La Escala Cafe

🔮Halloween Menu🔮

Ok Witches! It’s here! Our Halloween menu is here! Are you ready???

Notice our fun trend?!?!

In honor of the 2nd release of our beloved Hocus Pocus, we’ve decided to release some very special drinks!!!!

That’s right! Winifred, Mary, and Sarah are serving up some delicious treats for ya! And we’re dying to have you try them!!!

Which one will you come out and try this month???

Come try this menu THIS Saturday & NEXT Saturday at the Hilda Solis Learning Academy in East LA from 10am-4pm!

See you soon!!!🧙🏼‍♀️🔮✨

✨Come Find Us✨

I hope ya’ll didn’t think we forgot about you! We’re back this weekend at & next weekend

Heads up! is back to daytime hours: 10am-4pm! So come early and enjoy all the beautiful vendors while sippin on some cafecito from our brand new menu!!!

We can’t wait to see you all soon✨💜🔮🎃

✨Support Your Local Caffeine Dealer✨

Breaking into this business has been one of the most exciting and rewarding things I’ve done. So I wanted to take some time out to acknowledge some pretty incredible individuals who are out here doing their thing.

The coffee community is not a competition. We really are just a group of awesome people, sharing what we love in the world, with all of you. We all have something different to offer, a little pizazz, a special touch. What we all can agree on, is that we all hold a very special place for quality coffee.

So today, I want to acknowledge some of the great individuals I see and know, our here killin it. Give them a like/follow and don’t forget to support your local caffeine dealer!✨
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✨Latina Owned & Operated✨
La Escala Café is proud to be Latina Owned & Operated!

To all my Latina Goddesses out there, this one is for you💋 I see you kickin ass and being the best you in your business! Keep killing it, beautiful🔥

Con Mucho Amor💋
-Gia✨

✨La Escala Café✨

“The Layover”
:a culturally artistic mobile coffee cart experience.
-La Escala Café

✨La Escala Café Coffee Cart✨

Have you visited our coffee cart yet??Stop by tomorrow for a special dose of culture!

Pumpkin flavors are out too! So you don’t want to miss out🎃

If you’re planning to book a special event, come try us out so you can book us at your next event!

We’re now booking for all events through 2023!!! DM or use our link in bio to inquire our rates✨

🎃Pumpkin Time Is Here!!!🎃

And we have an all new fall menu to bring you that we cannot wait for you to enjoy!!!

Our 2 New Menu Additions:
🎃Pumpkin Spiced Spanish Latte
🎃 Pumpkin Cream Vietnamese Iced Coffee

*Pumpkin Cream will be available as an addition to any drink of your choosing!

Both & regular milk options:)

We’ve been hard at work trying to bring you a great menu and we’re so excited for ya’ll to come out and try them! Don’t miss us this month &

Swipe to see our monthly location schedule!

✨Coffee Wanderlust✨

: a strong desire to travel through a cup of coffee.

- La Escala Café


This is MY personal addiction. Coffee & traveling are literally everything to me. It’s why I decided to combine the two to establish La Escala Café 🛩☕️

Anyone else feel the same about coffee & travel?

✨Culture In A Cup✨

:to cultivate and celebrate the essence of culture and travel using styles, flavors, and practices found around the world, one cup at a time.

- La Escala Café

Did you know that Culture In A Cup is our motto? La Escala Café was founded on the need to celebrate and cultivate all cultures through coffee.

Coffee is a universal joy in life, but how it is harvested, roasted, brewed, and served is the most exciting art.

I feel like I don’t stress our motto enough, but my goal will always be to bring you drinks that make you transport to a different culture through each sip you take✨

✨Coffee Break✨

Here’s your friendly reminder that it’s time for a coffee break. We’re halfway through the day and I’m on my 2nd cup. How many are you in so far?

✨Dirty AF✨

When people walk up to me and ask how dirty I can make their drink, I deliver🔥

To my amazing customers who are willing to indulge in some of my wildest creations, I LOVE YA’ll!!!!!

You want a Dirty Ube Latte with Matcha Cold foam? Hell ya I got u!

Who got to try one this weekend at and who’s making their next menu selection dirtyAF?!😈

✨Event Ready✨

Here we go again! Back at serving up some new additions to our menu!

Come out and enjoy the vibes that the has to offer! We can’t wait to see & meet you!!!

✨The Q***r Mercado✨
We’re back at We’ll have our Freddo Spresso on bar all day, along with our newest yummy additions to our menu! So if you haven’t had a chance to try us yet, NOW is the time! You’ve waited a whole month and we can’t wait to see all our amazing regulars and our soon to be regulars!

Swipe to find us on the map! Hint: We’ll be across from the stage with our brand new tan canopy and fringe umbrella🌿

📍319 N Humphreys Ave
East LA
⏰ 10am-4pm

See you mañana amores💋

✨Did You Miss Us???✨

We’re back!!! And with some new additions to our menu, we can’t wait to give your taste buds some extra love &

We can’t wait to see you this Saturday from 5pm-9pm

And next Saturday, 8/20 at

You’ll definitely want to stop by and try the newest menu additions!!!

See you soon amores💋

✨Mañana✨

Come find us tomorrow from 10am-4pm
📍319 N Humphreys Ave
East LA

It will be the last time for a few of your favorites, you don’t want to miss out💋

A new menu is coming next month✨

✨Event Calendar✨

Hi Loves!
We’re excited to announce that in addition to we are officially the permanent coffee vendors for too now🎉🎉🎉

We will still be taking it slow this month, and will ONLY be found with our Mercado family’s. Thank you so much for your continued support and we can’t wait to see you all next month!

