Cafe Zella -- Santa Monica, CA

Café Zella is a small café located on busy Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. It has rapidly become the favorite meeting place of its neighbors who flock there in the morning for their caffeine fix, delicious breakfast sandwiches and a variety of pastries, muffins and breakfast burritos. It is a favorite for locals that pop in for quick, healthy lunches that offer fresh fruits, vegetables, amazing homemade soups or sumptuous salads and sandwiches.

The cafés regulars spend afternoon breaks on the cafe's outdoor patio enjoying luscious smoothies, yummy lattes and ice blended fruit drinks while their canine friends can soak up the sun and atmosphere. There's something special about Sunday mornings sipping your favorite coffee or espresso and noshing on the warm blueberry muffins, scones and soft, warm cinnamon rolls.

Coming into the café, there is a pleasantly nostalgic atmosphere that takes you back to the small town cafés of yesteryear. The smells of freshly baked bread and the aroma of sweet fruit and cleanliness titillate the senses. The friendly staff go out of their way to make the patron feel welcome.

Café Zella offers menu items that are nutritious and healthy, and mouthwatering delicious. Their turkey and Swiss with avocado is one of the cafés most popular sandwiches, as is their mouthwatering chicken salad with cranberries. If you're not in the mood for sandwiches or salads, there are hearty comfort soups to satisfy your palate. Turkey vegetable, luscious butternut squash and chicken tortilla are just a few that will warm your insides and evoke memories of mom's kitchen.


Café Zella has the best of both worlds, fresh, healthy foods with a small-town atmosphere while located in a large city. Their customers are not strangers, but friends that they welcome into their humble establishment again and again. When you walk into Café Zella, you become part of the family.