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# CAFE UPPER, Los Angeles: a coffee shop in Los Angeles (2026 guide)

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By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 10 sources. Updated 2026-09-01. Owner review: not yet.

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## In short

CAFE UPPER is a coffee shop in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 23 of 100, which is poor.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Coffee shop |
| Address | 300 S Hobart Blvd #101, Los Angeles, CA 90020, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 10:30 AM to 12 AM · Fri to Sat 10:30 AM to 2 AM · Sun 10:30 AM to 12 AM |
| Phone | (213) 277-1473 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.2 across 200 reviews on Google |
| Known for | CAFE UPPER is best known for its inventive coffee drinks like the black sesame einspanner and unique matcha offerings, alongside delicious pastries like the creme brulee donut. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 19, 2026, 11:11 AM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 300 S Hobart Blvd #101, Los Angeles, CA 90020, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 300 S Hobart Blvd #101, Los Angeles, CA 90020 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM · Fri to Sat 10:30 AM to 2:00 AM · Sun 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | CAFE UPPER | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (213) 277-1473 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 10:30 AM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:30 AM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Services | Service | 3kf2r7adozcbp3cetl4ujjuo | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | 7wonzlfdxh4boz5ptjd7ci5y | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Coffee | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Gcvn5r5r7jx2zwiar7na2tfs | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Gvysveklhgv2njdj6rofcyk7 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Ltvhlpaorvrt7ficded34fjg | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Qk655bmzl6wlnc55teutpqcq | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Umaqysfvouf2e7sq5b4ms2tf | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Wc6ynpkka6aw3auparap3i2d | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Links | Website | http://cafeupper.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 8 services CAFE UPPER offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 3kf2r7adozcbp3cetl4ujjuo |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Ltvhlpaorvrt7ficded34fjg |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Qk655bmzl6wlnc55teutpqcq |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Gcvn5r5r7jx2zwiar7na2tfs |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Umaqysfvouf2e7sq5b4ms2tf |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Wc6ynpkka6aw3auparap3i2d |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| 7wonzlfdxh4boz5ptjd7ci5y |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Gvysveklhgv2njdj6rofcyk7 |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

CAFE UPPER is best known for its inventive coffee drinks like the black sesame einspanner and unique matcha offerings, alongside delicious pastries like the creme brulee donut.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting CAFE UPPER

Address: 300 S Hobart Blvd #101, Los Angeles, CA 90020, USA. Phone: (213) 277-1473. Hours: Mon to Thu 10:30 AM to 12 AM · Fri to Sat 10:30 AM to 2 AM · Sun 10:30 AM to 12 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 11:17 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by CAFE UPPER on its Google Business Profile: "300 S Hobart Blvd #101, Los Angeles, CA 90020"


### When to go

Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yerim Korean BBQ | Korean barbecue restaurant | 1 min walk |
| 3rd St & Hobart Blvd | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| 3rd St. & Hobart Blvd. | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Joopocha Gastropub | Korean restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Ten-BBQ | Korean barbecue restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Pizza Go | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.2 average across 200 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.)

While CAFE UPPER offers unique late-night drink options, inconsistent service and drink quality have led to a decline in customer satisfaction. (AI guess, from 200 reviews.)


### What people like

- Spanish latte made with whole milk
- Black sesame latte
- Bingsoo with fresh mangos
- Matcha einspanner


### What people do not like

- Staff unwelcoming and aggressive
- Inconsistent drink quality
- Overpriced drinks for poor quality
- Long waits for service


### Press

No press story about CAFE UPPER found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from CAFE UPPER

CAFE UPPER hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### prices round here, anyone got a number

No answer yet


### Somewhere to park near CAFE UPPER?

No answer yet


### Why do people rate CAFE UPPER?

No answer yet


### do I need to fill anything in beforehand

No answer yet


### services here, what do people go in for?

No answer yet


### is Los Angeles expensive for this, or is it just here

No answer yet


### does this place ever have cancellations

No answer yet


### points or member pricing at CAFE UPPER, worth signing up?

No answer yet


### walk in at CAFE UPPER in Los Angeles, or is it appointment only?

No answer yet


### where does this place post updates

No answer yet


### torn between CAFE UPPER and The L.A?

No answer yet


### opening hours here, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### best cafe in Los Angeles

No answer yet


### Worth the hype at CAFE UPPER?

No answer yet


### anything people actually moan about here?

No answer yet


### trying to avoid the rush, which day is quiet

No answer yet


### Coffee near CAFE UPPER on Hobart?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about CAFE UPPER

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about CAFE UPPER. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 20, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 23 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Los Angeles coffee shops run 23 to 41. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. CAFE UPPER scores 23, below the Los Angeles average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | CAFE UPPER |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 20 answers that recommended anyone. 7 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 14 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 50 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a coffee shop

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a coffee shop in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
- Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.
- Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including CAFE UPPER if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to CAFE UPPER |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CAFE UPPER | LocalBusiness | #business | http://cafeupper.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Los Angeles, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City CAFE UPPER is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the coffee shops in Los Angeles, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best coffee shops in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles/coffee-shop
- Best businesses in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles


### Nearby

- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno
- /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own CAFE UPPER. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJn_Y0ImC5woARO6Xnd3p6tmo (accessed Aug 31, 2026)
- [2] cafeupper.com, https://www.cafeupper.com/product/cup-of-milk/WC6YNPKKA6AW3AUPARAP3I2D (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] cafeupper.com, https://www.cafeupper.com/product/double-cha-einspanner/7WONZLFDXH4BOZ5PTJD7CI5Y (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] cafeupper.com, https://www.cafeupper.com/product/lady-finger/3KF2R7ADOZCBP3CETL4UJJUO (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] cafeupper.com, https://www.cafeupper.com/product/dubai-chewy-cookie/GCVN5R5R7JX2ZWIAR7NA2TFS (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] cafeupper.com, https://www.cafeupper.com/product/hojicha-latte/GVYSVEKLHGV2NJDJ6ROFCYK7 (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [7] cafeupper.com, https://www.cafeupper.com/product/brown-sugar-oat-milk-shaken-latte-i-only-/LTVHLPAORVRT7FICDED34FJG (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [8] cafeupper.com, https://www.cafeupper.com/product/hojicha-einspanner-i-only-/QK655BMZL6WLNC55TEUTPQCQ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [9] cafeupper.com, https://www.cafeupper.com/product/banana-matcha-latte-i-only-/UMAQYSFVOUF2E7SQ5B4MS2TF (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [10] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 20, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)