The Blue Rose

Last time we got ham and cheese croissants, first they were like «no we don’t have any» and they are sitting right there in the glass case. Next they were hard… too hard… third not warmed up at all nor asked if I wanted them warm, fourth, said they would deliver them to me at doomies?!? Fifth, doomies didn’t have a microwave, so I suppose that is how they ended up hard in the oven, 6^th after asking to warm up 2 with my doomies order, none were warm… i hear them finally offering to warm them back at their place in the microwave. Doomies insisted it would just be a couple of minutes in the oven. .and of course i had no choice. .so i got very hard croissants. :p
Im looking for a different place. Spent $ 70 there to wait 45 minutes for crap food and service to go.

All I want is for Blue Rose to get a location in Echo Park. I can’t even dock a star for their strip mall location: the food is that good. The croissants are indistinguishable from non-​vegan croissants. The cookies are just the right level of sweet. The rose panna cotta is an unexpected floral dream. Even the coffee is excellent. Located next to Doomie’s Home Cookin for your vegan comfort food lunch/​dinner fix, the employees here are friendly and rather delightful. The chef is a French culinary artiste who really takes his craft seriously.
Sending my well-​wishers here for my birthday cake!

I am only rating this fine bakery four stars, because ironically, sometimes they run out of a good amount of their baked goods. I come in here about once a week and my to go treat is their «Gluten Free Chocolate Cake». Do not let its name fool, Vegan and Gluten Free, how can it be tasty? It is though! It is the most scrumptious dessert in there and Doomie’s (the affiliated, owning restaurant) combined.’ To describe, it is mouthful after mouthful of chocolate mouse and a chocolate coating which makes for; PERFECTION! Get it!
I have tried some other baked goods too. The Oreo Cake is a tad too sweet and not always the freshest. The brownie is quite decadent, but not as mouth watering as the bigger version next door at Doomie’s. As for coffee, I would recommend ordering only if you are in dire need of a caffeinated beverage alongside your dessert (I have had much better quality coffee, granted I am a coffee snob).
But for any Vegans, folks with Celiac ailments, or just dessert lovers like myself, Blue Rose is worth checking out. And that Chocolate Cake; get it!

Very creative desserts and a savory «turkey» pastry. I wasnt «wow’d» since my croissant was oily and the protein was shoved in there in a lopp-​sided fashion. HOWEVER, the staff was awesome and super dooper friendly!

Things have not gotten better here and I find this place to be off-​putting. I found out through eavesdropping that the owners have a vegan consultant on board. This guy told a woman who made a web series that featured this place that unlike Doomies this place isn’t doing great.
Big news there. And I can tell you exactly why this place isn’t doing great without the need for a paid consultant! For one, they have menu items that aren’t consistently available. If they don’t have a cold brew, like today for example, take it off the chalkboard! The vegan valley girl working at the counter was like yeah no we’re like brewing that right now and we won’t have it until tomorrow, while there was a half-​finished cold brew next to her that was apparently hers. Great thanks for reminding that I don’t have a time machine.
Also, every interaction I’ve had with the baristas here has been mildly annoying. I feel awful for sounding rude but I feel like I’m dealing with not the sharpest tools in the shed here. Maybe it’s in part that their staff is working in a café that is usually out of things or trying to pass off a lot of their stuff that is stale, so they seem foolish when they are out of stuff or when it has to be remade when they get caught. I honestly hope that’s what I am sensing. That brings me to my last point: they serve stale stuff.
For example, a few months before this last time I was here, I asked for coffee. It was 4pm and the coffee that was sitting out all day due to the lack of customers was cold. Instead of making a new brew, the barista took the cold coffee, put it in a cup and steamed it. I have been in pretty sketchy coffee shops and never have I seen anyone ever do that before. I saw her do this and it tasted like hot stale coffee. I confronted her about it. She was quick to say sorry and made me an americano.
I’ve been vegan for 15 years and would rather go to a non-​vegan coffee shop than support a vegan coffee shop that is committed to vegan things that 1. is inconsistent, 2. serves stale food/​drink and 3. is poorly managed and run. It’s embarrassing as a vegan that this place represents the only vegan coffee shop/​bakery of its kind in the area. They also play crappy Top 40 music. It’s as dead as when I first visited here a year ago and it should have no reason to be. But since it is, and they are tarnishing the reputation of their amazing sibling Doomies, please close down or hand the baton over to someone who has the time and willpower to turn this place around.

