{"id":451309,"date":"2026-09-02T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451309\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:28:09","slug":"dtla-can-rise-and-shine-with-this-new-multicultural-breakfast-spot-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451309\/","title":{"rendered":"DTLA can rise and shine with this new multicultural breakfast spot \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

After serving the flavors of Sicily for dinner in the Arts District, Italian-born chef Michele Galifi now wants you to rise and shine for a California-inspired multicultural breakfast with Lulu\u2019s Coffee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a modern coffee shop with some quick and really comforting breakfast items,\u201d said Galifi, whose new spot opened in mid-August and operates out of his still-running Bianca Sicilian Trattoria restaurant<\/a> during the morning hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always wanted to do breakfast and coffee here at Bianca, and I was not able to do it at the moment. So at first I found someone to do a coffee pop-up and that operated for four months, but now I\u2019m in a much better place, and I decided this was our perfect chance and opportunity to start Lulu\u2019s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Galifi, who was born and raised in Palermo, Sicily, opened Bianca, which is named after one of his young daughters, almost a year ago in downtown Los Angeles with the aim of creating modern versions of traditional dishes like house-made pastas, antipasto, steaks and seafood dishes.<\/p>\n

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Italian-born chef\u00a0Michele Galifi is offering an elevated breakfast with his latest spot Lulu\u2019s Coffee. (Photo courtesy Lulu\u2019s)\n<\/p>\n

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Italian-born chef\u00a0Michele Galifi is offering an elevated breakfast with his latest spot Lulu\u2019s Coffee. (Photo courtesy Lulu\u2019s)\n<\/p>\n

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Italian-born chef\u00a0Michele Galifi is offering an elevated breakfast with his latest spot Lulu\u2019s Coffee. (Photo courtesy Lulu\u2019s)\n<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s taking that same house-made approach at Lulu\u2019s, which is named after another daughter. But inspired by his Central American wife and multicultural family, he\u2019s not sticking to just traditional Italian fare this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe utilize the same principles as Bianca, which is everything is made from scratch. Everything we use for breakfast we make in-house. It\u2019s more like California and Los Angeles\u2019 most loved items,\u201d said Galifi. Those offerings include syrups, creams and other dishes using farmers market ingredients, as well as fresh baked bread.<\/p>\n

Among the unique drink options at the coffee shop is the Lulu, which is made with espresso, caramelized plantain, milk and a cream top. The plantain portion was inspired by his wife, whose family hails from El Salvador and Nicaragua, where plantains are heavily included in meals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really plantain-forward coffee, that\u2019s really delicious and sweet,\u201d Galifi said. \u201cMy wife is Central American, and she\u2019s always been into coffees and Latino flavors, so I tried as hard as I could to bring that Latino flavors to the coffees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other dishes are locally influenced, such as the Avo Toast with avocado cream, prosciutto and furikake and a smash burger topped with a fried egg, plus, of course, the quintessential Los Angeles breakfast burrito. It\u2019s made with hot sausage, which is mixed with bacon, country potatoes, eggs, and given a bit of Italian flair with mozzarella cheese.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, when I eat it, I know there are some Italian flavors because we do a sausage which does not, really recall a chorizo but it is a sausage. And then I use a thicker cut bacon that is more Italian flavor. It is the classic LA burrito with some Italian twists and flavors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lulu\u2019s Coffee at Bianca Sicilian Trattoria<\/p>\n

Where: 1200 E. 5th St.,\u00a0 Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Hours: 8:00 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m. daily<\/p>\n

Information: biancasiciliantrattoria.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After serving the flavors of Sicily for dinner in the Arts District, Italian-born chef Michele Galifi now wants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,1647,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,412,580,420],"class_list":["post-451309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-downtown-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-restaurants","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}