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Intelligentsia plans a groundbreaking coffee bar in Venice Beach

Posted by on 07 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew

Yesterday’s Chicago Tribune reported on a curious coffee bar concept planned for Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea‘s latest location, currently under construction in Los Angeles’ Venice Beach. The concept includes featuring five different stations where five separate baristas personally attend to each customer, individually catering to their unique coffee whims: Intelligentsia plans a groundbreaking coffee bar [...]

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Is “Third Wave” just shorthand for the “tyranny of the barista”?

Posted by on 22 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Barista, Fair Trade, Quality Issues

Now that we’ve caught your attention with the sensationalist title, we’ve had a thought that has been milling around in our heads for quite a while. All this talk about a supposed Third Wave in quality coffee (it truly is that hard for us to restrain our contempt for that term) seems to have coincided [...]

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