Sunset Junction caffeine high

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Yesterday while I was waiting for my car to be tuned up at a garage near the Cheese Store of Silver Lake, I went to check out the construction site that will be the new Intelligentsia coffee store. From a hole in the ground has sprung what looks like the makings of a terrific little cafe. High arched doors, lots of light, spitting distance from the glorious wheels and ash of the cheeses next door. Since they won’t open for another few weeks at least, I crossed the street to Pazzo Gelato, which has been serving Intelligentsia coffee (and gelato flavors made from it) since it opened last summer. While Mark, one of Pazzo’s four owners, pulled me an espresso, he mentioned that he was meeting later that evening with the Intelligentsia folks about a new line of coffee sorbetti. Depending on which lots of coffee he likes best, he’s planning on making a variety of them, each from a different single-origin lot of coffee. Sorbetto, he said, works better than gelato: a cleaner flavor, no milk to get in the way. On the way out, I got a cup of marzipan gelato, smooth and rich and redolent of the year I spent loitering around Lubeck, Germany, as a teenager. Sublime.

-- Amy Scattergood