Café Ruisseau

With two locations Santa Monica and Playa Vista, Café Ruisseau prides itself on providing an individual, bespoke coffee experience in the face of “fast, impersonal, mass produced mediocrity.” Founded in 2005, the coffee shop offers non-dairy milk options at no additional cost and a slate of unique specialty drinks, including a butterfly pea blue latte and Ruisseau’s take on the chagachino, also known as a mushroom latte. The Playa Vista coffee stand features plenty of open-air and outdoor seating, while the larger Santa Monica outpost sports a more modern look with plenty of indoor tables.