31 March, 2011

my old friend


this week is LA week on my blog! ha! i blogged about a trip to LA yesterday, this post is about LA, and there's another one coming later today.

you'd think we should just move there, wouldn't you??

...we're thinking about it. :)

anyway, you all know that i'm obsessed with a coffee. as a coffee fiend, i HAD to try intelligentsia. so a few weeks ago, levi and i checked out their pasadena café.

we went on a sunday, so it was craaaaaazzzzaaayy, but they totally lived up to the hype.

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we shared french toast with berry syrup, grapefruit, blackberries, and bacon. it was DELICIOUS.


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going.

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going.

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gone.


we each had a macchiato and shared a mocha.

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i was pretty cracked out...but very happy.


intelligentsia knows what they're doing. they treat coffee with absolute respect. it was fantastically pretentious!

their espresso almost tastes like they don't use water. the flavor is so pure. does that even make sense?

i wouldn't mind moving just to be closer to one of their locations...

10 comments:

  1. I know exactly what you mean about the "espresso sans water" thing. In my opinion, coffee shouldn't be shiny like water. It should be opaque like delicious, heaven-sent, caffeinated mud :)

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  2. Oh my, look at the french toast. I just made some for breakfast and finished inhaling it about 10 minutes ago..but it didn't look that good!

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  3. I believe there is an Intelligentsia in Silverlake too! If its not an Intelligentsia they totally use there beans! Its in this really cool vine covered building. Its sooo beautiful and its right in front of the Silverlake cheese shop! yummers.

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  4. hahah "fantastically pretentious" - i love it!

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  5. officially hungry now. those french toast look delicious!

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  6. Oh yum! That french toast looks amazing!! You're making me hungry now! ;)

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  7. aiya! I'm so hungry now from this post and the last one! (and i really want to come try some paulette's macarons...so sad i live on the opposite side of the country!)

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  8. You always eat the bust food. That french toast looks so yummy!

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  9. i love their table tops with that polished crushed glass!

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  10. that grapefruit french toast looks like heaven!

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