The Eastside Café is an autonomous community organization founded in 2004 in the United States, located in El Sereno, Los Angeles, California.

The collective is run by El Sereno residents and is inspired by the Zapatista movement, which sought the rights and autonomy of indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico in the early 1990s.

[4][5] At first, the Eastside Café consisted of community meetings, called platicas, in the Flores home, where interested parties could discuss how the future organization could remain autonomous and without colonizing influence.

[1] The band Las Cafeteras got their start at the Eastside Café, citing the organization's weekly son jarocho classes as an important part of their musical formation.

[5] The band learned to play instruments central to the son jarocho Afro-Mexican folk music style from Veracruz, Mexico - including the jarana, requinto, quijada, and tarima.