Gum Tree Shop & Café — Restaurant in Hermosa Beach

Edit: I received a phone call from the owner regarding this issue and we resolved it. I very much appreciate the follow up and will now feel comfortable returning.

I purchased two sets of earrings on 12/19. One of the sets was the “small spike huggie hoop earrings 18 kg vermeil”. They cost $68 dollars and I put them on immediately. As I do with all hoop earrings I wear I took them off every night and back on in the mornings. By the third day of wearing them one had fallen off and gotten lost and by the fifth day the other had. I’m extremely disappointed in the quality of the clasp on these earrings, even cheaper pairs of hoops I have owned didn’t come loose as quickly as these. I came in in person to see if anything could be done and the associates took my phone number to pass along to the owner or manager. I told them that it would be enough for me if he/she is simply alerted to the quality control issue. Unfortunately I never received a call or email regarding this and so I am posting this review. It is unlikely I will purchase from this...

Beautiful beachside cafe and retail shop located on Pier Ave in a historic building.. they have a beautiful patio and also a small dining room inside. Enter left for cafe, right for retail store.. excellent baked goods, sandwiches, salads, and plenty of great beverage selections. The egg white breakfast burrito was veggies rather than the typical breakfast meats and it was great. The chicken breast sandwich on the buckwheat bread was toasted to perfection and super tasty. The atmosphere is very charming beachside historic and reminds you of the age of Hermosa Beach.. original flooring and trim have been preserved from one of the oldest original buildings in town. The service was friendly and efficient with honest recommendations and everyone came out fast and perfecto even though they were nice and busy on a Saturday. Gum Tree is a great place to sit and relax, have a nice meal or a snack, shop for cool and unique housewares, gifts and beach related treasures. Located on the south side of Pier Ave between Monterey...

A really outstanding pairing of home/gift/design shop with a small-but-mighty café and coffee shop. It’s enough to make me want to move to Hermosa Beach and live close enough to Gum Tree that it could be my go to coffee shop and the place I buy all my gifts for friends, loved ones [and myself let’s be real]. If I had something like this on the Hollywood side of town, I’d spend most of my income at it!!

In terms of the café: I had the iced lavender latte and it was divine. Too much and those can taste more like soap than like a delicious coffee. Theirs is phenomenal.

In terms of the shop: from the kids section to the cooking section to the jewelry and the clothes - this is one of the better curated boutiques anywhere in greater LA or the South Bay. And I thought the prices were largely really reasonable. Some pricier things, as is fair, and lots of options to hit other...