{"id":61281,"date":"2025-11-20T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61281\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:47:08","slug":"cafe-2001-review-pristine-lemon-tarts-and-katsu-sandwiches-delight-at-this-all-day-arts-district-hang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61281\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe 2001 Review: Pristine Lemon Tarts and Katsu Sandwiches Delight at This All-Day Arts District Hang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Arts District all-day hang <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/924960\/cafe-2001\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe 2001<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/dining-out\/922969\/new-restaurants-third-places-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">refuses to be defined as just one thing<\/a>. The cafe serves a menu from former Yess sous chef Giles Clark that straddles European and Japanese inclinations in a bi-level former bank space that looks like it could have <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2025\/2\/14\/24365719\/cafe-2001-arts-district-giles-clark-yess-daytime-restaurant-los-angeles-opening\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosted underground raves or a mad scientist<\/a>. During the day, guests sip coffee, matcha, or wine from a slim selection of bottles while classical music echoes against the brick walls. The menu, with a katsu sandwich, fat-specked terrine, and shortbread crust tarts, looks decidedly different than the usual cafe line-up but it works. Whether you seek a full meal, a mid-day sweet, or just somewhere to show off your outfit, Cafe 2001 is the place to be right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">An Arts District take on Doctor Frankenstein\u2019s lab complete with brick walls and a high-fidelity sound system. If Frankenstein\u2019s creature came to life here, he would probably emerge with a penchant for matcha, pet nat, and Japanese fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Cafe 2001 can be difficult to find; look for the spray-painted plank of wood and a set of doors whose paint is peeling to know you\u2019re going the right way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arts District all-day hang Cafe 2001 refuses to be defined as just one thing. The cafe serves a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-61281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61281","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=61281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}