Blank Street Coffee Studio City: Now Open on Ventura Blvd
Studio City · Food and drink
The viral New York matcha and coffee chain opened its first West Coast cafe on Ventura Boulevard. Where it is, what to order, and why a brand this deliberate picked this side of the hill.
The short answer
Blank Street Coffee opened in Studio City on August 21, 2026, at 13273 Ventura Blvd. It is the New York brand's first West Coast cafe and its 106th worldwide. The shop is open 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, serving its blueberry matcha alongside an LA-exclusive drink, the Cortado Cloud.
Blank Street Coffee Studio City is open, and for a brand this deliberate about where it lands, that is worth paying attention to.
If the name does not ring a bell yet, give it a week on TikTok. Blank Street is the matcha and coffee chain that quietly took over New York, London, Boston, and Washington, DC over the last five years. In spring 2026 it announced its Los Angeles debut with two cafes, one in Beverly Hills and one here, and on Friday, August 21, the Studio City doors opened first. It is the kind of arrival that shows up on the Studio City real estate radar before it lands anywhere else in the Valley, which is why a real estate agent in Studio City is writing about a coffee shop at all.
That is a meaningful pick. Blank Street could have opened anywhere in California, and it chose Studio City for the first door it has ever put on the West Coast, ahead of Beverly Hills and ahead of the whole Westside. For a brand built on knowing exactly where its people are, that says something about where this neighborhood sits on the cultural map right now. It fits a pattern Debbie Pisaro has watched for years, where design-minded concepts test neighborhoods on the rise here first.
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Founded in Brooklyn in 2020, Blank Street has grown to 106 locations, and Studio City is the newest of them. The cafes are instantly recognizable: soft sage green interiors, minimalist counters, and a menu built around drinks that look as good as they taste. Its blueberry matcha became a full-on social media phenomenon, and seasonal creations like lemon loaf matcha and cherry glaze matcha keep the lineup feeling fresh.
The brand also has a serious pop culture footprint. Sabrina Carpenter pulled a barista shift at a London location to promote "Espresso." Kendall Jenner partnered through her 818 tequila brand. Emma Chamberlain has collaborated. Blank Street even launched a fashion-forward beverage sleeve, called "The Sleeve," timed to fashion week.
In other words, this was not a quiet opening. It is the kind of arrival that reshapes a corner of a neighborhood the moment the doors swing open, the same way a marquee restaurant does when it joins the ranks of Studio City's independent, design-forward businesses.
Why Studio City makes sense
Studio City has been on a quiet but undeniable upswing. Ventura Boulevard keeps adding the kind of independent, design-forward small businesses that used to feel reserved for the Eastside. Coffee and Plants, founded by Leona Lewis, is thriving. The walkable stretches near Tujunga Village and Laurel Canyon feel busier and more curated every season, and new restaurants keep planting flags here instead of farther west.
Blank Street placing its first West Coast door here fits squarely into that story. It is a brand that follows the crowd carefully, and it clearly sees what locals already know. The same walkability that draws dog-friendly restaurants and packs the patios on a perfect-weather afternoon is exactly what a matcha brand wants in a corner spot. If you have been tracking the neighborhood the way Debbie Pisaro covers the Netflix takeover of Radford Studio Center, a viral coffee brand choosing Studio City for its West Coast debut is right on trend.
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It is open. Blank Street unlocked the doors at 13273 Ventura Blvd on Friday, August 21, 2026, making Studio City the first West Coast location for a brand that now runs 106 cafes worldwide. The Beverly Hills store announced alongside it back in April has not opened yet, which means Studio City did not just get one of the first two Los Angeles cafes. It got the first one, period.
The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week. Expect a line for the first few weeks; that has been the pattern at every opening the brand has done. If you would rather not queue, the quiet windows are before eight in the morning and the stretch after the lunch rush thins out.
The interior is worth walking in for even if you never touch the menu. Blank Street built this one as an homage to the Case Study houses, and it reads that way from the sidewalk: low horizontal lines, warm wood, a Scandinavian take on mid-century California with just enough retro in it to feel like a wink rather than a copy. It is a national chain doing a very specific piece of local homework, and they did it well.
A coffee company flew in from New York and decided the way to look like it belongs here was to borrow from the Case Study houses. They were not wrong.
