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L.A.’s buzziest coffee shop is in a gorgeous Angelino Heights home. Is this the start of a bigger trend?

L.A.’s buzziest coffee shop is in a gorgeous Angelino Heights home. Is this the start of a bigger trend?

It’s 10:54 a.m. Thursday at Granada coffee shop in Angelino Heights, on one of those 73-degree winter mornings in Los Angeles when the sky glows its sunniest cobalt-blue through bare branches. An 11-person-deep line stretches just past the open door. I’m sitting on an L-shaped couch with sturdy burgundy upholstery, taking in the scene while waiting for a cortado. The room beams casual charm — plants, light woods, abstract prints on the wall to add color, a communal table and a toddler-size rocking chair among a couple Eames-style loungers — and couldn’t hold many more people. Three women, all with babies in their arms, find seats at a second common table in the backyard garden, joining others who’ve disappeared into laptop-headphones concentration mode. A guy with a complicated-looking video camera pans the crowd while maneuvering around the furniture. He’s in media, too, and we’re here for the same reason. What makes this coffee destination unique Sydney Wayser and her husband, Isaac Watters, opened Granada in early January. They run it out of the ground-floor section …