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Intelligentsia Coffee coming to Center City

POSTED: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 9:16 PM

Filed Under: Coffee | Food and Sports | Openings

Stopped into the awesome Bodhi Coffee (410 S. Second St.) just now and ran into Evan Inatome (right), who is in the early stages of setting up a café called Elixr in the long-vacant space that was last Hausbrandt (207 S. 15th St.). He was hooking up with some barista buddies to host an informal "cupping" (coffee tasting) for three international varietals from the lauded Chicago supplier Intelligentsia, whose roasts he'll use at the shop. (For the record, Bodhi rocks Stumptown.) The space is in good shape, Inatome says, but he plans on making a number of cosmetic changes; he hasn't landed on a food/baked-good approach just yet. Opening should be in the next few months. Inatome's brother-in-law is Eagles O-lineman and food freak Winston Justice (check out this vid of #74 making maki with Zama Tanaka), who will be involved with the café, particularly in a charitable sense for example, Inatome and Justice plan on launching a bottled water line to be carried at Elixr, the sales of which will benefit clean-water initiatives in countries like Haiti.

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Posted 2010-09-20 12:06:50

It's so cool to see intelligentsia coffee become more popular in other cities outside of Chicago.

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