That vocabulary, post-and-beam, glass opening to the garden, the roofline that runs flat and long, came out of these hills and this side of the Valley. California produced that architecture, and Studio City holds one of its denser surviving pockets, which is a real part of why the walkable blocks below Ventura hold their value the way they do. If you have ever stood in a room like that and wondered what one of them trades for now, that is the part of the neighborhood Debbie Pisaro spends her days in. You can see what is moving in the Studio City market, or read how the walkable pockets price against the rest of the neighborhood.
The Studio City events calendar is where the next round of openings gets flagged as they are confirmed.
What to order
If you want to know what the hype is actually about, the blueberry matcha is the place to start. It is the drink that built the brand. Lemon loaf matcha is the dark horse pick for anyone who finds straight matcha a little too earthy, and the full espresso menu is there for anyone who never made the jump to green in the first place.
The one you cannot get anywhere else is the Cortado Cloud, made for Los Angeles and not sold at the East Coast or London cafes. Later this year the Studio City store is also slated to debut Blank Street's ice cream, with flavors built off the drinks people already order, white chocolate matcha among them.
When a brand like Blank Street follows the crowd to a neighborhood, it is usually reading the same signals that move home values. That overlap is the whole reason Just Studio City exists, and why Studio City real estate and the boulevard's openings get covered on the same page. Whether you are weighing selling a Studio City home or simply following the neighborhood, it helps to have the read from the best real estate agent in Studio City, and her contact page is the quickest way to reach her.
Frequently asked questions
Is Blank Street open in Studio City?
Yes. Blank Street Coffee opened in Studio City on Friday, August 21, 2026, at 13273 Ventura Blvd. It is the brand's first cafe on the West Coast and its 106th location worldwide. The Beverly Hills store announced alongside it back in April 2026 has not opened yet, so Studio City got the first Los Angeles door outright.
Where is Blank Street in Studio City?
Blank Street Studio City sits at 13273 Ventura Blvd, on the walkable stretch of the boulevard near Tujunga Village. That corridor has absorbed most of the neighborhood's recent independent food and coffee openings, which is very likely why the brand chose the address it did rather than a spot farther west along Ventura.
What are Blank Street Studio City's hours?
Blank Street Studio City is open 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week. Expect a line through the first few weeks, which has been the pattern at openings in New York, London, and Boston. The quiet windows are before eight in the morning and the stretch after the lunch rush thins out.
Why did Blank Street choose Studio City for its first West Coast cafe?
Blank Street is deliberate about placement, and Studio City offered what the brand looks for: a genuinely walkable retail corridor along Ventura Boulevard, dense housing directly behind it, and a run of design-forward independent businesses already pulling the same customer. Choosing it ahead of the Westside says something real about where Los Angeles retail momentum sits.
What is the Cortado Cloud?
The Cortado Cloud is a Los Angeles-exclusive drink built for the Studio City opening and not sold at Blank Street's East Coast or London cafes. The brand has positioned it as its next signature beverage, the follow-up to the blueberry matcha that made its name on social media over the past several years.
What is Blank Street known for?
Blank Street is best known for its matcha, particularly the viral blueberry matcha, along with seasonal drinks like lemon loaf matcha and cherry glaze matcha. The brand is also recognized for its minimalist sage green cafe design and a steady run of celebrity collaborations that keep it in circulation online.
How many Blank Street locations exist?
Studio City is Blank Street's 106th location worldwide. The chain operates across New York, Boston, Washington, DC, and London, and this is its first cafe anywhere on the West Coast. It grew from a single Brooklyn location in 2020 to that count in roughly six years, which is a fast build by any measure.
Is Blank Street only matcha, or does it sell coffee too?
Both. Blank Street started as a coffee company and still runs a full espresso menu, but the matcha drinks became the signature offering and carry most of the social media attention. The Studio City store serves the whole lineup, plus the Cortado Cloud, which is on the espresso side rather than the green one.
Why does a real estate agent write articles about a neighborhood?
Because the two are the same subject. What a house is worth in Studio City is decided by the street it sits on, what is walkable from it, and who is opening on the boulevard. Debbie Pisaro is a 24-year veteran and a Studio City real estate agent who tracks the neighborhood because that is where the number comes from.
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Debbie Pisaro is a 24-year veteran, founder of Coastline 840, and a 2025 Inman Luxury Leader, representing buyers and sellers across Studio City and the surrounding neighborhoods. DRE #01369110. This post was first published in April 2026 and updated August 23, 2026 to confirm that Blank Street opened on August 21, 2026, at 13273 Ventura Blvd, with hours, the Case Study interior, and the LA-exclusive Cortado Cloud. Coastline 840 · Studio City