House Roots Coffee is a specialty coffee shop and music venue committed to extracting the best of coffee, cause, and community.
Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, we are a group of community members deeply passionate about people, coffee and the place we call home, our roots. As House Roots Coffee, we believe in providing affordable, freshly brewed coffee from the best roasters from around the world and inviting our customers to partner with us in "cup for a cause." Profits from each brew, pastry, etc. will be divided and dedicated to local community programs, relief efforts, and non-profit projects overseas. In doing so, we aim to inspire our community to invest in people and use the power of their dollar to do more. In addition to pairing delicious coffee with deserving causes, we hope to become a place where art and creativity flourish: live concerts and a gallery for art featuring local artists and talents are an integral part of who we are. In everything we do, we believe in walking with people from start to finish, whether this means caring about the last cup of coffee as much as we did the first or remaining committed to the causes we support and regularly updating those who've partnered with us on their growth and progress. House Roots Coffee is dedicated to these three core values: coffee, cause, community.
My name is Thomas. I am the brand manager here at Households Coffee in Granada Hills. We've been open since September and my role here is to make sure everything's looking somewhat okay. My role is making sure the customer's experiences is as best as we can have it from menus to furniture, social media. It's kind of my role here. Households Coffee was pretty started by a bunch of Valley kids. We're in the San Fernando Valley right now and we all grew up together. Went to church together. We would drive down to downtown to check out the cool stuff together and then come back and growing up there wasn't a lot of good. The Valley didn't have a very good reputation past the 80s. I think the 80s the Valley was great. Karate kids, San Lod, all these things are getting shot here. Yeah, I've had the Valley girls. But kind of late 90s and early 2000s, people didn't really have many good things to say about the Valley. We really wanted to open something We would love it when people would talk about the Valley in this way in a positive way. Around We didn't have anywhere to do it so we just started practicing at our church. We would make pour-over by V60s off of Amazon, buy beans from Starbucks. Eventually we got That's just kind of how it started. We started to form a community which was really cool. People started to come and want coffee. A couple of us realized very quickly that we didn't know what were doing. We had no idea what were doing in terms of coffee. We called it So whatever we found on YouTube, that's how were learning how to make coffee. Then we reached out to James from Cafe Dolce. Hey James. We basically asked him to take us under his wing. Our first guy, our coffee director, his name is Jimmy. He got a job there. Then eventually I got a job there, which was tough because at that time Dolce was one of the very few coffee shops. Us being at Dolce was so we could learn the craft of coffee, learn the art of hospitality because I think to this day Dolce is one of the most comfortable, hospitable coffee shops you can find yourself in. So we wanted to really take that and implant it back into the valley. That's why we chose the valley. We hated people talking bad about our city. We knew weren't going anywhere anytime soon. So for about two and a half years we drove down every morning to learn to pull shifts at Cafe Dolce, learn coffee and eventually started raising money ourselves and started doing pop-ups. We built little carts, did wedding venues, did farmers markets, popped up for about three and a half years in We popped up and we started to gain traction and gain a following. That's what kind of platformed us to be in this space now back in the valley. So a little long-winded way to answer your question but yeah we always knew we wanted to be in the valley. We always told each other like It's time that the valley has some goodness coming out of it.
