Aroma Café & Restaurant
Open daily, 11 AM – 10 PM (310) 836-2919 Reserve a table
(310) 836-2919
Open daily, 11 AM – 10 PM 2530 Overland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90064

Everything here is made after you order it.

A family-run Mediterranean and Bosnian kitchen on Overland Ave since 2004. Pita baked in-house every morning, ćevapi rolled by hand, coffee brewed one cup at a time.

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Ćevapi and pljeskavica on homemade pita bread at Aroma Café, West Los Angeles
2004 Same family, same corner of Overland Ave.
“Pljeskavica is among the best options in the great hamburger city of Los Angeles.”

Jonathan GoldPulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic, Los Angeles Times

Seven write-ups in the LA Times, LA Weekly and LA Taco over twenty years, for a thirty-seat room on a residential corner.

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Three things we refuse to hurry

There is no freezer shortcut in this kitchen. That is the whole business model, and it has worked for twenty years.

Charcoal-grilled meat at Aroma Café, West Los Angeles
Over charcoal

The grill

Ćevapi are rolled by hand, pljeskavica is pressed to order, and both go straight onto charcoal. It is the Bosnian way of grilling, and it is the reason people drive across town for it.

Aroma Café sandwich on pita bread baked in-house
Baked every morning

The bread

Pita and burek come out of our own oven each day. Nothing arrives frozen, and nothing sits waiting. It is the difference you taste first.

Fresh Mediterranean salad bowl at Aroma Café
Cut after you order

The kitchen

Salads are chopped and dressed once your order is in. Coffee is brewed a cup at a time. Please do not mind the short wait, it is the whole point.

Aroma Café signature ćevapi and pljeskavica served on homemade pita
The one people come back for

Ćevapi and pljeskavica

Ten small beef kebabs, or one wide patty, charcoal-grilled and folded into pita with raw onion, kajmak and ajvar. It is the dish Bosnians judge a restaurant by, and it is the dish that put us in the LA Times.

$10.50Ćevapi, half portion
$20.50Ćevapi, full portion
$20.50Pljeskavica
See the full menu Order by phone
$10.50

Weekday lunch, half portions

Pick one pita, burek, sandwich or ćevapi, then one soup or salad. Half portions, served 12–2 PM, weekends excluded.

12:00 – 2:00 PM Monday to Friday

A few of the regulars’ regulars

Full menu, nine sections
Ćevapi
$10.50 / $20.50

Ground beef kebabs on pita baked this morning

Pljeskavica
$20.50

Beef patty on homemade pita, the one Jonathan Gold wrote about

“Sarma” in sour cabbage
$11.50 / $22.50

Ground beef and rice, slow-cooked

“Bosanski lonac”
$24.50

Slow-cooked vegetable and chunky beef stew

Ground beef burek
$9.50 / $18.50

From our own oven, half or full tray

“Shopska” salad
$9.50 / $16.50

Tomato, cucumber, red onion, bell pepper, feta

“Aroma” chicken
$23.50

Grilled breast with parsley, garlic and lemon, grilled vegetables

Turkish coffee
$3.00

Brewed the traditional way, one cup at a time

Twenty years on the same corner

Aroma Café opened in April 2004 as a family business, and it has stayed one. We bring Bosnian and wider Mediterranean cooking to West LA using seasonal ingredients and the kind of attention you would give food at home.

The room is small, the pita oven runs all morning, and the grill is charcoal. People find us by accident and then bring their parents.

2004Opened in April
7Days a week, every week
7Press write-ups
DailyPita from our own oven
Our story
Aroma Café exterior at 2530 Overland Ave, West Los Angeles
Inside the Aroma Café dining room in West LA
Aroma Café patio seating on Overland Ave
Aroma Café dining room tables, Los Angeles

What people say after they leave

  • “Delicious food, tasting the freshness of the ingredients, and great and friendly service. Would recommend and definitely go again.”
    Ivan Ilieff
    Facebook
  • “I have been coming here for years, food and service is getting better every time. Great people, great food, great energy.”
    Nesh S.
    Yelp
  • “Good food, good prices & friendly staff. Coffee’s good as well. We loved our small stop there.”
    Nico
    TripAdvisor
  • “Such a hidden gem! Unpretentious, cute, European. You feel right at home the moment you walk in.”
    The Taste Sheriff
    Foursquare

Written about in

LA Times
Jonathan Gold’s favorite Los Angeles burgers (not made in a lab)
LA Weekly
Aroma Cafe: even if you can’t pronounce pljeskavica, you can point
LA Times
Smile and say “cheese burek”
LA Weekly
Bosnia’s Big Mac
LA Weekly
5 great L.A. cafés for Turkish coffee
LA Taco
Aroma Cafe, West LA

A table is usually easier to get than you think.

We are open every day of the year, 11 AM to 10 PM. Walk in, or call ahead for a bigger group and we will have the table ready.

(310) 836-2919

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Hours
Monday to Sunday, 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Good to know
Walk-ins welcome. Street parking on Overland and the side streets.