In style South Korean Dessert Cafe Knotted Opened Its First U.S. Location in LA

South Korea’s hottest dessert cafe and cream doughnut specialist, Cafe Knotted, has landed within the U.S. for the primary time with a location on the Westfield Century Metropolis. The cafe, which opened its first location in Seoul in 2017, has since expanded with areas close to Haeundae Seashore in Busan, within the Anguk neighborhood in Seoul, and extra. Alongside the doughnuts, Knotted is well-known for its retailer character, Sugar Bear, a stuffed bear with a smiley face on its abdomen.

Cafe Knotted is a part of a wider development of dessert-focused cafes in South Korea — extremely designed espresso retailers that serve Instagrammable pastries like cheese-shaped cheesecake, sugar-dusted mountains of fluffy bread, and, on this case, cream-filled doughnuts. Cafe Knotted could also be finest identified for its seasonal strawberry cream doughnut, which comes sliced open on the prime and stuffed with barely candy cream and strawberries. Different taste choices embrace kaya butter, milk cream, and chocolate. The cafe additionally serves croissants, salt bread, and extra pastries, in addition to artistic espresso and matcha drinks.

On the Century Metropolis outpost, Knotted continues its deal with ingenious cafe drinks, together with iced and cream-topped lattes in flavors like chestnut tiramisu, corn cream, and banana. For matcha choices, the cafe serves a primary match latte, a signature iced Knotted cream prime matcha latte, and an iced strawberry cream prime matcha latte. Extra traditional choices embrace drip espresso, Americanos, and vanilla lattes, alongside a handful of sizzling and iced teas.

For pastries, Century Metropolis’s Knotted affords a full line-up of cream-stuffed doughnuts in flavors like Boston chocolate glazed, lemon curd, and raspberry. A Banana Kick doughnut is sliced open with a small banana resting on the prime, whereas the strawberry cream has a swipe of fruit jam in its inside. A tiramisu doughnut contains a flourish of burnt marshmallow. Alongside the doughnuts, the cafe serves specialty croissants with spinach and pepper, strawberries, chocolate, and almonds. Cookie choices embrace Mexican sizzling chocolate, gluten-free chocolate chip, and matcha white chocolate.

Knotted is amongst a lineup of current arrivals to Los Angeles from South Korea. In Might 2024 Korean cafe Camel Espresso opened within the former Silver Lake Cafe Caravan area, adopted by spicy noodle chain Jjampong Zizon opening in Los Angeles’s Koreatown. Extra lately, in January 2025, South Korea-based sot bap (pot rice) chain Dam Sot opened its first U.S. location in Koreatown. The wave of arrivals doesn’t seem to be it’s slowing down anytime quickly both — the group behind Knotted, GFFG Hospitality, is planning on opening an outpost of South Korea’s Hojokban within the Arts District this yr, together with one other location of Knotted.