Intelligentsia Coffee Shoal Creek Coffeebar
Coffee shop · Downtown ·
Daily roasted brews in a contemporary setting with local pastries
Daily roasted brews in a contemporary setting with local pastries
"Intelligentsia's Sunset Junction location is where several crowds intersect. On weekdays, this mosaic-tiled cafe in Silver Lake doubles as a workspace for screenwriters and graphic designers suffering from acute caffeine dependency. Set up shop at the counter as you furiously reply to Slack messages and order your third americano of the morning. Come weekends, there's a noticeable shift. Intelligentsia turns into the official sponsor of the Adorable Dog Olympics, where hot people who unironically wear trucker hats show up for cold brew and an excuse to show off Rico, their Shiba Inu. If you have a cute dog, and an Instagram account for them, you'll fit right in." - Sylvio Martins
"I noted that third-wave coffee roasters Intelligentsia Coffee opened their first Texas cafe in the summer of 2019." - Nadia Chaudhury
"James McLaughlin is the president and CEO of Chicago-based Intelligentsia Coffee, which operates six local shops as well as spots in Los Angeles, Boston, New York City, and Austin, Texas. The company recently reopened a handful of locations for to-go service, including two in Chicago." - Naomi Waxman
"The Chicago-based coffee chain made its way into Austin for its first-ever Texas cafe right in the downtown area." - Tom Thornton
"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
