Intelly comes to L.A.
Good news for coffee lovers in L.A. -- Intelligentsia is coming! From a Chicagoist interview with CEO Doug Zell:
Chicagoist: Of all the places to open another café, why Los Angeles?Doug Zell: I think that the food scene is really picking up there. It sort of reminds me of how it was here, five or six years ago. Local chefs there are looking for inspiration and developing new offerings. The culinary community there is in the right place, and I think that having a store where you’re able to buy artisan coffee would be a good complement. We’re opening in a neighborhood called Silverlake, which is, sort of, I guess you can say it was once the Wicker Park of Chicago; there’s a burgeoning food scene in Silverlake, with a gelato shop, a cheese store, a wine shop nearby. All these things are coming together, and we’re really lucky to have found the location that we did.
Full interview here.
[Thanks to Chad Wilcox for the tip.]
