A Silver Lake staple for Cuban fare, especially breakfast food like pastries, egg sandwiches and coffee, Cafe Tropical on the corner of Sunset and Silver Lake boulevards, has been beloved by regulars ...

Annalise Gehling, left, and Quincie Bean eat at Café Tropical in Silver Lake in 2020. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Café Tropical, which has been a staple in the Silver Lake community and served ...

SILVER LAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A neighborhood staple closed for good in Silver Lake. Café Tropical shut down its operations after nearly 50 years of business serving up Cuban coffee and pastries.

For nearly 50 years, Café Tropical has served as a gathering place for morning cafecitos, afternoon lunch meetings and endless writing sessions in Silver Lake. For many, it also provided a taste of ...

Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee. Over the last month, a new cafe has been testing its menu on ...

Perched on the corner of a bustling Sunset Boulevard intersection in Silver Lake, Cafe Tropical’s purple building hums peacefully. Its striped green awnings match the minty banquettes and walls inside ...

Neighborhood residents snapped pictures of their guava cheese pastelitos and greeted old friends inside Café Tropical in Silver Lake on Thursday. It was a sweet reunion for the cafe’s patrons who have ...

West Hollywood’s Bravo Toast is on the expansion path, landing a new location in sunny Silver Lake. Owners and LA natives Jack Della Femina and Nathan Katz will take over the former Breadblok space at ...