A new all-day bar and café has flung open its glass doors in Los Angeles's Chinatown, pouring Czech-style beer thick with foam alongside midnight espresso shots — a hybrid bet landing just as Southern California's craft beer scene keeps losing longtime players. Niteglow, the brewery offshoot of boutique coffee company Dayglow, opened its doors on Thursday in a corner unit of a new glass building across from the Chinatown Metro station.
The venture is run by brothers Jonathan Ifergan and Tohm Ifergan, who founded both Dayglow and Niteglow, according to the New York Post. The pair said they wanted to build an all-day gathering place where coffee, beer, wine, and cocktails all coexist under one roof, per the Post's reporting. “You can have a beer at seven in the morning, or you can have an espresso at midnight,” Tohm Ifergan said.
That flexibility shows up on the clock: Niteglow is open from 7 a.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. The roughly 2,000-square-foot interior devotes about a third of its footprint to an on-site microbrewery, with a 500-square-foot outdoor patio and glass-walled doors that swing the whole space open onto the street, according to the New York Post.
Czech Milkpours Meet Guava Sours
The drink menu leans experimental. Alongside espresso, wine, and cocktails, Niteglow pours guava sours and prickly pear beers, with the kitchen emphasizing regional ingredients, sourcing relationships, and the raw character of its materials over chasing alcohol content, the Post reports.
The signature pour is the Czech-style milkpour — small glasses filled mostly with dense, velvety foam rather than liquid beer. Niteglow produces the effect using Czech-made Lukr side-pull taps, a style of faucet developed in the Czech Republic in 1991 that relies on a ball-valve mechanism and internal micro-screen, rather than a standard vertical plunger valve, to let bartenders dial in foam density, according to The Takeout. The traditional version, known as mlíko, is meant to be drunk immediately. Tohm Ifergan told the Post that customers are initially polarized by a glass that's mostly foam, but tend to come around once they try it. Niteglow also offers full-size pints for drinkers who want a more conventional pour.
A Mass-Timber Perch Near the Historic Park
Niteglow's Spring Street address sits inside a striking piece of new architecture. The building at 843 N. Spring St. is a 122,700-square-foot, five-story cross-laminated timber structure designed by LEVER Architecture, converted from a 1980s warehouse into one of Los Angeles's largest mass-timber developments, according to Commercial Property Executive. Houston-based Civicap Partners acquired the building from developer Redcar Properties in October 2025 for $35.8 million, backed by a $42.3 million loan from Bank OZK, the outlet reported.
The Ifergans are counting on that location to do some of the work for them. The site's proximity to the Metro stop is a key draw, and the brothers hope to pull in commuters hunting for morning coffee as well as visitors streaming out of the nearby Los Angeles State Historic Park, per the Post. The spot also lands inside an established beer micro-hub: Highland Park Brewery has a Chinatown facility, according to Hopped.
Niteglow marks the company's second brewery, following an earlier location in Brooklyn. It's also not the Ifergans' only play for Los Angeles growth — Tohm Ifergan was working on a second West Coast location at the Ovation Hollywood shopping complex on Hollywood Boulevard, which would be a taproom, per WhatNow.
Opening Into Headwinds
Niteglow's debut comes as the craft beer industry nationwide is contracting. U.S. craft beer production volume fell 4% in 2025 to about 22 million barrels, and the number of active craft breweries dropped 2.9% to 9,578, as 481 closures outpaced 300 new openings, according to 2026 statistics from the Brewers Association.
Southern California has felt that squeeze directly. Van Nuys brewery MacLeod Ale closed its taproom after 12 years, announcing the shutdown in September after helping introduce traditional British cask ales to the San Fernando Valley, per the seed facts from the Post's report. In Downtown L.A.'s Arts District, Angel City Brewery announced in February it would permanently close its brewery and taproom on April 30, 2026, after 15 years in operation, according to Secret Los Angeles.
Dayglow is a coffee company that operates at Niteglow's Chinatown site. Tohm Ifergan spent much of his 20s touring as a drummer for the indie rock band From Indian Lakes before moving into specialty coffee as a barista between tours, the outlet noted.