Run by the same people that run Doomie’s — don’t pay their staff well, for starters. The first time I ever went inside, I saw produce orders waiting on the tables and an almost entirely empty bakery display. The floors and coffee equipment were dusty and neglected. Nobody tried to help me, so I left.
Also, I gotta say, leaving produce or even receiving it in the dining room is EXTREMELY against health code. If one of my coworkers did that at our restaurant, they’d be fired.

The food here was delicious and the service is super fast I loved my California burrito and the chocolate chip pancakes where great I really recommend this café!

I love that all-​vegan cafés exist! Grindcorehouse is my favorite, followed closely by sweets & treats and timeless. However, this one falls last on my list unfortunately.
The baked treats are amazing! How often do you get to order a vegan croissant? Like never. So good!
The latte wasn’t really very good. They were out of almond milk.
It took sooooo long! Granted, there were 6 of us, but 2 of the girls I was with went next store to get manicures and were done by the time out drinks were ready.
The girl who worked there was really nice.
I would still go back for the desserts. They were delicious and really pretty too.

I love this place. Don’t let the fact that the owner is also the owner of doomies. The food and baked goods are amazing and the awesome young girl who works in the morning is always so friendly always with a warm greeting and knowledgable advice. While she is working I will keep coming back. Croissants are amazing

Walked in here on a Saturday morning. We were and still are the only people in here. All we wanted was juice. The girl at the register said they were out of kale. Okay, that’s fine. My friend and I ordered juice… Simple. Apple carrot. Mind you, there are no prices– so we were shocked to find out that or juices were a whopping $ 8.00 each!!! Obscene. We could buy a pound of carrots and apples for under that price. Okay. Moving on. Girl at the register then goes to their adjacent store to bring carrots into this restaurant. THIRTY minutes later, we are still waiting for our juice, and we are still the onlycustomers here. How long can juicing possibly take. FIRST AND LAST TIME COMING HERE. THIS WAS A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE WAITING 30 MINUTES FOR EXPENSIVE JUICE.

All their desserts are vegan! They have both almond and soy milk which is awesome. The best this is the sweets! My friend tried the brownie and I got the oreo cake, both were amazing!

This is a vegan restaurant coffee house sitting in a fairly run down shopping Center across the street from the Pickford Academy center. wonderful staff… lots of gluetin free and dairy free foods all wonderfully prepared. each of the items I tasted there were delightful from their vegan chicken sandwiches, pastries and such this is definitely the spot to go if you’re hosting a vegan or vegetarian and need something quick for breakfast or lunch

They were only closed by the health department for a couple of days due to a late permit renewal. No problems with the food or any inspection. They repainted during the down time.

My new regular breakfast stop before work!!!
Everyone here is delightful and the food is THE BOMB. I’ve had a bunch of the croissants, namely the ham and cheese, turkey ‘n’ thyme, and chocolate – all delish (AND VEGAN WHOO); I’ve also had the apricot shortbread, the rose panna cotta, the cream cheese danish, the pear tart, and even the pesto chicken panini!
I even decided to be a little adventurous and try their rosemary lavender shortbread (good, although I’m not a big rosemary fan – but it went very well with tea!) because literally everything I’ve tried hasn’t let me down!
This is seriously a vegan’s dream come true ~~!!! Come eat good things and make new friends!

Chicken Pesto Panini and Americano with Soy Milk for the win!
ALL VEGAN. Panini, sandwich, croissants, muffins etc.
Definitely worth checking out!

