Cafe MUSE is owned and operated by long-time friends, Jennifer Ritchkoff & Crystal Jackson. 

Jennifer & Crystal are theatre artists who met around the year 2000, as company members of West Coast Ensemble theatre company in Los Angeles, and become fast friends while working on a play together.  Years later, they became theatre buddies, seeing local theatre all over Los Angeles.  In the late Spring of 2007, while seeing shows in the Hollywood area, they discovered that there wasn't a restaurant in the Theater Row area of Hollywood (especially one that would accommodate Jennifer's vegan diet!).   When the space at the Hudson Theaters was discovered empty, Jennifer & Crystal started talking about the possibilities... and that is when Cafe MUSE was born.

A vegetarian for over a decade, Jennifer developed a passion for cooking and nutrition.  She also has a great deal of experience, having worked in a variety of eateries over the years (she is an actress, after all!).  Crystal also had food industry experience, and once ran a supper club in Washington DC.   Together they came up with the Cafe MUSE concept:  a healthy eatery that would also be an entertainment venue to showcase the vast talent in the Hollywood area.  They also decided this area needed a really great, cozy and quiet, coffeehouse that opened early and stayed open late... to meet the needs of the creative people who live and work in the neighborhood.   They wanted to create a real neighborhood-type place where friends can meet and network, or come to work, while enjoying some good coffee, some really good food, and some really really good entertainment! 

 Although Crystal is not a vegetarian, she agreed to the mostly-vegetarian and vegan menu (thanks, Crystal!), and its proven to be a worthy decision... vegetarians & non-vegetarians alike love the food!   Serving dishes we call healthy, comfort foods, we offer the kind of food you would make for yourself if you had all the ingredients at home.   We are so impressed by how adventurous people have been to eat new foods like veggie chicken, turkey and steak!  We are so thrilled that plates are licked clean, and people keep coming back for more!  We would like to thank our friends and families, and our wonderful new neighbors, for their support of Cafe MUSE. 

We believe in using fresh, natural ingredients...
and that simple and healthy food can also be delicious and nutritious!    
We believe in eating to live, not living to eat. 
We believe that eating good food can be a spiritual experience.
We also believe that art is as important as food.
We believe it is just as important to feed your art, as it is to feed your body.

We believe in feeding the body... and feeding the spirit.