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After Sunset Junction
Intelligentsia Coffee, the much esteemed roaster from Chicago, moved into Silver Lake this weekend just in time for the Sunset Junction Festival, which gave it perhaps the biggest opening weekend a coffee shop has ever enjoyed (or not enjoyed: “Everyone wanted iced drinks,” sniffed the baristas about the weekend’s hipster revelers). Now that the hubbub is over, the highly trained, highly motivated staffers were able for the first time Monday to concentrate on what they do best, which is, obviously, crafting coffee. These people know their stuff, and know how to educate a palate.
When I announced myself as a coffee newbie, one of the baristas recommended a latte with agave syrup. So mysterious, and so right. It balanced out the bitterness I don’t like without getting overly sweet like a mocha. But then, the barista is from Seattle. They’re so authentic at Intelligentsia! And as if the Northwestern staff wasn’t proof enough, this is what truly blew my mind: students. Actual students, with charts and graphing calculators and anatomy textbooks and highlighters. Not a script in sight. Oh, I am so in love with Intelligentsia.
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