R Cafe

los angeles has more specialty coffee than most cities know what to do with, and the san fernando valley gets less credit than it deserves for its share of it. r cafe on reseda boulevard in northridge is quietly holding its own in that conversation. the valley isn't a detour from good coffee, and if you've been treating it like one, this is a reasonable place to reconsider that. locally well regarded and operating out of a unit b address that doesn't announce itself loudly, it rewards the people who actually look. northridge isn't a neighborhood that draws coffee tourists, which means the crowd here tends to be genuinely local. start with the espresso.