Couple Turns House Into Coffee Shop, Child Builds Fortress of Pillows in Annex
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- â˘In January 2026, Sydney Wayser and Isaac Watters opened Granada, a coffee shop in their Angelino Heights home basement.
- â˘The business uses LA Countyâs MEHKO permit, allowing limited staff and revenue from serving food and coffee at home.
- â˘The couple balances parenthood and business by operating during their daughterâs school hours and tidying pillow fort wars nightly.
In January 2026, Sydney Wayser and Isaac Watters merged their life, love, and LA home by launching Granada, a coffee shop operating legally from their Angelino Heights basement thanks to LAâs new MEHKO permit. They serve Sasha Piligianâs pastries and assemble human communities craving cortados while dodging the anxiety of having a toddler launch pillow sieges after hours. Isaac, also a film set and architecture pro, co-designed their 'accidental cafĂŠ' house with an indoor-outdoor vibe perfectly timed for pandemic loneliness and post-COVID community drought. Hours coincide with their daughterâs school, because nothing says cozy coffee like strategic parenting and relentless couch fort reconstruction.
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Why pay rent for a coffee shop when you can just charge your neighborâs existential dread rent from your basement? Also, 3-year-olds will overthrow your Instagram aesthetic faster than espresso shots kick in.
They say the key to success is location, location, location â or apparently, just your couch cushions and a government permit.
Mix baby chaos, overpriced espresso, and a living room-turned-art-salonâcongratulations, youâve invented hipster domestic bliss.
Source: Eater | Published: 2/11/2026 | Author: Bettina Makalintal
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