Friends & Family is a seasonal cafe and marketplace featuring fresh baked goods in East Hollywood, CA run by Pastry Chef/Baker Roxana Jullapat and Chef Daniel Mattern. Longtime champions of produce-driven cooking, Jullapat and Mattern built their careers over fifteen years in renowned kitchens of Los Angeles. At Friends & Family, they continue their dedication to hand made food with artisan breads and pastries made daily with locally-sourced, heirloom grains, as well as a produce forward day-time menu.
Seasonal café & bakery specializing in thoughtfully sourced produce & artisanal bread.
Allan de Leon
According to one of the LA sites this place has the best croissant (Sonora wheat) in the city. I enjoy the pistachio one myself. Part bakery, part restaurant, part take away – Friends and Family is a good place to relax and people watch.
Parking is strictly street and meter. Pastries are great. The steak hash is fantastic. It’s a pricier establishment, but quality does match the price. One of the cool things is this place offers large drip coffees. Those extra ounces are greatly welcomed.
… moreNat awee
Always visiting this spot with my run club friends but never gave them a review which is long overdue. I always come for their quiche and croissants, which is always 10/10 satisfaction post run
This is my first time ordering their plate meal and decided to go for their scrambled eggs mushroom and spinach, the egg tho is so good! It’s not like the traditional diner kinda clumpy scrambled eggs, it’s more smoother and easier to spread on the toast that came along with the meal. Super delicious! Would need to come back again for this dish! Highly recommend!
… morePiotrek
Good tasting breakfast burrito here. But if I’m still hungry after a $17+ burrito, then it’s not really a good value. It’s small
… moreMichael Muna
The croissants were really good and likely taste even better fresh out of the oven. The Halva croissant was unique and very good. The cold brew was good as well, not too too strong and the staff were even mindful not to fill it up all the way as they knew I’d take mine black without cream and sugar. Just a nice attention to detail from the staff that I appreciated.
… moreAbrar Jahin
Ordered Macro bowl salad, they served almost rotten salad and rice. I ordered the salad in the morning too, it was probably refrigerated for couple days, it smelled bad but I was so hungry in the morning I tried to eat it either way since I have already paid 20 bucks for it. Couldn’t eat half of it,it was that bad, pictures doesn’t do justice, the avocados were literally turned black rotting.The only thing was good was boiled egg and that’s it. However I didn’t try their bakery items so I don’t have any idea how is that. But wouldn’t recommend anyone for any salad items.
… moreAornchuma Junthanop
Heard so much about pastry from this place so I was expecting to see various types of pastry here. Unfortunately, not much of pastry in the store. I really wanted to try pistachio croissant and they didn’t have it so I ended up getting raspberry fairy instead. It was good but not that great. Came here for pastry but I was impressed by their pork breakfast burrito. One of the best breakfast burritos I’ve had in my life! No hot sauce needed just well seasoned pork, cheese, and eggs. Pork was juicy and tender while salsa gave you a refreshing taste in one bite. Very tasty and fulfilling. My cappuccino was decent. Surprisingly, I enjoyed savory food more than their pastry here.
… moreTiffany C
I discovered this place originally through uber eats, but it was so good that I had to see what they were doing in person! My original order via delivery was an avocado toast, olive oil fried eggs and an iced coffee. In person, I reordered the olive fried egg which includes olive bread and they knocked it out the park again—absolutely delicious! I also tried their cold brew this time and like that much better than their iced coffee. The restaurant has a cute hipster aesthetic with a small shoppable area selling nice elevated flour to purchase for those who bake!
… moreMat Lit
The whole wheat is excellent. Was worried it was using whole wheat flour, but was amazed at the contrast between the ultra crisp flakes on the outside, and the more toothsome fluffy inside. It’s not the same as a typical croissant, but a fine one indeed. Blue corn scone was nice and not too sweet.
… moreYü Wu
Out of all the LA bakeries that have wholesale accounts, Friends & Family is easily my favorite. Their croissants are so crunchy and hold a terrific form that immediately catch my eyes from those pastry boxes.
Friends & Family has a wide selection of pastries. Besides the normal croissant variations, there are also pistachio almond croissant, sweet and savory danishes, cakes, muffins and cookies. You can also get fresh baguettes and bread loaves.
The cafe has plenty of seats, and a full day time menu. I went there for lunch with a friend and had the beef short rib hash (two eggs, braised beef, yukon potato & pickled chili salsa verde) and wow it was palatable and got amazing value for basically the price of a toast in those fancy, over hyped coffee shops.
That’s what I really like about Friends & Family: it’s pretty much a hidden gem, a down-to-earth neighborhood bakery cafe, although I think it’s worth being recognized by a lot more people.
… moreIvy Valdez
Best BLT I’ve had in LA so far 🙂 not dry at all & very flavorful but still maintains bold BLT flavor components! And salad is yummy, fresh & light. Also enjoyed the mimosa!
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