Psychic Standup with Karen Rontowski at 7;30PM in our Up Close Room

Before

0.2 mi · 3 min walk - Hermosa Beach

A 1929 beach cottage halfway up Pier Avenue holds this coffee house, with a porch, mismatched tables and a case of sandwiches and cakes made in the back. It opens at six in the morning, earlier than anything else on the street. People bring laptops and nobody moves them along.

After

0.2 mi · 4 min walk - Hermosa Beach

Paul Hennessey opened this on the corner of Pier and Hermosa in 1976 and it is still the anchor of that corner. Dark wood, a long bar, booths, and a kitchen that runs the whole time the bar does. It opens at eight in the morning and closes at two on weekend nights, which is a wider window than anything else on the block.