Retro Israeli Coffee Shop Chain Opens With All-Day Mediterranean Food in Century City

Stylish, retro-designed Café Landwer, a coffee brand that originated in Berlin in 1919, has opened a location inside Century City’s Westfield Mall as of yesterday. Moshe Landwer originally started the brand after opening a shop in Berlin, then moving the family to Tel Aviv in 1933 during the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. Eventually, Landwer created Israel’s first-ever coffee brewing company, opening a factory in 1964 to supply the increasing demand. In 2004, co-founder Nir Caspi and two others co-founders approached the company to acquire the name and establish a coffee shop that would eventually expand throughout Israel. In 2018, the company began opening locations in North America, beginning in the Boston area and then Toronto.

This Los Angeles outlet is the first on the West Coast for Café Landwer, and the place has an extensive brunch and dinner menu with mostly Mediterranean influences. Think shakshuka, falafel, avocado toast, and chicken shawarma for brunch, and salads, veal schnitzel, hummus bowls, and beef kebabs for dinner — all at fairly reasonably everyday prices. The all-day restaurant has coffees (naturally), cocktails, and desserts as well to power busy mall shoppers and Century City denizens. Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

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