As always, the unique touches elevate the café from plain good to really memorable. The biggest points from me come from how they've got an Audrey Hepburn chair! Even the food serves a decorative purpose. All the colors of the macarons in the display case somehow complement each other. The inside of the café is adorned with glass, and has a general color scheme of ivory and dark-colored wooden tones. Imprinted on the mirrors within the café is the Caffé Concerto logo in a holographic reflective material.
I notice that Japanese and Korean cafés tend to lean towards either cute or elegant, but elegant cafés will always have a touch of cute, and vice versa. The elegant ones usually have sort of a European theme with an Asian influence. Caffé Concerto is definitely on the side of elegance (with a trendy side, all the desserts are so colorful), but cute touches can be seen in small bits of decor like the stuffed animal ornamental tree on the counter.
We went here once just to pick up a latte in the morning before heading over to explore the Getty Center for the first time. It was so nice inside that we promised ourselves we'd later come back for dessert exploring after dinner.
For after dinner desserts, I got a jasmine macaron and ispahan, which is a macaron filled with fruit jam and cream. It was entirely average, nothing lives up to Ladurée's version. Hannah chose a moscato sabayon, basically various berries in a glass with a cream mixture of vanilla bean, egg yolk, sugar, and wine. Hers was really good!
We had two more green tea lattes.. meaning I had three green tea lattes in this day, from two different cafés, and they all kinda tasted the same. Apparently they're much more plentiful and everywhere than sweet potato lattes are. The process of mixing matcha powder into steamed milk must be kinda standard everywhere.
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Caffé Concerto
610 S Serrano Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90005
(213) 738-0909
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