Woodcat Coffee — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Love this place, super friendly people, I just came over here after the barista at Eightfold was so rude to me. Not super rude, just an underlying attitude of she's bothered to even take my drink order. Idk what it had me fuming so bad but it did. Cus it doesn't make sense to not just throw in a TINY EENTSY TEENY bit of extra effort of kindness and smiling attitude so I couldn't help but to vent to the coffee people here and they were laughing and vibed me...at least listened and heard what I had to say about how I can't stand people w/bad attitudes. Coffee is coffee I feel like that...what makes a place different literally is ONLY the customer service and how people treat each other. I've been coming to this place and others in Silverlake for a super long time and always loved the positive loving KIND to EVERYONE...not just to pretty girls...energy. The fact that he listened to me rant on a bit about the other place while laughing makes me love this place forever. Such a breathe of fresh air and keeps my hopes that LA does have good people in it. God...

Woodcat is, what I would call a utilitarian coffee house. Bare basics, concrete floor, steel sheet wrapped table tops, and woodish walls. Unfortunately on this day with a less than enthusiastic barista.

I wasn't greeted when I walked in, stood there for a minute, then found a table in the back and returned with my cup. I presented my own cup as i usually do (a camouflaged basic plastic Starbucks cup) and was charged $4+ tax, for one cup of coffee. For which, especially after tasting the coffee, was less than thrilled.

For the record, had i left my cup at home, and been presented with a new paper cup lid and sleeve, Woodcat coffee is $3 and $4 per cup, I requested a cup of medium roast, and was told that "all of our coffee was medium roast". The coffee I had was an unusually chocolaty/sweet black coffee.

I'd probably give 3.5 stars, but...

I visited Woodcat a couple of times and had good coffee on both occasions. However, I probably prefer its sister coffee shop Dinosaur Coffee further up Sunset Boulevard for its more open and brighter space.

But it's not the dark-tone, cramped space that bothers me the most, it's the lack of enthusiasm, excitement, and exuberance—the energy I got when I first saw their colorful bean bags at another coffee shop—that dissuaded me from visiting more often. The baristas are friendly but seem tired; the drink menu displays no creativity; even the yellow light from a small table lamp makes me feel sleepy and cancels out the caffeination I am there for.

Anyway, I'm probably biased. Echo Park is full of chic, sunny, modern coffee shops, it for sure can use a neighborhood-y, no-frills...