You can skip Tilt Coffee Bar in Downtown Los Angeles’s sprawling madness. Unless, of course, we know what you’re looking for. In fact, so prolonged as we conduct down a artless walkway, and check behind a high unit building, and are following a signage, it’s flattering tough not to find Tilt. Because, well, of a tilt.
“We wish a emporium to be complicated and timeless,” co-owner Kyuho Choi says. “When we found this singular space, we now knew that this place would be ideal to offer good coffee. There aren’t many spaces in Downtown LA that have this park-like setting.”
Kyuho Choi pulls a shot of espresso during Tilt.
Choi—a three-time aspirant during a World Latte Art Championship— founded Tilt with his business partner Suk Hong during a finish of final year. Hong, who acts as Tilt’s designer, naturally has an architectural background. Choi, with his 6 years of knowledge on bar, is a lead barista.
Tilt exclusively serves coffee from Portland’s Heart Coffee Roasters, pulling shots of espresso with a Synesso MVP Hydra 2-Group and harsh with a Nuova Simonelli Mythos One Clima-Pro. They also offer season options around FETCO and Kalita products—all belligerent with a Mahlkönig EK 43.
The specialty menu during Tilt is desirous by Choi and Hong’s trips to South Korea, whose witty coffee enlightenment is apparent in drinks like a Cloud Mocha—wherein layers of espresso, steamed milk, chocolate, and cold cream prerogative large gulps with palate-pleasing heat variability. And the Ice Cloud Latte—layers of espresso, milk, maple syrup, and cold cream that are churned as one sips with a straw.
Tilt’s Cloud Mocha [above] and Ice Cloud Latte [below]
“We have selected a beans and teas formed on a personal experiences,” Choi says. “We’ve had good personal practice with Heart Roasters and we wish a business to have a same experience. We motionless to go with Heart since of their consistency.”
Non-coffee drinkers during Tilt can extract in teas from Red Blossom Tea Company formed in San Francisco, or obstacle a baked break pleasantness of Bread Lounge.
While it’s still a really immature cafe, large things are already designed for Tilt’s surrounding green space, that will eventually play horde to a village area for film screenings and other pop-up events. In a meantime, though, Tilt will sojourn a place to take in a California fever and relax.
“We are still a baby in a coffee attention during this point,” Choi says. “We wish to concentration on a coffee for now—to yield good coffee and accommodate a expectations on a customers’ ambience buds.”
Tatiana Ernst (@TatianaErnst) is a Sprudge staff author formed in Los Angeles. Read some-more Tatiana Ernst on Sprudge.