-Gia💋

✨Come Find Us✨

We are so excited to announce that we will have a new home every Monday, Wednesday, Friday through the end of this month! We will be the coffee presence for our dear friends’ art gallery!!!

So come find us, enjoy some cafecito throughout the week, and indulge in some badass body positivity art!!!

Where: 1500 S Los Angeles St
Los Angeles, CA

When: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
through the end of June

Time: 10am-3pm

We can’t wait to see you!!!!!!

Options for curbside pick-up/online ordering will also be made available💋

✨Father’s Day✨

This man right here, you might have met him a few times:) He’s probably stopped by many of your booths, gotten to know you and your product, and probably bought you a drink from me, or better, literally brought you to my booth😂

To my business, he’s my walking PR guy, my taster/biggest critic of my drinks next to my mom, my transportation, my troubleshooting lifesaver, and the face in front of and behind La Escala! He’s not my pop, but he is a Pop. He is my uncle AND Godfather, and quite literally the glue to what keeps my small business operating. I’d be surprised if you haven’t met him or thought he was the face of La Escala because he’s probably talked your ear off at many of my events😂🤣

Outside of the business he is my cheese and wine tasting buddy, the dude I go to when I’m about to travel the world again and ask him where the must sees are, my drinking buddy at all family parties, and the man I got all my sarcasm from. He’s a Dad, Godfather, Brother, and Coach. But above all, he’s pretty damn loyal and full of heart.

I’m super grateful to have him and his support so with that, Happy Father’s Day Nino☕️🍻

🎉✨Happy Birthday to Me✨🎉

I’m celebrating my bday all day with you!
Sliding into my mid-30’s with Arthritis, AND my own business. Who says it can’t be done?! 🤣😂 Even a viejita like myself is on it💪🏽

Just kidding guys, I’m not THAT old! I wish I was kidding about the arthritis😅😂

Anywho, thank you all for making this birthday of mine THAT much more special by allowing me to serve up my dream in a cup for you, it is truly an incredible feeling💋💋💋

Love ya’ll!
-Gia💋

✨Come Find Us✨

Just ADDED!!!

I know it’s a little last minute, butttttttt we had such a great time with ya’ll last month that we’re back at it again baby!!!🔥💗🎉

Come out and indulge in your favorite cafecito with a menu to keep you hydrated and caffeinated the whole day through💜💛💚

📍Hilda L Solis Learning Academy
319 N Humphrey’s Ave
East Los Angeles
⏰: 10am-4pm

Come stop by and say hi💋💋💋

✨Upcoming News✨

Hey all! I hope you were all able to get through yesterday’s dreary morning ok.

I have exciting news coming up this week🙌🏽 I can’t wait to share it🎉

Also, more events have been added to our calendar last minute because I’m apparently addicted to what I do😅

Keep an eye out👁💗💋

✨Cafecito y Compras✨

Last minute addition my loves! boutique has invited us to come out and serve up your favorite cafecito while you shop your hearts out!

I’m excited to serve up our summer menu to help you beat the heat✨

So come out and support small🎉

✨De Colores✨

I didn’t realize that I had just about all colors or the rainbow on last night menu, so I had to take a minute to share it all with you!

How many of you guys got to try Nefertiti’s Secret & Mahal-Kita last yesterday??

These 2 were fan favorites, and I’m obsessed with them💜💗

Colors play such a big part in so many different cultures, that I love to incorporate them into my drinks! And no, I don’t put food coloring in them, nor do I ever plan to. Ube is purple, and Hibiscus tea mixed with milk turns pink💕

What’s your favorite color???

✨Menu Magic✨

You guys asked, and I delivered!!!
So excited for this menu! We’re keeping your 3 favorites:
Churros con Choco-Latte
Mazagrán & Mahal-Kita on the menu tomorrow, and bringing you some refreshing drinks to beat this summer heat!

New on the menu is:
Nefertiti’s Secret: a milk tea mash up of your favorite Egyptian Karkadeh!

And per your request, coconut and “limonada” have been added too! I’m so excited for Limonada a la Bolivár because Limonada de Coco was one of my favorite drinks to enjoy when visiting Cartagena a while back! Scroll to see my very first one at

Which drink are you most excited to try at tomorrow???

✨Moments of Truth✨

Ok can we just talk about this for a second?! You know your product is good when a toddler can’t stop sippin😂🤣

This little one kept sippin and sippin until mama didn’t have any left to sip for herself😂🤣

Toddlers don’t lie you guys!🤣

I’m sorry, but this little dude is probably my absolute favorite customer🥺

Scroll to the second photo where he played his mama & papa about where the tea went🤣🥲

(Don’t worry ya’ll! This tea is non-caffeinated!😉)

✨Barista Sonja✨

Barista Sonja pulled her first shot on La Escala’s Amore La Marzocco this weekend and we had to capture this moment!😍

A perfect shot on her first try🙌🏽 Moments like these are unforgettable!

Cheers to many more!
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✨Nefertiti’s Secret✨

On tap at Artists 4 Luis tonight

Do you love milk teas??? Let us know in the comments!!!

✨Tonight✨

Come out to the Luis Rodriguez Art Festival!!!
📍1300 E 1st St
Los Angeles
⏰: 7pm-10pm

✨Come Find Us!✨

We can’t wait to see you all at our upcoming events!!!

We will still have bottle pick up options through the week!
Keep checking our stories for all the details✨

June 4th:

June 11th:

✨Churros con Choco-Latte✨

It made quite a hit this weekend and I think it deserves to stick around for a bit🤤

What do you guys think? Should we leave this on the menu for a bit???