Intelligentsia Coffee Shoal Creek Coffeebar

Chicago Coffee Shop Intelligentsia’s First Texas Cafe Opens in Austin | Eater Austin

"Opening on Wednesday, August 21 at 607 West Third Street within the Third + Shoal building in downtown Austin, Intelligentsia Coffee will be the Chicago-based third-wave roaster’s first-ever Texas cafe. The 30-seat coffee bar, open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., was designed by Scott Magic using Texas materials: a horseshoe-shaped bar of gray Texas Lueders limestone and a giant brick mural by Erin Curtis. The menu will feature tapped coffee and tea drinks—including a nitro matcha oat milk latte—plus cold coffee, iced tea, daily-changing single-origin beans, espresso drinks, and teas; there’s also an Austin-specific Roadrunner made with cold coffee, fresh grapefruit juice, and soda poured over ice. Austin bakeries Easy Tiger and Sour Duck Market will supply croissants, danishes, and cookies, and on opening day the cafe will host giveaways from 7 a.m. to noon including a year of free coffee, chocolates, and tickets to the Trans-Pecos Festival in Marfa. Intelligentsia’s co-founders Doug Zell and Emily Mange opened the first cafe in Chicago in 1995 and later expanded to Los Angeles and New York, with a 2015 deal involving Peet’s Coffee contributing to further expansion into Boston." - Nadia Chaudhury