service was pretty fast so I had no problem using my hotspot. Also, it seems as if some great people frequent there. Everyone coming in seemed so friendly but it could have to do with it being 80° by the beach in January and clear skies.
Parking: It’s street parking only but during the weekday, it was super easy to pull up front and have a spot. I’m not sure about the weekends.
If it were busier, like a weekend day, I wouldn’t have hung around for 3 hours so I could free up a table. I’ll definitely be back to do work or even just grab a meal or coffee.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
James FitzGerald
If I lived here I would be here once per week, on a weekday morning, for the 2 egg breakfast, great music, and coffee of the day!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Shannon
My usual order is their iced toffee latte. Great every time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ezra Elise
Decided to try this place out for the first time. Ordered for pickup, Hot Candy Cane Mocha which was just a regular coffee, and a Turkey and Cranberry Wrap and got a Turkey BLT instead. $25 on a fail.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
wynter shetley
Went to Alta Coffee in hopes of it being a nice environment to get some work done on my laptop. Unfortunately it turned into having a sticky table, with no outlets/wifi, and two teenagers behind the counter talking so loudly about their drunken night out the night before. Then midway they turned the music up so loud I could hear it through my noise canceling headphones! I don’t usually leave reviews and didn’t want to sound like a “Karen” but it was a mids experience that I felt the need that other first customers like myself could get an insight of. Will have to try another local coffee shop next time.
Used to be a great coffee shop, now it’s mid. No ceramic mugs for coffee, can’t pour your own cream, and service is often unapologetically slow and disinterested. Back in the 90’s this place was coffeehouse perfection. If it only still did that, it would be great. If it updated itself to rival all the great coffee that is nearby, it would be great. As it stands, I’d skip it.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
Exploring opens the Heart
This is a great spot to drop in for a coffee and food. The coffee is always spot on. Staff friendly. Its a good to when I am visiting my friends there.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kim Anderson
I can't speak for anything other then the quality of the espresso. I went with a group of 5 girlfriends. 4 of us got an iced coffee of various flavors/types. All 4 coffees were terrible. Bitter, sour and went straight into the trash. We unfortunately did not realize how terrible they were until we had already gotten in the car and were headed out of town and did not have time to go back and request they be remade. But for a coffee shop to get all 4 of 4 coffees ordered made poorly there needs to be some better training for the Barista staff.
Ashley Zimmerman
Lattes are huge and I would give them a 7/10 the sunrise breakfast burrito is YUM. Lost a star just for the wait
Good breakfast and coffee
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Americano was good but service for takeout was slow.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 4
Fantastic patio, delicious food, and helpful staff. Dog friendly patio is a great spot to enjoy a coffee and brunch.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Cool little spot
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Mid. Even before the TikTok BS of last summer, Alta was decent at best. Now they make one of the worst watered down, bitter iced lattes I’ve ever had. And consistently. Consistently terrible. The service is uninspiring. The patio is decent on a summer day, sure. The pastries and cookies are mid. Just a dump at this point. Btw, influencers, stay in LA and it’s just big train chai mix. Buy it on Amazon. Wish I had better words for Alta but this place doesn’t need to be there anymore. Also, their tortilla chips are a travesty.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
TLDR: vegetarian approved, coffee lover approved, remote worker approved (if you have a hotspot), street parking only
I came to Alta Coffee to do some remote work. I had just moved back to the area but I’d only ever been here once before maybe 10 years ago on the morning of one of my birthdays. I’m so glad I decided to check it out again and do some work here. I interacted with two workers who were so sweet. I got here a little after 1 pm so it was the woman who took my order as well as another blonde woman later on who ended up being the one to check on my table. She was incredibly sweet and made me feel welcome being there.
Food and drink:
I got the bueno bowl with veggie sausage and no avocado as well as an iced sugar free vanilla almond milk latte. I usually only drink soy and not always a fan of almond but I couldn’t even tell. The latte was absolutely fantastic! The bowl was soooo good. It’s the perfect size for one person. I couldn’t finish it as I just eat less than the average person but if I was hungrier, I would have easily finished it. I do fully appreciate serving breakfast all day! I’m also vegetarian so I love love love they offer multiple vegetarian options on top of having vegetarian sausage as a protein option for breakfast.
Atmosphere: I sat outside in the perfect spot where I could get a little sun but still see my laptop. Keep in mind, they do NOT have wifi so I couldn’t call it the ideal remote work coffee shop compared to it being more of a place to hang out and chill but I used my phone’s hotspot. Overall cell service was pretty fast so I had no problem using my hotspot. Also, it seems as if some great people frequent there. Everyone coming in seemed so friendly but it could have to do with it being 80° by the beach in January and clear skies.
Parking: It’s street parking only but during the weekday, it was super easy to pull up front and have a spot. I’m not sure about the weekends.
If it were busier, like a weekend day, I wouldn’t have hung around for 3 hours so I could free up a table. I’ll definitely be back to do work or even just grab a meal or coffee.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
If I lived here I would be here once per week, on a weekday morning, for the 2 egg breakfast, great music, and coffee of the day!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My usual order is their iced toffee latte. Great every time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Decided to try this place out for the first time. Ordered for pickup, Hot Candy Cane Mocha which was just a regular coffee, and a Turkey and Cranberry Wrap and got a Turkey BLT instead. $25 on a fail.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Went to Alta Coffee in hopes of it being a nice environment to get some work done on my laptop. Unfortunately it turned into having a sticky table, with no outlets/wifi, and two teenagers behind the counter talking so loudly about their drunken night out the night before. Then midway they turned the music up so loud I could hear it through my noise canceling headphones! I don’t usually leave reviews and didn’t want to sound like a “Karen” but it was a mids experience that I felt the need that other first customers like myself could get an insight of. Will have to try another local coffee shop next time.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 3
Restaurantji Recommends
Used to be a great coffee shop, now it’s mid. No ceramic mugs for coffee, can’t pour your own cream, and service is often unapologetically slow and disinterested. Back in the 90’s this place was coffeehouse perfection. If it only still did that, it would be great. If it updated itself to rival all the great coffee that is nearby, it would be great. As it stands, I’d skip it.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
This is a great spot to drop in for a coffee and food. The coffee is always spot on. Staff friendly. Its a good to when I am visiting my friends there.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I can't speak for anything other then the quality of the espresso. I went with a group of 5 girlfriends. 4 of us got an iced coffee of various flavors/types. All 4 coffees were terrible. Bitter, sour and went straight into the trash. We unfortunately did not realize how terrible they were until we had already gotten in the car and were headed out of town and did not have time to go back and request they be remade. But for a coffee shop to get all 4 of 4 coffees ordered made poorly there needs to be some better training for the Barista staff.
Lattes are huge and I would give them a 7/10 the sunrise breakfast burrito is YUM. Lost a star just for the wait
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Not worth the visit
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
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