Bread Returns to 2800 Hyperion as the Bar Next Door Files Its Own Replacement

How long can a Silver Lake storefront go between cheese plates? At 2800 Hyperion Avenue, the space next to Trader Joe's, the answer is about nineteen months. Say Cheese served its last customers in April 2025. Jyan Isaac Bread set Monday, November 2, 2026 as its opening day in the same room. It plans to start serving wine, cheese and charcuterie in the evenings in 2027.

At 2810, the next door up, things are going the other way. The bar's ownership hasn't changed, and that owner has filed to tear down the building. If you shop this strip every week, you're watching two neighboring addresses change on opposite terms. One keeps its trade and gets new operators. The other keeps its owner and loses a 1949 building.

The Counter at 2800 Changed Hands Before

Say Cheese was a shop with a long line of owners. According to the Los Angeles Times, it ran this way:

1. Jack and Esther Goldstyn opened Say Cheese in 1972.
2. They sold it in 1989 to Julie Noyes and Jerri Woods, and Noyes expanded the space to add a cafe.
3. Glenn Harrell started working behind the counter on October 17, 1996, and bought the business three years later.

That adds up to nearly 53 years of cheese, sandwiches and cafe tables at one address. The last public day was Wednesday, April 23, 2025, and the lease ended April 30. In his letter to customers, Harrell remembered watching their children grow up. When the Times asked what the job had taught him, he answered in one word.

"Community."

What the New Bakery Brings to the Room

The new tenant is Jyan Isaac Bread. Its founder, Jyan Isaac Horwitz, began baking in his family's kitchen in 2020 after losing his job at Gjusta in Venice during the pandemic. The Eastsider reports that the bakery is known for naturally fermented sourdough and bagels and that Silver Lake is its second permanent location. Eater traces how it grew: a pizza shop in 2022, stands at farmers' markets around the region, a full bakery and cafe in Santa Monica, and a commissary kitchen in Culver City.

Here's what Eater lists for 2800 Hyperion:

• Hours: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, plus weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Morning: bagel sandwiches, bread, bagels and pastries.
• Lunch: salads and sandwiches, including chicken katsu on Shokupan Texas toast and the bakery's well-known French onion grilled cheese.
• To take home: seeded sourdough loaves and bagels.
• Seating: 32 seats indoors and 16 on the patio, which Eater described as nearly finished.
• Design: an interior by M. Winter Design, using locally sourced materials, furniture from local makers, custom cabinets and vintage lighting found around the area.

The 2027 plan matters most for the block's story. Eater reports that the cafe will stay open into the evening and turn into a wine bar serving breads, cheese, charcuterie and tinned fish. That puts a cheese board back on the menu at an address that sold cheese from 1972 to 2025. The operators and the hours are new, but 2800 Hyperion is staying in the same trade.

Next Door, a 1949 Building Built for Nights Out

The building at 2810 Hyperion has a different history. Los Angeles Magazine traces it back to its first day:

1. 1949: It went up as three shops, including a dry cleaner and a donut store.
2. 1969: The storefronts were combined into one space with wood paneling and carpet, and it briefly became a restaurant called Nomad's Table.
3. The Woody's years: It turned into a gay bar called Woody's, probably named after owner P.N. Woodward. The ONE Archives at USC cites almost a dozen gay guides that listed the club in the 1970s and 1980s. The bar held events, carnivals in the parking lot and fundraisers for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. In the 1990s it added a lesbian night called "Utero."
4. 2002: Another gay bar, MJ's, took over. The building then had a streamlined nautical look, with porthole windows and a neon sign on the roof.
5. 2015: Tenants of the Trees opened after a large remodel and covered the exterior in wood planks.

When it opened, Tenants of the Trees was designed to be several venues in one. Eater LA's 2015 first look described a cocktail bar, a live-music room and an outdoor space for movies and food. Since the Woody's years, the building has mostly been a place people went to at night.

The Plan on File Comes From the Bar's Own Owner

In October 2026, H for Hyperion, LLC filed an application with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning to demolish the building and put up a five-story structure. Urbanize LA reports the plan includes 28 one-bedroom apartments over about 2,200 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. Bjarke Ingels Group designed it, and the plans show a low-rise building clad in steel. The application asks for density bonus incentives to allow a larger building than zoning would otherwise permit, and five apartments would be set aside for lower-income renters. The firm is better known for museums, concert halls and towers. Its other Southern California work includes a recently opened building at Claremont McKenna College and a long-planned tower complex in the Downtown Arts District.

According to The Real Deal, state business records connect H for Hyperion, LLC to the developer who owns Tenants of the Trees. The plan to replace the bar comes from the bar's own ownership. At 2800, the business that served the neighborhood for decades left, and the building owner brought in a new one. At 2810, the people who run the bar are proposing what replaces it.

The approval route matters to anyone who lives within a few blocks. Urbanize reported that the project is using the city's administrative review path, which doesn't require a separate environmental clearance or a public hearing. The city's Citywide Housing Incentive Program lists Expanded Administrative Review as one of the review pathways for its density bonus programs. The program is set out in Ordinances 188477 and 188478. City Planning's CHIP fact sheet calls this review ministerial and says it may include a staff-level informational hearing.

How to Keep Tabs on Both Doors

The two addresses need different kinds of attention this winter.

• 2800 Hyperion: Check the bakery's posted hours and watch for the patio to open. The bigger change is the evening wine bar Eater reported for 2027. That's the point when the old Say Cheese room goes back to selling cheese and bread under one roof.
• 2810 Hyperion: The application's case number is EAR-2026-5513-DB-VHCA, and anyone can look it up on City Planning's case search. Any staff decision or filing update will show up there before work starts on the site.
• The strip as a whole: The proposal keeps about 2,200 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor. Who rents that space will decide what the Trader Joe's end of Hyperion feels like when you walk it after dark.

A steel-clad low-rise beside a cafe with vintage lighting will change how this block looks from the sidewalk. If you live near Hyperion and want to talk about how changes like these play out on your own street, Sarah Minka Jackson follows this stretch of Silver Lake closely and is happy to walk the block with you. Let's Connect.