Groundwork Coffee Co.

Groundwork's Arts District cafe sits on Traction Avenue, a few blocks from the Sixth Street bridge, in a brick storefront that fits the neighborhood. The company has been roasting certified organic coffee in Los Angeles since 1990, one of the longest running organic programs in the city. The Traction room runs a full cafe menu alongside the coffee, with house baked pastries, salads, and sandwiches for the lunch crowd that pours out of the surrounding studios and lofts. Mornings draw Arts District residents, designers from the warehouses nearby, and visitors who walked down from Little Tokyo. The room hums by ten. Order a drip of the current organic single origin if you came to taste what thirty plus years of LA organic roasting looks like. Order a latte and a house pastry if you came for the Arts District version of a long lunch.