GG Coffee & Matcha

Matcha leads and the GG matcha latte is the order the room is built around: Rocky’s ceremonial grade whisked with vanilla syrup and fermented koji rice milk. The shop is small, minimalist and counter-service, sitting among the streetwear stores in the Fairfax and Melrose orbit, and it works best as a quick caffeine stop or a short booth linger when a seat is free.

Matcha first, coffee second

The menu starts with green tea and stays there longer than most coffee shops would. Beyond the house latte, the raspberry matcha tonic is fruity and sparkling with the matcha still holding the finish, horchata matcha takes the sweeter, spiced route, and a coconut-foam version rounds out the flavoured end of a ceremonial-grade lineup.

Coffee is present and treated well, with a signature cold brew sweetened with maple syrup and cinnamon as the drink to know. Food leans breakfast: a breakfast burrito with salsa on the side, a chorizo version with green sauce, a beef chorizo burrito, buttermilk pancakes, the rotating McGgridle pancake sandwich, and a sea salt chocolate chip cookie warmed from the case on request. The Infatuation included the shop in its 2026 matcha guide.

A small room for the pause

The rhythm is simple: order at the counter, take a seat if one is open, keep it easy. The room is tiny and best used between errands on a retail-heavy street, but it is more comfortable than its size suggests, with booths, music kept at a sensible volume and enough calm to get work done.

Staff are friendly and quick with a recommendation, which matters in a shop where half the menu is flavoured matcha and the differences are worth explaining. Students, solo visitors and anyone wanting twenty minutes off Fairfax all fit, provided the seats hold out.

Order the GG matcha latte first

Start with the GG matcha latte, the clearest signature and the cleanest way to understand the shop. The ceremonial grade base, the vanilla and the koji rice milk make it more specific than a standard iced green latte, and it sets the reference for everything else on the board.

From there, the raspberry matcha tonic brings fruit and sparkle without losing the matcha, while horchata matcha and the coconut-foam version show the sweeter, composed side. For a non-matcha order, take the maple-and-cinnamon cold brew. On food, match it to the visit: the sea salt chocolate chip cookie is the small pairing, warmed; the burritos and buttermilk pancakes make it a meal.