Palisades Garden Cafe

What Palisades Garden Cafe does

Palisades Garden Cafe is a single-location independent restaurant in Pacific Palisades, California, serving cooked-to-order breakfast, lunch, and dinner from its storefront at 15231 La Cruz Drive. The menu spans freshly baked pastries, freshly ground coffee, sandwiches, salads, burgers, and a range of prepared dishes, with the cafe positioned as a neighborhood gathering place rather than a destination concept. The business leverages a minimal technology footprint — a WordPress-based marketing site and a third-party ChowNow integration for takeout ordering — with no disclosed proprietary systems, custom software, or data platforms. Revenue is generated across four channels: in-store dining (primary), ChowNow-powered online ordering, a recurring weekly school lunch delivery program serving local Pacific Palisades schools with a Friday cutoff ordering cycle, and event catering for organizations and groups. The customer base is concentrated in the immediate Pacific Palisades community, including local families, parents of school-age children, and community organizations such as PPBA Little League and the Chamber of Commerce, which the cafe actively sponsors. Operating with 1–10 employees on roughly 59 hours per week (closed Sundays), the business was materially impacted by the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and in November 2025 received a $40,000 recovery grant from Steadfast LA and Banc of California to fund rebuilding, labor, and insurance expenses as part of a broader $400,000 small business recovery program.

Name

Palisades Garden Cafe

Legal name

Palisades Garden Cafe

Website

https://paligardencafe.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Single-location independent restaurant in Pacific Palisades, California, serving cooked-to-order breakfast, lunch, and dinner with freshly baked pastries and ground coffee. Operates dine-in service, ChowNow online ordering, weekly school lunch delivery, and event catering for the local community.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Dining Restaurant

NAICS

Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

All-Day Dining Restaurants (THAFACAJ)

Keywords

• Casual dining restaurant
• Breakfast lunch dinner
• School lunch delivery
• Event catering services
• Neighborhood cafe

Headquarters

HQ city

Pacific Palisades

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. In-store dining: The primary revenue stream consists of walk-in customers purchasing breakfast, lunch, and dinner items at the physical cafe location at 15231 La Cruz Drive, Pacific Palisades, CA. Menu includes freshly baked pastries, freshly ground coffee, breakfast items, sandwiches, salads, burgers, and various prepared foods.
2. School Lunch Delivery: Recurring revenue from weekly school lunch orders delivered to local schools. Parents register accounts and order meals in advance (cutoff is Friday midnight for the following week). This represents a subscription-like recurring revenue model through scheduled weekly orders.
3. Catering Services: Catering menu available for events and large group orders, providing one-time or event-based revenue from corporate gatherings, parties, and special occasions.
4. Online Ordering: Orders placed through the ChowNow platform for pickup, representing an additional transaction channel for in-store prepared food.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Palisades Garden Cafe is a single-location local eatery in Pacific Palisades, California serving cooked-to-order breakfast, lunch, and dinner items including freshly baked pastries, sandwiches, salads, burgers, and freshly ground coffee. It also operates a recurring school lunch delivery program to local schools and provides catering services for events and large groups.

Product overview

Palisades Garden Cafe is a single-location local eatery in Pacific Palisades, CA. The core offering is its restaurant and dining services featuring an extensive breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu with freshly prepared, cooked-to-order items including pastries and coffee. Supporting offerings include an online ordering integration via Chownow, a dedicated school lunch delivery program for students (Monday-Friday with advance ordering), and catering services for events and groups.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Restaurant and Dining Services Full-service dine-in experience at the Pacific Palisades cafe offering cooked-to-order breakfast, lunch, and dinner items including freshly baked pastries, sandwiches, salads, burgers, and freshly ground coffee, served to local residents and walk-in customers.
• School Lunch Delivery Monday-through-Friday student lunch delivery service to local Pacific Palisades schools, allowing parents to register accounts and order healthy, prepared meals in advance with a Friday midnight cutoff for the following week.
• Catering Services Catering menu and packages available for corporate events, large group orders, parties, and special occasions in the Pacific Palisades area, ordered by contacting the cafe directly.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• PPBA Little LeagueminorOthersPalisades Garden Cafe is a proud sponsor of PPBA Little League, providing financial and community support to local youth sports.
• Pacific Palisades Chamber of CommerceminorOthersPalisades Garden Cafe is a proud sponsor of the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce, supporting local business community development.
• Local Schools and OrganizationsminorOthersPalisades Garden Cafe is a proud sponsor of all local schools, clubs, and organizations in the Pacific Palisades community.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Peet's Coffee: Specialty coffee and cafe chain with a similar product mix (coffee, pastries, breakfast and lunch items). Highly comparable on the beverage and light-food side of the cafe's offering, though national in scale.
• Panera Bread: National cafe-bakery chain offering soups, salads, sandwiches, and baked goods, with a comparable all-day menu and a more developed catering program — relevant both as a competitor and as a benchmark for the cafe's potential catering expansion.
• Sweetgreen: National fast-casual chain with a comparable fresh, healthy-ingredient positioning and similar menu categories (salads, bowls, sandwiches), operating at much greater scale and providing a benchmark for the cafe's healthier menu items.
• Mendocino Farms: LA-based fast-casual chain focused on sandwiches, salads, and fresh-ingredient positioning. Comparable on menu philosophy (fresh, cooked-to-order) and LA market presence, though with a more limited breakfast offering.
• Starbucks: Global coffee and cafe chain that overlaps directly with Palisades Garden Cafe on freshly ground coffee, breakfast items, and pastries, but operates at vastly greater scale and with a more limited dine-in service model.

Direct peers

• The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf: LA-founded coffee and tea chain with a comparable product set (fresh coffee, baked goods, breakfast and lunch fare) and a strong Southern California footprint, making it a direct head-to-head competitor for Pacific Palisades-area coffee and casual dining occasions.
• Olive & Thyme: LA-based neighborhood cafe and catering operation with an overlapping model: sit-down cafe service combined with a significant catering arm. Directly comparable on the cafe-plus-catering dual revenue model.
• Urth Caffe: LA-based organic coffee and cafe chain with a similar sit-down cafe format, breakfast/lunch focus, and commitment to fresh, high-quality ingredients. Closest local analog in terms of format and customer experience.

Regional players

• Erewhon: LA-based upscale grocer and prepared-food operator with a strong Pacific Palisades-area customer base and cafe-style prepared foods. Competes for the same affluent, health-conscious Pacific Palisades customer as the cafe.
• Joan's on Third: LA-based cafe, marketplace, and catering operation with a similar mix of dine-in, grab-and-go, and large-scale catering. Comparable on the diversified cafe + catering model, though serving a broader LA market from a single large location.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/pgcgardencafe
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• Instagraminstagram.com/explore/locations/4555393
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/palisades-garden-cafe

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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