Cafe Maji

It's been over 5 years since I've been here and it's still amazing! Today I tried the banana latte, chicken pesto panini, and the owner gave me cream puffs for free! Everything is really tasty and the service is beyond amazing! If you're in need of a place to study (there's a good amount of room with lots of outlets) then best come here! P.S. they play really calming studio ghibli music that's been helping me do my homework lol.

This is a strange place, they have mismatched furniture everywhere but that may be the style they are going for but it doesn't work if the furniture is worn and uncomfortable to sit in. The service is you walk up to the counter to order and you pick up your order and clean it up. The strangest thing was that many of the items in the menu were not actually available, so you need to constantly pivot. The drinks themselves were not memorable at all. I would not recommend and would not go back.

In America, I feel like we miss out on cafe culture in Asia, and I'm glad I have this place where I can romanticize what it would be like to go there. The drinks menu is extensive but exciting because they offer a wide variety of coffees and specialty drinks that you would not find in a regular coffee shop. My matcha even had latte art (despite being over ice and with a soy milk substitute) and it had sweet floral notes, unlike commercial matcha. And the standard size is medium-large, good for satiation over long study sessions. It embodies a cafe in the sense that it caters to a variety of people and encourages productive behavior! I.e. affordable drinks, good and substantial food options (including Korean food!), different chairs and seating arrangements, peaceful music, multiple outlets, and a charging station--perfect for students and remote workers. Admittedly, this is a front in an old shopping plaza facing a main street so the facility itself has some out-of-date issues. Despite this, you can notice the touch of the owner and how they've catered such a large space for their customers for you to enjoy your drink and study. There is eclectic taste in decor, use of natural light, and clear signage to help you navigate the space. Notably, cafes are usually small spaces so which results in cramped seating, loud conversation exchanges, and buzzing machinery paired with overly complicated coffee and pastries. This place is none of the sort. It's spacious with an ample amount of outlets so you are not likely to come into contact with other people using outlets or finding seating. Its almost like a hybrid between a study cafe and a restaurant which is ideal for those who want to come here to get work done uninterrupted.

I came here around 10PM to celebrate a friend's birthday and it was pretty much packed inside! I love how there are different sections of the cafe for different needs: games/social, and a section of individual tables for studying. The place itself is cute and has nice warm lighting. I like that this is an option for a cozy late night hang. That being said, it looked like there was only one person working the entire cafe. He seemed stressed with taking care of everything single-handedly but he got all our orders right and was kind. The Oreo cheesecake was good and big enough to split among 6 people. The drinks were okay, a little watery and syrupy. Overall, good hang spot especially late at night when most places are closed!

I come here sometimes for some late night book readings/hangouts with my friends & i love it!!The atmosphere is very calm and easy to work in. I always see the same guy working by himself and even then he does a great job at getting orders out in a timely manner. Not to mention he makes the cutest foam faces in the lattes!!!The food here is pretty good. I prefer the drinks over the food for sure but overall, a great place to get some work done (especially if you're looking for a cafe open later in the night!)

I usually don't like to post bad reviews but do better! I came to Cafe Maji when it first opened and was in town and wanted to bring my daughter to experience the cute atmosphere I remembered. How the quality in all aspects have gone down. Fold out tables and chairs are not cute. The layers of dirt and grime around the store are not cute. Serving frozen cream puffs from Costco is not cute. The service is whatever. Considering how long this store has been open, I have to imagine it's done well, do better for your customers. I pride myself in telling people you can't find a mediocre restaurant in LA because the people won't let it. This is an extremely mediocre cafe.

Just stopped by and it's closed during posted business hours. There were several people that stopped by and left. No notice on door about it either.

I am going to have to un-bookmark this cafe! Not sure if the cafe was sold to a new owner or it's just old reviews that I read. The food menu was limited and had nothing we were excited to try (ie bulgogi quesadilla and maji burger). The food was all disappointing! We ordered mango habanero quesadilla, pesto chicken panini, and ttekbokki with cheese (extra $2) and nothing tasted good. We literally heard the microwave ding and immediately our ttekbokki came out. How can you justify $16 for microwaved food?? The drinks were as disappointing. We left not finishing our food and drinks and didn't bother taking them home. A whopping $60.99 for our unsatisfactory meal was a no bueno. I think everyone that comes here just appreciates a large and bright study spot. It felt cold and uninviting. The space provided lots of outlets for computers and there's WiFi. The tables are missed matched between wooden and plastic tables and chairs. Eye sores!Service was run by one man. He takes orders, makes the drinks, and brings them to the table to you. I'm assuming there's someone back there in the kitchen warming up the food/snacks. I haven't been this disappointed in awhile with a cafe especially having driven 40 minutes to try this place. We won't be back.

This place will always be my favorite little cozy spot. The owner plays lofi music so you can always either come here to relax or to study. I would highly recommend the chicken dumplings and the strawberry lemonade

Never wanted to give a one-star review of a place more than what's left of Cafe Maji. Mid to late 2010s this place was a vibrant study spot for students to come and do their homework/study for exams and not have to worry about how early they close. Now, the only thing that even resembles how nice Cafe Maji was are the various wooden chairs that used to exemplify their quirky design, rather than highlighting how tacky everything is. The tables are plentiful, but you can say the same thing in a hospital cafeteria. On either sides of the walls there are vertical rows of PLASTIC FOLD-UP TABLES and foldable chairs used for outdoor picnics and blood drives. Every table is staring directly into the next table, so if you're bored with what you have going on in your computer you can peek over someone's shoulder right in front of you and see who they're texting/what they're doing. Awful, awful ambience. The price. Whoever is pricing their drinks needs to take 50 steps across the street and order 2 drinks and 2 desserts from 7Leaves, since that was CHEAPER THAN TWO DRINKS. Getting a Thai Tea and a Mocha Latte, both mediums, rounded up to 18 DOLLARS. We paid 15 at the 7Leaves across the street and we even got food. Absolutely ludicrous and delirious of the owner of Cafe Maji that they price their drinks at 8.25 for a MEDIUM. Were the drinks worth the price? My iced thai tea came warm at the bottom, with the ice melting completely by the time I swirled everything around. And even then it was watered down and lukewarm. The Latte just tasted like pure syrup. Not worth 8.25. Not even worth 5 dollars. The menu is one of the most abysmally designed menus I've ever seen from a boutique coffee shop. Dozens of different flavors all packed in laminated printer paper, with barely any space to differentiate between everything. I felt overwhelmed looking at the menu since most of the flavors felt like they were overlapping each other, and typing it in single spaced makes ordering such a hassle. I had to bring the menu up to the counter to remember what I ordered since there were just too many options bunched up too close together. Shame on the menu designer. Did you fire the person who designed your other menu or did you not pay them enough for them to come back and update it?Overall, horrible experience and something that made me frustrated and sad at once was a nice coffee shop to work in. It is a shadow of its former self and either needs divine intervention or the owner going to business school. And their WiFi didn't work. Go to 7Leaves.