Incredible coffee and the friendliest owner. Easily the best coffee I had in LA…still thinking about it!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Mark Graham
Best coffee we found in the entire US (that we visited) on either coast, including Boston, Brooklyn and NYC. Worth the visit for the coffee, stay for the bonus beats.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jacob Kellis
Great place! The owner was very engaging and clearly passionate about his craft!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Alicia Tvedt
This coffee shop became the star of our trip. We stopped here on our way down to Newport with my kids and parents. The coffee and hot chocolate were so good, my kids and parents are begging to drive up from our Newport rental just to stop here again. The barista really cared about his craft, which is not something we see a lot of where we are from. This random stop for coffee was such a highlight for my family and we will definitely go out of our way to come here again next year.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Anna Andre
I came for mocha here because of many reviews. Wow. Delicious. Impressed!
Phillip Tang
One of the best coffee experiences I had in LA!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Alexandra Harris
Two of the best cups of coffee I’ve ever had in my life! The Cafe Rico was out of this world and the drip coffee was unreal. Special shoutout to Nicely for his hospitality, passion, and expertise. Cannot recommend enough, I will be back☕️
layla maree
The dude who made our coffees was rude to my partner for no reason. But, the coffee was good. The other gentleman who was on shift was very nice and brought us water while we sat down and enjoyed our coffee and the scenery but, when we went up to ask about something, the other dude was rude about it and made us feel dumb for no reason.
Atmosphere: 3
Service: 2
Aurora Vintilescu
Very inefficient service (only one very slow person both taking orders and doing drinks - while other employees were keeping themselves busy in the kitchen behind the cafe). Especially on a Sunday morning? Really hard to justify ever coming back, though I thought their matcha was above average.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Artem Lebedev
TASTY CUP, cool personal, loved the atmosphere and music. Thanks, looking forward to be back, I am definitely hooked.
Great coffee, great service, cool spot. Cafe Rico was fantastic!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ian Schoen
Great coffee! They really know what they’re doing and put precision into every drink.
Max
I’ve been coming here for far too long, but I’m done. Nicely makes some of the best coffee in LA, but good luck actually enjoying it. Because his pretentious, joyless attitude poisons the entire experience. The man treats basic customer interaction like it’s beneath him. No smile. No thank you. Always snarky comments. Just this constant sense that you’re inconveniencing him by existing.
If dealing with customers is that intolerable, here’s a thought: hire someone who doesn’t resent human beings (apart from your select favorites in line who get comped drinks?) and stay in the back making coffee. Instead, he forces everyone to tiptoe around his moods, like we’re unwilling extras in some bleak social experiment for how poorly he can treat customers that he’s writing about for his Substack.
Examples? Plenty. Someone from our group took a short video to support the shop and he literally wagged his finger and said, “no videos,” only to repost other people’s exact same videos the very next day. And when we order four coffees — one per person, mind you — he huffs, “well, that’s a big order…” with a face that screams we’re doing HIM a favor by buying his own product.
He’s weirdly anti-dog too, despite having zero signage about it (and being in probably the most dog friendly area in LA), and somehow still thinks it’s appropriate to ask for “donations for a family trip.” The vibe is all wrong. Coffee culture should be about community and warmth... not power trips and passive-aggressive rules.
The tragic part is the coffee is phenomenal. But until someone else runs the front, it’s not worth the misery. Luckily, Gabe who used to work here opened Flo in Venice. Same stellar coffee. None of the attitude.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
M.F Thielbar
The most beautiful cortado I’ve even seen or tasted.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
C. Tanner Malone
Worst barista. Best coffee. Gabe was the best part of hooked and kept us going. Nicely is so rude to everyone in line that he doesn’t know. He has made some of the most insane comments to people just because they want to know more about his coffee. I get it, you’re an expert, but Nicley makes coffee unapproachable and unenjoyable. Someone in line asked for a drink he recently removed from the menu because it was her favorite (I’ve seen her there many times, and the menue just changed) and his response was “well if you can’t even pronounce the drinks name, you never should of been ordering it in the first place”. He comes at everyone with that attitude. My favorite part of it all is he acts better then everyone and then has been pushing the fact that he was just on chamberlain coffee teaching Emma about espresso. So he is a hipster sell out when he gets paid enough, but his customers don’t pay him enough to get any respect. I hope that Gabe has all the successes at Flo coffee. But Nicley has ruined Hooked for me and many more. It is a shame. It was the best coffee I ever had.
