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Creative Spaces + Places in Los Angeles

A collectively-maintained database to share creative spaces and places where artists gather or work around the world, tagged with Wi-Fi (free/paid/no), alcohol (wine/beer/B.Y.O.B./no) and coffee (yes/no) offerings.

Updated 2 days ago by members of FWDlabs.com and readers like you.


35 venues in Los Angeles Neighborhood / Map Caffeine / Booze / Wireless

Alcove Cafe & Bakery

Los Feliz
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: Both
  • Wi-Fi: No

Aroma Coffee & Tea

Studio City
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: None

Beechwood

Venice
  • Coffee: No
  • Alcohol: Both
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Bodega Wine Bar

Pasadena
  • Coffee: No
  • Alcohol: Wine
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Bourgeois Pig

Hollywood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: None

Buzz Coffee

Hollywood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Cacao Coffee House

Brentwood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: No

Cafe Balcony

Santa Monica

  • "You might miss this tiny storefront tucked into a nook just off Santa Monica Boulevard if you're not among the initiated--or if you come too early, as the shop doesn't open until noon. This is intentional, says owner Ray Sato, who likes the slower pace of the night crowd, among whom, he says, are students, architects, the inevitable screenwriters with laptops, also 'a lot of acupuncturists.'" Los Angeles Times
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

The Cat & Fiddle Pub

Hollywood
  • Coffee: No
  • Alcohol: Yes
  • Wi-Fi: No

City College Cafe

Wilshire Center
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

The Coffee Table

Silver Lake
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: Yes
  • Wi-Fi: No

Coral Tree Cafe

Brentwood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: Wine
  • Wi-Fi: Free

The Downbeat Cafe

Echo Park
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

The Edison

Downtown
  • Coffee: No
  • Alcohol: Both
  • Wi-Fi: None

Father's Office

Santa Monica
  • Coffee: No
  • Alcohol: Yes
  • Wi-Fi: No

Groundwork Coffee Co.

Hollywood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Paid

Insomnia Cafe

Mid-City West

  • "One of the best-known screenwriter coffee shops in town ... Insomnia's popularity can easily be explained. It has the right proportion of comfortable seating to electrical outlets to coffee cup capacity." New York Times, May 16, 2004
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: No

Intelligentsia Coffee

Silver Lake
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: None

It's A Grind

Hollywood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: No

Literati Cafe

Brentwood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: No

Lost Souls Cafe

Central City
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

The Mandrake

Culver City

  • "'Free Money,' a free weekly event at the Mandrake Bar in Culver City, manages to unite disparate Angeleno tribes — galleristas, fashion victims, starving artists and the skinny jeans set — by throwing casually outlandish theme parties. And earlier this month, the KCRW-sponsored fifth anniversary party for arts collective Create:Fixate, a bimonthly multimedia event, featured a cross-section of emerging lowbrow and fine artists, electronic musicians and purveyors of bohemian clothing and accessories, not to mention a troupe of dancing Santas." — Los Angeles Times, December 21, 2006
  • Coffee: No
  • Alcohol: Yes
  • Wi-Fi: No

The Novel Cafe

Santa Monica
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Paid

The Office

Santa Monica

  • "For $5 an hour or $25 a day or $469 a month, you can rent a workstation with an Aeron chair, DSL and all the lattes you can drink. The owner, Aleks Horvat, a screenwriter himself, brought in a feng shui master to bestow positive karma." New York Times, May 16, 2004
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Paid

Palomino Restaurant Rotisseria Bar

Westwood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: Both
  • Wi-Fi: None

Peet's Coffee & Tea

Brentwood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Pig'n Whistle Pub

Hollywood
  • Coffee: No
  • Alcohol: Both
  • Wi-Fi: No

Psychobabble

Los Feliz
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Sabor y Cultura

Hollywood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Stir Crazy

West Hollywood

  • "Steven Steckel is such a regular that his double espresso is waiting for him when he arrives every afternoon. Breaking protocol, he has befriended other writers and can give you a rundown on everyone's projects. His reasons are selfish, he said: 'I get a lot of help from them. It's a good collaborative place. We trust each other enough not to steal ideas.'" New York Times, May 16, 2004
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Swork Coffee

Eagle Rock
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Tangier

Los Feliz

  • Available for private parties with 7ft. screen and video projector.
  • Coffee: No
  • Alcohol: Both
  • Wi-Fi: No

The Tribal Cafe

Silver Lake
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Free

Un Urban Coffee House

Santa Monica
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Yes

Urth Caffe

West Hollywood
  • Coffee: Yes
  • Alcohol: No
  • Wi-Fi: Near

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