Committed
It’s been awhile and I’ve decided that I will commit to posting at least once a week, even if it is brief.
Newest, Latest
Back again is Panama Hacienda La Esmeralda, Geisha Jaramillo Especial. This coffee is amazingly delicate and floral: distinctly jasmine and honeylike, with crisp citrus, light chocolate, and lavender notes. We’re serving 12 ounce Clover brews for the reasonable price of $7. Also new to our Autumn menu is El Otono B
A Late Summer’s Night Dream
It’s night, and I am sitting on the front porch of my house in Chicago as summer breathes a few final breaths, with crickets chirping and the air still sweet and sultry, yet winking at autumn.
Tacos taste better in LA than Chicago
Greetings from Los Angeles, where our gas meter was installed and activated earlier this week... and there was much rejoicing!
Taste the World’s Most Award-Winning Coffee at Intelligentsia’s Los Angeles Cafe
Last May, Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea purchased an auction lot of Hacienda la Esmeralda's famed Geisha coffee. This exquisite offering won Best of Panama in 2004, 2005, 2006, and again this year in 2007 and garnered $130 per pound, the highest amount ever paid for coffee at auction. On November 15th, Los Angelenos will have a chance to taste this storied brew and judge for themselves whether it measures up.
(Un)Heralded Angel(s)
A few words of praise for those who do not often get it: those that work behind the scenes, setting the stage for others to be successful, out of the limelight, sometimes from early morning darkness to late night darkness, tirelessly. You see these folks, but they make little noise about anything, they don’t complain, they just do whatever takes to get the job done.
Greetings from Silver Lake
We're close. Finally. Our new LA café is on the verge of opening after many months of construction delays, inspection hold-ups, red tape and the usual fine-tuning that is needed to mediate the transition from conceptual plans to physical reality. It has been a long time coming, but the excitement here has become more palpable as the new staff can now see the tunnel's end.