Pretty disappointed. Visited with high hopes since OMG a vegan coffee shop with wifi near my hotel! Alas– the latte was watery and not creamy, the chicken salad was ridiculously salty, and the veggies on my salad were just blah. I’m talking mealy tomatoes, wilted lettuce, and cucumbers with soft spots. The chocolate croissant was also meh. The chocolate didn’t go through the whole thing and was cold and hard.
I also didn’t appreciate that the drink size defaults to the large.
The three stars are for the amazing person working the counter and for the atmosphere. The person wasevery knowledgable and so damn friendly. Everyone who came in got a, «hello! How are you?» and my questions were answered adequately.
Ultimately, I Wouldn’t go back and wouldn’t recommend it to o others.

I really want to like you guys. You’re the closest café to my house and I love your vibe and food. The staff is lovely but it’s always so empty there. I have to say its a bit over priced. Maybe it’s at la standards but just wanted to let you know I didn’t think a croissant and ice tea would be 6.50. I don’t want you guys to close! Some ambient music would be nice. It’s dead silent! I like the quiet vibe but when it’s just me and the barista it feels a bit awkward with no music.
Also, love the corner with the easy accessible power outlets. Really tells me you want me to hang out and get some work done which is great. Would be nice of some outlets were also on the table tops. The counter tops can get uncomfortable. I know of you were busy it would be annoying to have laptop workers on the good tables for too long but seeing that you’re empty so often, maybe making it more comfortable for laptop people would be a good way to be more inviting.

My family dentist’s office is up on the second floor of this plaza and I so happen to have just finished an appointment. I was feeling a little hungry and thought this place would do.
There were no customers but the place looked cool, they were playing sneaker pimps and that was a plus! The walls and tables are dark, the décor was simple and was not loud. The display case looked neat and gave this sense of potential to be an awesome place.
The turning point of my experience was that, the barista or woman that worked the counter seemed really lost when I asked her questions about their green tea latte. I was a barista myself, so I knew how the process went with either options. So, I ordered the green tea latte and the woman was even more lost on making it. She could not find a spoon to scoop out the powder, she used sink water (which is fine by me) however, she did not measure it. She was free styling it when making my drink but not in the sense that she knew what she was doing. It was a tad annoying but i went along with it. The drink was exactly how I thought it would taste. It had matcha chunks and it had too much water.
I am not against exploring the rest of the menu… I will just have to wait until my next dentist appointment. Hopefully, my next visit will be much better and I can update this review.

Chef Doomie Does it Again!
Amazing coffee?
Check.
Face-​meltingly amazing pateries that happen to be animal-​free?
Check!
And awesome lunch/​brunch menu?
Check, Check!
Check out this brand new coffee house, and see what LA has been missing (until now!)

A great little bakery right has opened up next door to my favorite vegan place! Plenty of dairy-​free and gluten-​free options for the celiac and/​or vegan in your life. It’s got an adorable, cozy interior that makes it great to lounge in for an hour while writing your next Oscar-​winning screenplay… but please don’t ruin the atmosphere with your pretension. The guy behind the counter (who I’m assuming is the owner) is a sweetheart, and will guide your indecisive self towards some personalized options based on your mood.
The desserts are not only somewhat healthy (and fit your picky lifestyle), but they’re all reasonably priced. Everything I saw was $ 4 or under, and they even have day-​old pastries on sale for $ 1! I got my fussy boyfriend a blueberry muffin ($ 1 sale price) and he loved it. I just COULD NOT resist getting a bunch of stuff. I only spent $ 12 and I got FOUR DESSERTS and a coffee. WHOA. The Jew in me jumped for joy.
The chocolate cake ($ 4) was moist, rich, and absolutely delicious – we shared it and it was plenty for the two of us. I also purchased a brownie ($ 2 – perfect balance of fudge-​y and cake-​y goodness, nice thin layer of fudge on top), and an apricot cookie ($ 2 – gave it to my friend, who was VERY EXCITED). Besides cakes, they also offer a good selection of cookies, muffins, cakes, brownies, some danish, assorted tarts, and a daily dessert that seems to go pretty fast. They’re going to be offering sandwiches pretty soon as well. Great vibes in this café. I hope they stick around!
The only issue that needs to be worked on (and is a quick fix!): we sat there for about an hour, and the entire time, there was a table that needed to get cleared. Otherwise, nom nom nom.