Owning a coffee company is hard. Just ask Emma Chamberlain. Named one of the 25 most influential people on the internet, the content creator with over 12 million followers on YouTube, is also the owner of Chamberlain Coffee, a mail-order coffee brand that trades more in vibes and name recognition than anything else, and one she has admitted to regretting. Last year, in an over three-hour podcast interview—on a different YouTube channel—Chamberlain opined about how difficult it was to run a coffee company.
Still, that regret hasn’t appeared to slow the brand’s momentum any, as Chamberlain Coffee has broken out of the online-only presence and into the physical space with its first brick-and-mortar cafe.
As reported by Eater LA, Chamberlain Coffee opened its new location on January 30th inside the Westfield Century City Mall in Los Angeles’s Century City neighborhood. The full-service cafe features industry standard equipment, including a white La Marzocco GB5 espresso machine, a Mazzer Major espresso grinder, and a Mahlkönig EK43 grinder.
The menu includes espresso-based drinks like lattes, cappuccinos, and cortados along with drip coffee, cold brew, and matcha drinks. You can also order a coffee Emma’s Way, which is an espresso with almond milk AND non-dairy creamer. It’s a little hat on a hat, if one hat had a slightly higher fat content than the other.
Per Eater, Chamberlain Coffee will also serve “pastries like a chocolate croissant, miso kouign amann, matcha cake, olive oil cake, and banana sesame bread” and will sell retail bags of coffee, canned drinks, and brand merch.
For more information, visit the Chamberlain Coffee Instagram page.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
