Stumptown Coffee opens in downtown Los Angeles

Third-wave coffee pioneer Stumptown Coffee opened its doors downtown early Tuesday morning, serving espressos and cappuccinos to a handful of downtowners and cafferati in the retail space inside the new roastery.

The glass-fronted bowstring-trussed warehouse in the Arts District is located along the same Santa Fe Avenue stretch as Bread Lounge and Bestia, a food-destination pocket just south of Church & State, the new Urban Radish market and Handsome Coffee Roasters.

Stumptown’s 7,000-square-foot space also includes a 60-kilo Probat coffee roaster fully visible to the public from behind a glass wall in the cafe -- and a training lab.

The focal point of the cafe is its custom La Marzocco Strada MP, its paneling emblazoned with the Stumptown logo and inscribed with “City of Angels.�

Along with its menu of epresso and coffee drinks and housed in a pastry case built into the coffee bar by Portland, Ore., woodworkers are viennoiserie, morning pastries and cookies -- including kimchi Spam musubi croissants and miso butterscotch cookies -- from Sugarbloom Bakery.

The is the Portland company’s first California roasting works and cafe.

Open daily 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

806 S. Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles, www.stumptowncoffee.com.

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