Go Get Em Tiger

Business & Pleasure is the drink to order first: green tea and citrus as a palate cleanser, an espresso shot, then homemade almond-and-macadamia milk with raw sugar and a second shot blended together. It is the clearest statement of what this Larchmont counter is for.

The Larchmont original

The Larchmont storefront is the original Go Get Em Tiger, opened in 2013 by Kyle Glanville and Charles Babinski after their work at G&B Coffee. Both are longtime coffee professionals and former barista competitors, and the shop was built to put serious coffee in a comfortable room rather than an austere one.

The coffee programme is multi-roaster, with beans from Kuna Coffee, 49th Parallel, Methodical Coffee, Ruby Coffee Roasters and Heart Coffee, and the range runs from cappuccino to drip. Tea appears most specifically inside Business & Pleasure, through the Chinese green tea that opens the sequence.

A neighbourhood room on Larchmont Boulevard

Larchmont Boulevard has an almost small-town rhythm inside Los Angeles, and the café works with it. This is a destination espresso bar and a neighbourhood stop at once, designed to feel easy while holding a specialty standard.

Inside, the room is bright and warm: plenty of wood, old industrial elements, small touches of colour, a slightly nostalgic feel. Across the brand the language is the same, with neutral colours, natural finishes and personable service. Ordering is bar-style, direct from the barista rather than through a register queue, which is the clearest expression of the founders’ idea that good coffee should not feel stiff.

Order Business & Pleasure, then keep it simple

Start with Business & Pleasure if you want the drink most tied to the café’s personality: Chinese green tea with citrus, espresso, and house-made nut milk with raw sugar, served as a sequence rather than a single cup. It captures both the coffee side and the way service is staged here.

For something more direct, cappuccino and drip coffee are the everyday orders, and the multi-roaster shelf gives the bar room to feature Heart Coffee, Ruby Coffee Roasters, Methodical Coffee, 49th Parallel or Kuna Coffee depending on the week. Food is supporting rather than central: a decent choice of sweet and savoury snacks to sit beside the drink. The strongest reason to come is still the lineage behind the counter, the G&B Coffee connection, and the shop’s long-held place in Los Angeles coffee.