Muffin Can Stop Us for Great Coffee + English Muffin Sandwiches
Waking up most mornings is challenging. But help has arrived! Muffin Can Stop Usopened shop on the bottom floor of Hope + Flower (on 12th between Hope and Flower) and helps to motivate us to get out of bed and head out for any number of coffee choices and English muffin sandwiches. Try a caramel coffee – double shot espresso, caramel foam, milk, caramel drizzle – or a banana boat – cold brew coffee, banana puree, whipped cream, milk – or an average Joe coffee or hot tea or juices. But don’t leave without a Mother Muffin Salmon sandwich or Elvis Pristine Muffin sandwich, or a B.L.A.S.T., or so many more choices.
Muffin Can Stop Us previewed in the neighborhood at last year’s SPNA Spring Garden Party at Wishbone Park with cold brew coffee and pastries. We have been waiting for their permanent opening featuring lots of egg yolk yellow including the coffee cups. They offer inside and outside seating as well as to-go. Hours are 7 am to 2 pm seven days a week.
Sarkis Takvoryan, owner and chef, and I talked over coffee about the addition of Muffin Can Stop Us in South Park. Other locations are Glendale and Studio City. Sarkis grew up in LA. His parents had a mom-and-pop family catering and event business that influenced Sarkis’s interest in the food business. He wanted to learn more about the culinary business and attend a Cordon Bleu school. He started catering, and then his life changed.
For two years Sarkis was Mariah Carey’s chef. He traveled the world with her, sampled the lavish lifestyle, and met many people. The next three years found him cooking for local LA celebrities. Muffin was born when serving as a chef for a family on vacation in Aspen. One morning he discovered there were no bagels but there were English muffins. Sarkis began creating a breakfast sandwich – a very successful sandwich that launched the idea for Muffin Can Stop Us.
The Glendale store opened at the start of COVID but since it was a walk-up with only outdoor seating it survived. Next up, Studio City and now South Park.
Sarkis lives in South Park above his store with his wife. He finds South Park a wonderful neighborhood – no sprawl but instead a vertical neighborhood. He loves the density. While Sarkis has spent much time with celebrities, he is a most down-to-earth person. While sitting outside drinking coffee, person after person spoke to him, one person called from across the street. Sarkis is a people person. Stop in and meet him and his team. Or order for pick-up - https://www.muffin.delivery/?location=11ee9ebcc8024206b7c0ac1f6bbbd01e. They make waking up each morning more enjoyable!
By Debra Shrout