Intelligentsia’s new shop in Venice Beach is going to introduce some radical new concepts. Tucked way at the end of Food GPS’s latest report, Kyle casually alludes to the chance they may not be carrying decaffeinated coffee there. I’ve sort of fantasized about a bar that doesn’t offer decafs (at the very least, not prepared as espresso); and ever since Alex Switzer mentioned something about it to me back in 2007, I’ve suspected that Intelligentsia might be the first ones to try it.

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