Laidrey Coffee, the San Fernando Valley roaster known for sourcing beans from female-led farms, is planning its fourth retail location at 2302 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd, with owner Gacia Tachejian targeting a November 2027 opening for the 1,100-square-foot space. The move would extend the brand's reach further into Ventura County, following its 2025 debut in Agoura Hills, and mark its first foothold in downtown Thousand Oaks.
According to WhatNow, the Thousand Oaks cafe will feature bench and bar seating along with a curated collection of local business products, and Tachejian wants the design to reflect both the Laidrey brand and the character of the area. She envisions a coffee shop with what the outlet describes as a California ranch and beach vibe. Tachejian, who owns the company, told the publication that Ventura County residents care about their community, a sentiment she said is shaping how the new location will feel once it opens.
Laidrey has three existing locations, all serving coffees, baked treats and seasonal toasts, and the company has described its growth as an intentional expansion strategy rather than rapid, scattershot growth. The brand targets neighborhoods that want and need specialty coffee but lack it, per the same account, a philosophy that has guided its moves from Tarzana into Encino, Agoura Hills and now Thousand Oaks.
From a Garage Roaster to a Regional Brand
Tachejian opened Laidrey's first brick-and-mortar location in Tarzana in 2022, but her path to coffee roasting started well before that. Before launching the business as a pop-up cart in 2021, Tachejian worked as a UCLA behavioral research scientist who taught herself to roast coffee in her garage on a 1-pound Behmor roaster, according to the Los Angeles Business Journal. She began experimenting with roasting to avoid lengthy commute detours in search of quality coffee.
She later co-founded Laidrey with molecular pharmacologist Marisa Briones and Paul Burgis, the former CFO and COO of Golden Road Brewing, as Edible San Fernando Valley reports. The pair reportedly decided to launch the business after sampling Tachejian's home garage roasts during COVID-19 quarantines, pairing her scientific background with Burgis's craft-beverage business experience. Laidrey became the first majority woman-owned specialty coffee roastery and café in the San Fernando Valley, with its main roasting handled on a German-built Probat P5 machine visible to guests inside its Tarzana café, according to Daily Coffee News.
Sourcing Beans From Women-Led Farms
Central to Laidrey's identity is its coffee sourcing. The company exclusively roasts traceable single-origin beans bought directly or through specialty importers such as Sustainable Harvest and Covoya, prioritizing farms where women make up as much as 70% of the workforce, Daily Coffee News notes. Female farmers historically perform a majority of the manual harvesting in coffee-growing regions without receiving equal pay, the outlet reports, a gap Laidrey has said its sourcing model aims to address.
That mission helped Laidrey secure funding for its second location, which opened at 17034 Ventura Boulevard in Encino in July 2023. The expansion was partly financed through a grant from Regarding Her, a nonprofit that supports women-owned food and beverage enterprises, according to SoCalPulse. The Encino space was reportedly acquired from a local artist who had originally planned to combine a studio with a cafe.
A Ventura County Foothold Ahead of a Boulevard Overhaul
Laidrey's move into Ventura County began on May 1, 2025, with the opening of a 2,000-square-foot café featuring a central kitchen island bar and seating for 30 at 5021 Kanan Road in Agoura Hills, its third retail location overall. On the food side, Laidrey does not run its own commercial kitchen; instead it partners with regional bakeries including Bakers Kneaded, Larder and Chaumont to supply pastries and light bites, with the menu also featuring products from woman-owned brands such as Mylk Labs.
The planned Thousand Oaks cafe sits within a 1.64-acre parcel that has previously housed administrative tenants like Select Staffing, per LoopNet listings, in a commercial property spanning more than 18,000 square feet total. Its arrival would also land amid a broader civic push: the City of Thousand Oaks approved an updated Downtown Core Master Plan in June, aimed at transforming Thousand Oaks Boulevard into a walkable commercial corridor with more than 30,000 square feet of new retail and dining space, updating specific plan guidelines first drafted in 1989 and 2011.
Laidrey isn't the only specialty food brand eyeing the growing Conejo Valley market. Paris Baguette announced its first Conejo Valley location on North Moorpark Road, taking over a former Fatburger space in the Whole Foods plaza, as Hoodline previously reported. With more than a year to go before its planned opening, Laidrey's Thousand Oaks build-out remains subject to the ordinary permitting and construction timelines that come with commercial real estate along a boulevard now under active redevelopment.