Incredible coffee and the friendliest owner. Easily the best coffee I had in LA…still thinking about it!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best coffee we found in the entire US (that we visited) on either coast, including Boston, Brooklyn and NYC. Worth the visit for the coffee, stay for the bonus beats.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great place! The owner was very engaging and clearly passionate about his craft!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This coffee shop became the star of our trip. We stopped here on our way down to Newport with my kids and parents. The coffee and hot chocolate were so good, my kids and parents are begging to drive up from our Newport rental just to stop here again. The barista really cared about his craft, which is not something we see a lot of where we are from. This random stop for coffee was such a highlight for my family and we will definitely go out of our way to come here again next year.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I came for mocha here because of many reviews. Wow. Delicious. Impressed!
One of the best coffee experiences I had in LA!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Two of the best cups of coffee I’ve ever had in my life! The Cafe Rico was out of this world and the drip coffee was unreal. Special shoutout to Nicely for his hospitality, passion, and expertise. Cannot recommend enough, I will be back☕️
The dude who made our coffees was rude to my partner for no reason. But, the coffee was good. The other gentleman who was on shift was very nice and brought us water while we sat down and enjoyed our coffee and the scenery but, when we went up to ask about something, the other dude was rude about it and made us feel dumb for no reason.
Atmosphere: 3
Service: 2
Very inefficient service (only one very slow person both taking orders and doing drinks - while other employees were keeping themselves busy in the kitchen behind the cafe). Especially on a Sunday morning? Really hard to justify ever coming back, though I thought their matcha was above average.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
TASTY CUP, cool personal, loved the atmosphere and music. Thanks, looking forward to be back, I am definitely hooked.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Great coffee, great service, cool spot. Cafe Rico was fantastic!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great coffee! They really know what they’re doing and put precision into every drink.
I’ve been coming here for far too long, but I’m done. Nicely makes some of the best coffee in LA, but good luck actually enjoying it. Because his pretentious, joyless attitude poisons the entire experience. The man treats basic customer interaction like it’s beneath him. No smile. No thank you. Always snarky comments. Just this constant sense that you’re inconveniencing him by existing.
If dealing with customers is that intolerable, here’s a thought: hire someone who doesn’t resent human beings (apart from your select favorites in line who get comped drinks?) and stay in the back making coffee. Instead, he forces everyone to tiptoe around his moods, like we’re unwilling extras in some bleak social experiment for how poorly he can treat customers that he’s writing about for his Substack.
Examples? Plenty. Someone from our group took a short video to support the shop and he literally wagged his finger and said, “no videos,” only to repost other people’s exact same videos the very next day. And when we order four coffees — one per person, mind you — he huffs, “well, that’s a big order…” with a face that screams we’re doing HIM a favor by buying his own product.
He’s weirdly anti-dog too, despite having zero signage about it (and being in probably the most dog friendly area in LA), and somehow still thinks it’s appropriate to ask for “donations for a family trip.” The vibe is all wrong. Coffee culture should be about community and warmth... not power trips and passive-aggressive rules.
The tragic part is the coffee is phenomenal. But until someone else runs the front, it’s not worth the misery. Luckily, Gabe who used to work here opened Flo in Venice. Same stellar coffee. None of the attitude.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
The most beautiful cortado I’ve even seen or tasted.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Worst barista. Best coffee.
Gabe was the best part of hooked and kept us going. Nicely is so rude to everyone in line that he doesn’t know. He has made some of the most insane comments to people just because they want to know more about his coffee. I get it, you’re an expert, but Nicley makes coffee unapproachable and unenjoyable. Someone in line asked for a drink he recently removed from the menu because it was her favorite (I’ve seen her there many times, and the menue just changed) and his response was “well if you can’t even pronounce the drinks name, you never should of been ordering it in the first place”. He comes at everyone with that attitude. My favorite part of it all is he acts better then everyone and then has been pushing the fact that he was just on chamberlain coffee teaching Emma about espresso. So he is a hipster sell out when he gets paid enough, but his customers don’t pay him enough to get any respect.
I hope that Gabe has all the successes at Flo coffee. But Nicley has ruined Hooked for me and many more. It is a shame. It was the best coffee I ever had.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
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