Cafe De Olla Restaurant

Cafe de Olla Restaurant is a smart spot for homestyle Mexican fare served in compact, contemporary digs with exposed-brick walls. Its enticing menu features handmade authentic Mexican dishes like chilaquiles, sopes, and chorreada, plus crowd-pleasing American ones such as burgers, salads and pancakes.

The menu is a good balance of traditional and innovative dishes with a focus on fresh, local ingredients. It’s got a lot of great breakfast options, including Huevos Divorciados, Nopalitos con Huevo and breakfast burritos as well as four varieties of chilaquiles. They also offer a few breakfast sandwiches and about a dozen permutations of French toast.

Their cafe de olla is almost as good as what you’d get from your mama or abuelita. Their version tingles with warming spices. It’s brewed with coffee, cinnamon and piloncillo (raw cane sugar), and served in glazed earth-colored mugs.

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This dime-sized Mexican breakfast eatery in Lincoln Heights is a favorite among locals for their delicious huevos rancheros, nopales rancheros and other brunch staples with their signature, cinnamon-infused cafe de olla. Their menu is also full of other Mexican and American breakfast dishes, like machaca, eggs, huevos divorciados and breakfast burritos.

They also serve pan dulce, which is basically a sweet cinnamon bread. It’s a treat that they make to order and a popular choice with their regulars, so be sure to try it.

There are other places in Los Angeles where you can find great cafe de olla too. Some of the best brews in town come from El Cafe by Primera Taza, a small artisan coffee stand inside an art studio in Boyle Heights, and Holy Grounds Coffee and Tea, which bills itself as “neighborhood coffee shop and sanctuary for creativity, productivity and relaxation” in El Sereno.

Another place that brews this traditional Mexican drink is La Monarca Bakery, which has locations in all major neighborhoods of Los Angeles. They brew their coffee with Oaxacan dark-roast beans, and it tastes all kinds of delicious, especially when paired with a savory, flaky pan dulce.

Some of their other popular coffee drinks include latte, macchiato and iced coffee, all made with roasted and infused with Oaxacan beans. You can even pick up their own bags of coffee.

The cafe de olla at Cafecafe isn’t as rich and syrupy as the scrumptious one you’d get from your grandma, but it is still very tasty. This is a cult favorite for good reason, and the iced variety is a must-order.

The restaurant is owned by sisters Diana Espana and Carolina Osuana, who partnered to open the place. They’re a family who loves to cook and design, and they hope to bring their unique style of cooking to Burbank with their new spot.